Pessoal segue abaixo a lista dos 100 (104) livros do ano escolhidos pelo New york Times. Infelizmente ela está em inglês =\
ALIF
THE UNSEEN. By G. Willow Wilson. (Grove, $25.) A young hacker on
the run in the Mideast is the protagonist of this imaginative first novel.
ALMOST
NEVER. By Daniel Sada. Translated by Katherine Silver. (Graywolf,
paper, $16.) In this glorious satire of machismo, a Mexican agronomist
simultaneously pursues a prostitute and an upright woman.
AN
AMERICAN SPY. By Olen Steinhauer. (Minotaur, $25.99.) In a novel
vividly evoking the multilayered world of espionage, Steinhauer’s hero fights
back when his C.I.A. unit is nearly destroyed.
ARCADIA. By
Lauren Groff. (Voice/Hyperion, $25.99.)Groff’s lush and visual second novel
begins at a rural commune, and links that utopian past to a dystopian,
post-global-warming future.
AT
LAST. By Edward St. Aubyn. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) The
final and most meditative of St. Aubyn’s brilliant Patrick Melrose novels is
full of precise observations and glistening turns of phrase.
BEAUTIFUL
RUINS. By Jess Walter. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.) Walter’s
witty sixth novel, set largely in Hollywood, reveals an American landscape of
vice, addiction, loss and disappointed hopes.
BILLY
LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK. By Ben Fountain. (Ecco/HarperCollins,
$25.99.) The survivors of a fierce firefight in Iraq are whisked stateside
for a brief victory tour in this satirical novel.
BLASPHEMY. By
Sherman Alexie. (Grove, $27.) The best stories in Alexie’s collection of
new and selected works are moving and funny, bringing together the embittered
critic and the yearning dreamer.
THE
BOOK OF MISCHIEF: New and Selected Stories. By Steve Stern. (Graywolf,
$26.) Jewish immigrant lives observed with effusive nostalgia.
BRING
UP THE BODIES. By Hilary Mantel. (Macrae/Holt, $28.) Mantel’s
sequel to “Wolf Hall” traces the fall of Anne Boleyn, and makes the familiar
story fascinating and suspenseful again.
BUILDING
STORIES. By Chris Ware. (Pantheon, $50.) A big, sturdy box
containing hard-bound volumes, pamphlets and a tabloid houses Ware’s demanding,
melancholy and magnificent graphic novel about the inhabitants of a Chicago
building.
BY
BLOOD. By Ellen Ullman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) This
smart, slippery novel is a narrative striptease, as a professor listens in on
the sessions between the therapist next door and her patients.
CANADA. By
Richard Ford. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.99.) A boy whose parents rob a
bank in North Dakota in 1960 takes refuge across the border in this mesmerizing
novel, driven by fully realized characters and an accomplished prose style.
CARRY
THE ONE. By Carol Anshaw. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) Anshaw
pays close attention to the lives of a group of friends bound together by a
fatal accident in this wry, humane novel, her fourth.
CITY
OF BOHANE. By Kevin Barry. (Graywolf, $25.) Somewhere in Ireland
in 2053, people are haunted by a “lost time,” when something calamitous
happened, and hope to reclaim the past. Barry’s extraordinary, exuberant first
novel is full of inventive language.
COLLECTED
POEMS. By Jack Gilbert. (Knopf, $35.) In orderly free verse
constructions, Gilbert deals plainly with grief, love, marriage, betrayal and
lust.
DEAR
LIFE: Stories. By Alice Munro. (Knopf, $26.95.) This volume
offers further proof of Munro’s mastery, and shows her striking out in the
direction of a new, late style that sums up her whole career.
THE
DEVIL IN SILVER. By Victor LaValle. (Spiegel & Grau, $27.) LaValle’s
culturally observant third novel is set in a shabby urban mental hospital.
ENCHANTMENTS. By
Kathryn Harrison. (Random House, $27.) Harrison’s splendid and surprising
novel of late imperial Russia centers on Rasputin’s daughter Masha and the
hemophiliac czarevitch Alyosha.
