Washington post 10 best books

But there is a lot more than monuments, official buildings and museums: its varied neighbourhoods and diversity of cultures make a fascinating mix, a side often forgotten but not less worth visiting. DC-based literature is, in fact, not particularly urban, wrote Charlotte Jones in her blogpost, where she offers really interesting reads for DC-bound travellers. Here is what you had to add. Is your favourite missing? Let us know below the line. If there was a consensus among our readers, that was that George Pelecanos is one of the very best chroniclers of Washington DC. Oranje14 says:.

We stuck to nonfiction and favored those with a business or investment bent. Bill Gates and former President Barack Obama loved it. The New York Times called it one of the 10 best books of , and the Washington Post included it in its list of 50 notable nonfiction books of the year. Her family. The story of the rise and collapse of Theranos makes both the New York Times and Washington Post lists of notable books of the year.

Both intrinsically timeless and timely, memory shapes who we are and how we think of the world around us. But what happens when catastrophe strikes and remembering becomes difficult? How do we reckon with forgetting, which can come as a welcome relief in times of crisis? And what do we do when collective and personal memory collide? Many of the characters in and authors of the best books of this month are faced with these poignant questions. And from award-winning writers including Yoko Ogawa and Ibram X.