Very impressive -- our classmates have written three books that made it on the New York Times list of Top 100 Books of 2021: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/22/books/notable-books.html
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Set in the 1950s, Towles’s exhilarating novel follows four boys on a trip across America, from rural Nebraska to the skyscrapers of New York. All of them seek a better future but have very different ideas about how to get there; over the course of 10 days this multiperspective story offers an abundance of surprising detours and run-ins.
My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee
Part study of suburbia, part globe-trotting adventure, Lee’s latest novel follows a young man from a transformative trip in Asia to a low-key life in a New Jersey town. Reflective, precise writing and a steady churn of pleasures and perils make for a winning combination.
Life's Edge: The Search for What it Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
Zimmer’s book tackles some of biology’s hardest questions: What is life? How did it begin? And what criteria should we even use to call something “living”? From metabolism to sentience to evolution to our current focus on DNA, Zimmer takes the reader on an elegant, deeply researched tour.
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