FLIGHT
BEHAVIOR. By Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.) An
Appalachian woman becomes involved in an effort to save monarch butterflies in
this brave and majestic novel.
FOBBIT. By
David Abrams. (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, paper, $15.) Clerks, cooks
and lawyers at a forward operating base in Iraq populate this first novel.
THE
FORGETTING TREE. By Tatjana Soli. (St. Martin’s, $25.99.) In
Soli’s haunting second novel, a mysterious Caribbean woman cares for a cancer
patient on an isolated California ranch.
GATHERING
OF WATERS. By Bernice L. McFadden. (Akashic, $24.95.) Three
generations of black women confront floods and murder in Mississippi.
GODS
WITHOUT MEN. By Hari Kunzru. (Knopf, $26.95.) Related stories,
spanning centuries and continents, and all tethered to a desert rock formation,
emphasize interconnectivity across time and space in Kunzru’s relentlessly
modern fourth novel.
HHhH. By
Laurent Binet. Translated by Sam Taylor. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.)This
gripping novel examines both the killing of an SS general in Prague in 1942 and
Binet’s experience in writing about it.
A
HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. By Dave Eggers. (McSweeney’s, $25.) Eggers’s
novel is a haunting and supremely readable parable of America in the global
economy, a nostalgic lament for a time when life had stakes and people worked
with their hands.
HOME. By
Toni Morrison. (Knopf, $24.) A black Korean War veteran, discharged from
an integrated Army into a segregated homeland, makes a reluctant journey back
to Georgia in a novel engaged with themes that have long haunted Morrison.
HOPE:
A TRAGEDY. By Shalom Auslander. (Riverhead, $26.95.) Hilarity
alternates with pain in this novel about a Jewish man seeking peace in upstate
New York who discovers Anne Frank in his attic.
HOW
SHOULD A PERSON BE? By Sheila Heti. (Holt, $25.) The narrator
(also named Sheila) and her friends try to answer the question in this novel’s
title.
IN
ONE PERSON. By John Irving. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) Irving’s
funny, risky new novel about an aspiring writer struggling with his sexuality
examines what happens when we face our desires honestly.
A
LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME. By Wiley Cash. (Morrow/HarperCollins,
$24.99.) An evil pastor dominates Cash’s mesmerizing first novel.
MARRIED
LOVE: And Other Stories. By Tessa Hadley. (Harper Perennial, paper,
$14.99.) Hadley’s understatedly beautiful collection is filled with
exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class.
NW. By
Zadie Smith. (Penguin Press, $26.95.) The lives of two friends
who grew up in a northwest London housing project diverge, illuminating
questions of race, class, sexual identity and personal choice, in Smith’s
energetic modernist novel.
ON
THE SPECTRUM OF POSSIBLE DEATHS. By Lucia Perillo. (Copper Canyon,
$22.) Taut, lucid poems filled with complex emotional reflection.
PURE. By
Julianna Baggott. (Grand Central, $25.99.) Children battle for the
planet’s redemption in this precisely written postapocalyptic adventure story.
THE
RIGHT-HAND SHORE. By Christopher Tilghman. (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, $27.) A dark, magisterial novel set on a Chesapeake Bay estate.
THE
ROUND HOUSE. By Louise Erdrich. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) In
this novel, an American
Indian family faces the ramifications of a vicious
crime.
SALVAGE
THE BONES. By Jesmyn Ward. (Bloomsbury, $24.) A pregnant
15-year-old and her family await Hurricane Katrina in this lushly written novel.
SAN
MIGUEL. By T. Coraghessan Boyle. (Viking, $27.95.) Two utopians
from different eras establish private idylls on California’s desolate Channel
Islands; this novel preserves their tantalizing dreams.
SHINE
SHINE SHINE. By Lydia Netzer. (St. Martin’s, $24.99.) This
thought-provoking debut novel presents a geeky astronaut and his pregnant wife.
SHOUT
HER LOVELY NAME. By Natalie Serber. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.)The
stories in Serber’s first collection are smart and nuanced.
