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"Books can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures, national boundaries, and historical eras," Kakutani writes in her introduction to Ex Libris. Here readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today's most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation. There are essential works in American history (The Federalist Papers, The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.) ; books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, Daniel J. Boorstin's The Image, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale) ; classics of children's literature (the Harry Potter novels, Where the Wild Things Are) ; and novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ian McEwan.



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Michiko Kakutani

Michiko Kakutani is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic and the former chief book critic of The New York Times.Photo credit: Mark Seliger



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