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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Days Without End
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Sebastian Barry
Steven Hicks
, May 26, 2018
The first thing that will knock you out is a first-person narrator from the mid-19th century in America whose voice is authentic without being a lovable dunce. The story follows two friends from their days as boys donning dresses and dancing in a western saloon to Army service during the Indian Wars and as Union soldiers in the Civil War. Punches are not pulled in a narrative both wildly entertaining and tragically sad. We see America through the eyes of an Irish immigrant who does not flinch in his telling of an America with warts and glory. Our heroes are both ordinary and extraordinary and you will resent anything that gets in the way of finishing this book. It is the best book you have not heard about.
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
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Ronald C. White
Steven Hicks
, April 07, 2017
This is easily the best Biography of Grant to date. It is an excellent assessment of his Civil War success, and what has previously been perceived as his failed presidency. White is not trying to gloss over anything – he looks at all aspects of Grant as a General and as a president and offers fresh, much needed observations. Grant's post-president years are well covered also. White does all of this in one remarkable volume.
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The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel
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Benjamin Black
Steven Hicks
, July 20, 2015
The Black-Eyed Blonde is the latest Phillip Marlowe book but obviously not written by Raymond Chandler. Instead the great john Banville writing as Benjamin Black was commissioned to write it and a fine effort it is. Many will quibble, understandably, but Banville/Black does an admirable job infusing into this character from the past a contemporary sensibility even though it takes place in the 1950’s. The gorgeous Clare Cavendish enters his office, and his fantasy world, and asks him to find a friend who has disappeared. So simple, so incredible. It is a great read and a fun read. Marlowe’s back.
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Gettysburg The Last Invasion
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Allen C. Guelzo
Steven Hicks
, July 19, 2013
This is simply the most insightful book on Gettysburg I have ever read and the best Civil War book since Battle Cry of Freedom by James MePherson. Allen Guelzo's research is so extensive that every aspect is covered especially the controversies. A must for anyone who wants to understand how we got to where we are.
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 4
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Robert A. Caro
Steven Hicks
, January 01, 2013
One of the defining biographies of our time - we are still debating the issues set forth by the Johnson presidency.
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Elegy for April
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Benjamin Black
Steven Hicks
, January 19, 2012
The third in the Quirke series by Benjamin Black - John Banville - is a brilliant, readable and literate mystery. Black/Banville explores church and family and tells a compelling story along the way while keeping us turning the pages as though it were a standard mystery. This has become my favorite mystery series and was my introduction to the writing of John Banville.
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One Minute to Midnight Kennedy Khrushchev & Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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Michael Dobbs
Steven Hicks
, September 20, 2011
Comprehensive look at the closest we ever came to near total destruction. Hotheads on both sides of the Atlantic! More than 1200 nukes deployed! Our hero has to find out how to save the world! No way you will find a thriller any better than this, and it's all true.
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White Teeth
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Zadie Smith
Steven Hicks
, January 15, 2010
White Teeth unknowingly prepared us for the last decade like no other book. Among other things it is a story of assimilation. And to highlight the differences of England's many cultures (as well as America's) we watch in disbelief at the choice made by a father for his child without the mother's knowledge that explained Islam to me better than anything else I could possibly read. But it takes a while to get there and in the meantime you meet Archie Jones, a blue-collar Brit, and his friend, Samad Iqbal, a Muslim waiter. They met in the English army in WWII and we not only see them and their gloriously mixed families in a contemporary setting but in flashbacks we share a secret from their past together in the war. The opening chapter where Archie sits contemplating suicide and makes the final decision based on the flip of a coin is one of the funniest I have ever read. This is an astonishing novel that veers from comedy to drama and order to chaos seamlessly. It has made me a Zadie Smith fan forever.
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