This year number of books were published. Few did touch our heart and few were not worth reading. I sorted out few books based on the number of books selling and reviews of the customer.
This is a overall list of books published this year which you must read
1) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.
But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
2) Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.In his long-awaited return, John Green shares Aza's story with shattering, unflinching clarity.
3) A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's maneuverings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit-and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.
As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords-and hunt for allies in unexpected places.
In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the earth will be painted red as mighty armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy them all.
Origin, Dan Brown
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.†The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.
As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret.
Navigating the dark corridors of hidden
history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy
whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself . . .
and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by
modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that
ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch’s shocking discovery . . . and
the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us.
Origin is stunningly inventive—Dan Brown's most brilliant and
entertaining novel to date.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting
novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson
family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland,
everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of
the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no
one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is
playing by the rules.
Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother –
who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents
a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all
four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries
with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to
upend this carefully ordered community.
When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to
adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically
divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of
Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past.
But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
Little
Fires Everywhere explores the
weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of
motherhood – and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert
disaster.
Little Fires Everywhere is the perfect gift for the holidays!
Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
“The heart of Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing is story—the yearning for a narrative to help us
understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we’ll never fill, the truths that
are failed by words and must be translated through ritual and song...Ward’s writing
throbs with life, grief, and love, and this book is the kind that makes you
ache to return to it.†—Buzzfeed
In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book
Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road
novel into rural twenty-first-century America. An intimate portrait of a family
and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi’s past and present,
examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power—and
limitations—of family bonds.
Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it
means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his
Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding:
his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent
White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the
memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager.
His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and
his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict
with herself and those around her. She is Black and her children’s father is
White. She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own
needs, especially her drug use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by
visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high, Leonie is
embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances.
When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie
packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of
Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is
another thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of
the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something
to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about
love.
Rich with Ward’s distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new
work and an unforgettable family story.
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and
her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi
River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital
one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force.
Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home
Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be
returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the
mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and
brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.
Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and
privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a
federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But
when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a
chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to
take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will
ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption.
Based on one of America's most notorious real-life
scandals--in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption
organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the
country--Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale
reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the
heart never forgets where we belong.
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,†Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
'Leonardo da Vinci' by Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. Now Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life, showing why we have much to learn from him. His combination of science, art, technology and imagination remains an enduring recipe for creativity. So, too, was his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted and at times heretical. His relentless curiosity should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it – to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think differently.
