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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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Daemon
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Daniel Suarez
P.A. Brown
, January 30, 2013
This book and it's sequel, Freedom, is by far the best cyberthriller I've ever read. In fact, I would rate it as the best thriller I've ever read, period. From the first page it is riveting, and the conflicts only increase. Suarez keeps the reader on his toes with twists that I never saw coming. Because of his background, the threat and possibilities laid out in both books is mind boggling. But where so many thrillers have flat, cardboard characters there to perform a role, Suarez's characters are well rounded, flawed and sometimes irremediable, but always interesting. If you only read one thriller this year, this should be the one. Or two, since Daemon and Freedom need to be read in order. This is not a sequel that can be read on its own. Buy it, read it and spread the word.
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Gotham a History of New York City to 1898
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Edwin G Burrows, Mike Wallace
P.A. Brown
, September 05, 2011
This is a fantastic book, with a detailed description of New York City to the time it was New Amsterdam and was little more than a trading post. It contains a number of sketches from each time period discussed. It goes up to 1898, pre-Twentieth Century and it evolved into the city of today. If you have a hankering for an indepth look at the city that never sleeps, you can't go wrong with Gotham.
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Pickpockets Tale The Underworld of Nineteenth Century New York
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Timothy J Gilfoyle
P.A. Brown
, August 15, 2011
This book is a fascinating look into the underworld of New York in the 1800s. an already rich time period no matter how you look at it, but this gives a view of an entire society normally hidden from respectable people's lives. More personal than The Gangs of New York this book follows George Appo from the Tombs to Sing Sing, through opium dens and the streets of Manhattan where he was a successful pickpocket - until he got caught.
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Boulevard
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Stephen Schwartz
P.A. Brown
, March 17, 2011
Boulevard is a stunning debut novel. It fully reflects the dark underworld of a Los Angeles few people see. A world of vice, corruption and dark desires. Boulevard's protagonist is Hayden Glass, an LAPD homicide detective in the elite Robbery Homicide division. He's at the very top, but Glass is a tormented man. Alcoholic cops are a staple of crime fiction. So much so they've become a tired cliche, along with the broken marriage and the ennui that drags these cops down. Schwartz has picked a more interesting vice for his detective. Glass is a sex addict. He craves it 24/7 and is incapable of forming a relationship with a woman. Instead, he picks up the street hookers he should be arresting and uses them to assuage his driving need. It never works and he sinks deeper into his dark world. Then a series of homicides start showing a pattern. There's a serial killer on the loose, but Glass is the only one who can see the pattern. And when it turns out that pattern is linked to Glass himself a harrowing race begins to find this killer before he can destroy Glass's already fragile life.
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L A Rex
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Will Beall
P.A. Brown
, February 08, 2011
Will Beall's vision of Los Angeles is a decidedly dark one. There is nothing pretty about any of the people in this book. The lines between the good guys and the bad guys is razor thin and it's bleeding blue. Some parts of the story toward the end go a little over the top, but Beall succeeds in reining it in, to end on a note that makes me want more. If you like the gritty, dark side of the city of Angels, then this is a must for your library. I love this book and sincerely hope both the movie and the sequel come about.
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American Passage The History of Ellis Island
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Vincent J. Cannato
P.A. Brown
, January 17, 2011
This book takes a wonderful look at the story of immigrants who came to America, both in the 1800s and the early 1900s, first through Castle Garden, then the iconic Ellis Island. The author discusses not only the immigrant journey of who came to America, but the politics that changed to reflect the times and local prejudices. If you've ever wondered what your ancestors went through to get to this country and how they were both revered and reviled in turn, then pick up a copy of this timely book. With all the arguments going on today about immigrants, a look at the same issue in the past is enlightening. I highly recommend this book to those with inquiring minds.
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LA Noir The Struggle for the Soul of Americas Most Seductive City
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John Buntin
P.A. Brown
, January 13, 2011
This is a phenomenal book not only on the dark history of the most enigmatic city in America but also about a police force that has been both the best and the worst in the world. The book chronicles the rise of L.A. and the LAPD through the career of the cop who made the LAPD what it is today -- William H. Parker. Recommended for anyone who loves the city and her police force. It's a story that will make you want to visit the dark angel that is Los Angeles.
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Daemon
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Daniel Suarez
P.A. Brown
, January 13, 2011
This is by far the best techno-thriller I have ever read. Suarez gives a new twist on the evil, self-aware computer so overdone in bad books and movies and takes it to a level beyond anything I've seen before. His characters are riveting and you care for them, and cringe with each new horror visited on them. He kept me guessing right up to the end and I relished every dark step he took me down. That he followed it with an equally exciting conclusion with Freedom TM is just another coup. Don't miss this book. You won't regret it.
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