SILENT
HOUSE. By Orhan Pamuk. Translated by Robert Finn. (Knopf, $26.95.) A
family is a microcosm of a country on the verge of a coup in this intense,
foreboding novel, first published in Turkey in 1983.
THE
STARBOARD SEA. By Amber Dermont. (St. Martin’s, $24.99.) Dermont’s
captivating debut novel, whose narrator is a boarding school student and a
sailor, takes pleasure in the sea and in the exhilarating freedom of being
young.
SWEET
TOOTH. By Ian McEwan. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $26.95.) The true
subject of this smart and tricky novel, set inside a cold war espionage
operation, is the border between make-believe and reality.
SWIMMING
HOME. By Deborah Levy. (Bloomsbury, paper, $14.) In this spare,
disturbing and frequently funny novel, a troubled young woman tests the
marriages of two couples.
TELEGRAPH
AVENUE. By Michael Chabon. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.)Chabon’s
rich comic novel about fathers and sons in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif.,
juggles multiple plots and mounds of pop culture references in astonishing
prose.
THE
TESTAMENT OF MARY. By Colm Toibin. (Scribner, $19.99.) This
beautiful work takes power from the surprises of its language and its almost
shocking characterization of Mary, mother of Jesus.
THIS
IS HOW YOU LOSE HER. By Junot Díaz. (Riverhead, $26.95.) The stories
in this collection are about love, but they’re also about the undertow of
family history and cultural mores, presented in Díaz’s exciting, irresistible
and entertaining prose.
THREE
STRONG WOMEN. By Marie NDiaye. Translated by John Fletcher. (Knopf,
$25.95.) In loosely linked narratives, three women from Senegal struggle
with fathers and husbands in France. This subtle, hypnotic novel won the Prix
Goncourt in 2009.
TOBY’S
ROOM. By Pat Barker. (Doubleday, $25.95.) This novel, a
sequel to “Life Class,” delves further into the lives of an English family torn
apart by World War I.
WATERGATE. By
Thomas Mallon. (Pantheon, $26.95.) This novelistic reimagining of the
“third-rate burglary” proposes surprising motives for the break-in and the
18-minute gap, and has a sympathetic Nixon.
WHAT
WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK: Stories.By Nathan Englander.
(Knopf, $24.95.) Englander tackles large questions of morality and history
in a masterly collection that manages to be both insightful and uproarious.
THE
YELLOW BIRDS. By Kevin Powers. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) A
young private and his platoon struggle through the war in Iraq but find no
peace at home in this powerful and moving first novel about the frailty of man
and the brutality of war.
NONFICTION
ALL
WE KNOW: Three Lives. By Lisa Cohen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
$30.) The vanished world of midcentury upper-class lesbians is portrayed
as beguiling, its inhabitants members of a stylish club.
AMERICAN
TAPESTRY: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle
Obama. By Rachel L. Swarns. (Amistad/HarperCollins, $27.99.) A
Times reporter’s deeply researched chronicle of several generations of Mrs.
Obama’s family.
AMERICAN
TRIUMVIRATE: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf. By
James Dodson. (Knopf, $28.95.) The author evokes an era when the game was
more vivid and less corporate than it seems now.
ARE
YOU MY MOTHER? A Comic Drama. By Alison Bechdel. (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, $22.) Bechdel’s engaging, original graphic memoir explores her
troubled relationship with her distant mother.
BARACK
OBAMA: The Story. By David Maraniss. (Simon & Schuster, $32.50.) This
huge and absorbing new biography, full of previously unexplored detail, shows
that Obama’s saga is more surprising and gripping than the version we’re
familiar with.
BEHIND
THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. By
Katherine Boo. (Random House, $27.) This extraordinary moral inquiry into
life in an Indian slum shows the human costs exacted by a brutal social
Darwinism.
BELZONI:
The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate. By Ivor Noël Hume. (University
of Virginia, $34.95.) The fascinating tale of the 19th-century Italian
monk, a “notorious tomb robber,” who gathered archaeological treasures in Egypt
while crunching bones underfoot.
