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Before we log off for the holidays, we had to do one more round of staff picks. After asking the scrappy Melville House team what books they’d recommend to readers that weRead more »

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”Those who want to try to understand Trump’s followers and what motivates them will find it important and alarming.” The Washington Post on Authoritarian Nightmare

“Nimble and persuasive … This book is refreshing and necessary.” —The New York Times on The Tangled Web We Weave

“A rueful, engaging discussion of the internet’s problematic centrality to these difficult times.” —Kirkus on The Tangled Web We Weave

“Vivid . . . well-written . . . Highlights in bracing clarity one town’s reckoning with a monstrous act.” —Publishers Weekly on The Ancient Hours

“Elliott perfectly captures the modern indigenous experience … a gripping read.”Vogue, on A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

“This quietly brilliant book is as funny as it is wise, as tender as it is ground-breaking.  Rónán Hession mines for gold in the modest lives and ordinary friendships that might appear unpromising to another writer, and my goodness, he finds it. It is also a happy book—and we need those.” —Diane Setterfield on Leonard and Hungry Paul 

“This is a magnificent work, a triumphant combination of exhaustive research and fine narrative writing.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin on The Greek Connection

“[An] illuminating and accessible guide to how the Federal Reserve could act to improve the economy and the lives of everyday Americans . . . a lucid and persuasive call for financial reform.” Publishers Weekly on Money from Nothing

“An absolutely riveting novel . . . a rare and precious humanizing of the terrible conflagration in Syria. Eva is a writer of the first order and this is a searing and incredibly important book, storytelling at its best.” — Donal Ryan on City of Sparrows

“Braverman’s poetic, spare writing is perfect for the story, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions and feel their own feelings, especially in all the things left unsaid.” Booklist on The Ballad of Big Feeling

“A convincing and rousing argument about the influence of voters in their 20s and 30s.” —Kirkus on The Kids Are All Left

“Poignant and exquisite … By way of finely crafted vignettes, [Whittet] argues that words and dances, bodies and stories, are inseparable, and the patriarchal web they trap women in can only lead to pain.”The Los Angeles Review of Books on What You Become in Flight

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