What will you be reading in 2016? Bookforces have some ideas and we share our top picks from this year’s literary field. We have open up this article for comments, use it if you want to give feedback or recommend a book that you were reading this year.
Robert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history.
Someone Like Me centers on Graham Boyce, an FBI agent who is depressed. To lift his spirits he goes out and is social. He feels rejected. During that night, he leaves the restaurant for a walk to clear his head. He is being followed and realize with astonishment, that the man that follows him looks familiar to him or, more precisely, that man looks exactly like him. He feels threaten and fears for his life. Against his own best judgment, Boyce decides to follow his double through the night. What happens next is a wonderfully twisted reflection of personality and uniqueness.
In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project —to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The photos he took and the accompanying interviews became the blog Humans of New York. In the first three years, his audience steadily grew from a few hundred to over one million.
Gods of Asgard is a magnificent reiterating of the base Mythology of the Gods, like Odin, Thor and Loki, and the Nine Realms. It starts from the Creation of the Cosmos, the World of Asgard, the Galactic Throne all the way through all Gods and Goddesses and the saga behind them. Gods of Asgard is written with a modern touch placing Asgard and the Realms into the Cosmos.
Join Butch, Bill, Brian and Joe on a summer vacation at Camp Abenaki. Four boys that meet on the first day of summer camp and in the days that follow, they become friends. Together, they will discover strength, encounter challenges, endure loss, build trust, and open their hearts. In this moving novel, author Jack Hall traces their unforgettable journey—full of tests and trials—as four boys discover the important bond that will last a lifetime.
Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman—whose doctor says she has one year to live.She replies, “We’ll see.” Her sudden recovery astonishes medical science.
An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. But save her from what, from whom? And who is Ashley Bell? Where is she?