THE
BLACK COUNT: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By
Tom Reiss. (Crown, $27.) The first Alexandre Dumas, a mixed-race general
of the French Revolution, is the subject of this imaginative biography.
BREASTS:
A Natural and Unnatural History. By Florence Williams. (Norton,
$25.95.) Williams’s environmental call to arms deplores chemicals in
breast milk and the vogue for silicone implants.
COMING
APART: The State of White America, 1960-2010. By Charles Murray.
(Crown Forum, $27.) The author of “The Bell Curve” warns that the white
working class has abandoned the “founding virtues.”
DARWIN’S
GHOSTS: The Secret History of Evolution. By Rebecca Stott. (Spiegel
& Grau, $27.) Stott’s lively, original history of evolutionary ideas
flows easily across continents and centuries.
A
DISPOSITION TO BE RICH: How a Small-Town Preacher’s Son Ruined an American
President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man
in the United States. By Geoffrey C. Ward. (Knopf, $28.95.) The
author’s ancestor was the bane of Ulysses S. Grant.
FAR
FROM THE TREE: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. By
Andrew Solomon. (Scribner, $37.50.) This passionate and affecting work
about what it means to be a parent is based on interviews with families of
“exceptional” children.
FLAGRANT
CONDUCT. The Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized
Gay Americans. By Dale Carpenter. (Norton, $29.95.)Carpenter
stirringly describes the 2003 Supreme Court decision that overturned the Texas
sodomy law.
THE
FOLLY OF FOOLS: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. By
Robert Trivers. (Basic Books, $28.) An intriguing argument that deceit is
a beneficial evolutionary “deep feature” of life.
THE
GREY ALBUM: On the Blackness of Blackness. By Kevin Young. (Graywolf,
paper, $25.) A poet’s lively account of the central place of the trickster
figure in black American culture could have been called “How Blacks Invented
America.”
HAITI:
The Aftershocks of History. By Laurent Dubois. (Metropolitan/Holt,
$32.)Foreign meddling, the lack of a democratic tradition, a humiliating
American occupation and cold-war support of a brutal dictator all figure in a
scholar’s well-written analysis.
HOW
CHILDREN SUCCEED: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. By
Paul Tough. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27.) Noncognitive skills like
persistence and self-control are more crucial to success than sheer brainpower,
Tough maintains.
HOW
MUSIC WORKS. By David Byrne. (McSweeney’s, $32.) This guidebook
also explores the eccentric rock star’s personal and professional experience.
IRON
CURTAIN: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. By Anne Applebaum.
(Doubleday, $35.) An overwhelming and convincing account of the Soviet
push to colonize Eastern Europe after World War II.
KAYAK
MORNING: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats. By Roger
Rosenblatt.
(Ecco/HarperCollins, paper, $13.99.) This thoughtful
meditation on the evolution of grief over time asks the big questions.
LINCOLN’S
CODE: The Laws of War in American History. By John Fabian Witt. (Free
Press, $32.) A tension between humanitarianism and righteousness has
shaped America’s rules of warfare.
LITTLE
AMERICA: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. By Rajiv
Chandrasekaran. (Knopf, $27.95.) A beautifully written and deeply reported
account of America’s troubled involvement in Afghanistan.
MEMOIR
OF A DEBULKED WOMAN: Enduring Ovarian Cancer. By Susan Gubar. (Norton,
$24.95.) A feminist scholar recounts her experience and criticizes the
medical treatment of a frightening disease in a voice that is straightforward
and incredibly brave.
MY
POETS. By Maureen N. McLane. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Part
memoir and part criticism, this friendly book includes essays on poets
canonical and contemporary, as well as lineated poem-games.
THE
OBAMAS. By Jodi Kantor. (Little, Brown, $29.99.) Michelle Obama
sets the tone and tempo of the current White House, Kantor argues in this
admiring account, full of colorful insider anecdotes.
ODDLY
NORMAL: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms With His
Sexuality. By John Schwartz. (Gotham, $26.) A Times reporter’s
deeply affecting account of his son’s coming out also reviews research on the
experience of LGBT kids.
