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Shōgun is a 1975 historical novel by author James Clavell that chronicles the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). ). Loosely based on actual events and figures, Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restorat
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]
Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine.
Trust was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2022" by The Washington Post [13] and The New York Times. [14] The New Yorker and Esquire included the novel on their lists of the best books of 2022. [15] [16] The novel was also included on a year-end list of books published in 2022 which were "loved" by NPR staff. [17]
The book follows the first-person narrator as he realizes he was the focus of an obsessed stalker who tracks him throughout his childhood. The work was first self-published in paperback on July 11, 2012, through the author's 1000Vultures imprint. The stories were adapted for The NoSleep Podcast's debut season in 2011 and narrated by Sammy Raynor.
The author of the books noted that he saw the episode in his childhood but had forgotten the details. [24] In the dedication page for Uglies, Westerfeld says: "This novel was shaped by a series of e-mail exchanges between me and Ted Chiang about his story "Liking What You See: A Documentary". His input on the manuscript was also invaluable."
The novel's working title, Gypsy Pie, became the name of the book's 27th chapter. [1] Thinner was published in November 1984 as the fifth book by Richard Bachman. It was Bachman's first book to be published in hardcover. In May of that year, the book was presented at the American Booksellers Association Convention as a featured title. The novel ...
It is the first book in the Foundation Trilogy (which later expanded into the Foundation series). Foundation is a cycle of five interrelated short stories, first published as a single book by Gnome Press in 1951. Collectively they tell the early story of the Foundation, an institute founded by psychohistorian Hari Seldon to preserve the best of ...