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The book became popular, making the New York Times Best Seller list. The sense of suspense in the novel comes from whether Nick Dunne is responsible for the disappearance of his wife Amy. Critics acclaimed the book for its use of unreliable narration, plot twists, and suspense.
The book spent 47 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and was the No. 1 novel of 1991. [ 5 ] Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times wrote that "Mr. Grisham, a criminal defense attorney, writes with such relish about the firm's devious legal practices that his novel might be taken as a how-to manual for ambitious tax-law students."
Inspiration is also adopted from medieval historian Ibn Khaldun's cyclical history and his dynastic concept in North Africa, hinted at by Herbert's reference to Khaldun's book Kitāb al-ʿibar ("The Book of Lessons"). The fictionalized version of the "Kitab al-ibar" in Dune is a combination of a Fremen religious manual and a desert survival book.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
In a Washington Post interview, writer Roxane Gay called Pachinko her favorite book of 2017. [20] The book was named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017. [21] In 2024, the New York Times named Pachinko the 15th best book of the 21st century. [22] Pachinko was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. [23]
Dark Matter is a thriller science fiction novel by American writer Blake Crouch, first published in the United States in July 2016 by the Crown Publishing Group.The story is about a physicist who is kidnapped and sent to a parallel universe in which another version of his life unfolds because of a different choice he made fifteen years prior.
Small Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press.In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, [1] and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize [2] and the Booker Prize. [3]