ON
A FARTHER SHORE: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. By William
Souder. (Crown, $30.) An absorbing biography of the pioneering
environmental writer on the 50th anniversary of “Silent Spring.”
ON
SAUDI ARABIA: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines — and Future. By
Karen Elliott House. (Knopf, $28.95.) A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
unveils this inscrutable country, comparing its calcified regime to the Soviet
Union in its final days.
THE
ONE: The Life and Music of James Brown. By RJ Smith. (Gotham, $27.50.)Smith
argues that Brown was the most significant modern American musician in terms of
style, messaging, rhythm and originality.
THE
PASSAGE OF POWER: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. By Robert A. Caro.
(Knopf, $35.) The fourth volume of Caro’s magisterial work spans the five
years that end shortly after Kennedy’s assassination, as Johnson prepares to
push for a civil rights act.
THE
PATRIARCH: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. By
David Nasaw. (Penguin Press, $40.) This riveting history captures the
sweep of Kennedy’s life — as Wall Street speculator, moviemaker, ambassador and
dynastic founder.
PEOPLE
WHO EAT DARKNESS: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets
of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up. By Richard Lloyd Parry.
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, paper, $16.) An evenhanded investigation of
a murder.
RED
BRICK, BLACK MOUNTAIN, WHITE CLAY: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival. By
Christopher Benfey. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) Mixing memoir, family saga,
travelogue and cultural history.
RULE
AND RUIN. The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican
Party: From Eisenhower to the Tea Party. By Geoffrey Kabaservice.
(Oxford University, $29.95.) Pragmatic Republicanism was hardier than we
remember, Kabaservice argues.
SAUL
STEINBERG: A Biography. By Deirdre Bair. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
$40.)A gripping and revelatory biography of the eminent cartoonist.
SHOOTING
VICTORIA: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy. By
Paul Thomas Murphy. (Pegasus, $35.) An uninhibited and learned account of
the attempts on the life of Queen Victoria, which only increased her
popularity.
SHORT
NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward
Curtis. By Timothy Egan. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28.) A deft
portrait of the man who made memorable photographs of American Indians.
THE
SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH. By Edward O. Wilson. (Norton, $27.95.) The
evolutionary biologist explores the strange kinship between humans and some
insects.
SOMETIMES
THERE IS A VOID: Memoirs of an Outsider. By Zakes Mda. (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, $35.) The South African novelist and playwright absorbingly
illuminates his wide, worldly life.
SPILLOVER:
Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. By David Quammen.
(Norton, $28.95.) Quammen’s meaty, sprawling book chronicles his
globe-trotting scientific adventures and warns against animal microbes spilling
over into people.
THE
TASTE OF WAR: World War II and the Battle for Food. By Lizzie Collingham.
(Penguin Press, $36.) Collingham argues that food needs contributed to the
war’s origins, strategy, outcome and aftermath.
THOMAS
JEFFERSON: The Art of Power. By Jon Meacham. (Random House, $35.) This
readable and well-researched life celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical
politician, unafraid to wield power even when it conflicted with his
small-government views.
VICTORY:
The Triumphant Gay Revolution. By Linda Hirshman. (Harper/HarperCollins,
$27.99.) Written with knowing finesse, this expansive history of gay
rights from the early 20th century to the present draws on archives and
interviews.
WHEN
GOD TALKS BACK: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship With God. By
T. M. Luhrmann. (Knopf, $28.95.) Evangelicals believe that God speaks to
them personally because they hone the skill of prayer, this insightful study
argues.
WHY
BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? By Jeanette Winterson. (Grove,
$25.)
Winterson’s unconventional and winning memoir wrings humor from
adversity as it describes her upbringing by a wildly deranged mother.
WHY
DOES THE WORLD EXIST? An Existential Detective Story. By Jim Holt.
(Liveright/Norton, $27.95.) An elegant and witty writer converses with
philosophers and cosmologists who ponder why there is something rather than
nothing.
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