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Recommended English book list: Obama‘s latest Memoir

BY Judy 12 Nov,2020 English Book Memoir

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12. The Sun Collective

Author: Charles Baxter.

Publisher: Pantheon, 17 November

The parents were searching for their son who was an actor. They are worried that he had become homeless. This led them to an activist group in Minneapolis which was more dangerous than when it first emerged.

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13. V2: A Novel of World War II

Author: Robert Harris.

Publisher: Knopf, 17 November

Mr Harris is the author of the bestselling “Munich” and “Fatherland”, and he is back to familiar territory. The key point of this story is the V2 which was launched in 1944 and was one of the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missiles.

14. Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret

Author: Catherine Coleman Flowers.

Publisher: New Press, 17 November

In poor communities across the United States, including Flowers’ home land of Alabama, too many Americans are lack of the basic dignity, in her words, “the right to flush and forget”, and they don’t have the ability to clean the sewage from their homes and live in squalor. The author is a 2020 MacArthur winner who delves into the racial and economic factors that lead people to live in unsanitary conditions.


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15. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and A Half Century of Silence

Author: Becky Cooper.

Publisher: Grand Central, 10 November

As an undergraduate at Harvard in 1969, Cooper became fascinated by the murder of an anthropology student Jane Britton. As Cooper digs up the truth, new DNA analysis eventually identifies a suspect, but the true thrill of the story is that the murder has remained a mystery for decades.

16. White Ivy

Author: Susie Yang.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Tuesday

As the narrator of the debut novel, Ivy spent her childhood in China with her grandmother before coming to the United States.

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