Hiroshima
1946 · 152 pages
Six people survived the bomb at Hiroshima and Hersey follows them through the year after: a clerk, a widow, two doctors, and two clergymen. He writes flatly and it is unbearable.
★ 8.0
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Man's Search for Meaning
1946 · 165 pages
Frankl, a Viennese psychiatrist, lost his wife and parents to the camps and survived Auschwitz himself. He watched who endured and who gave up, and named the last freedom: choosing your own response.
★ 6.9
Mr. President
1946 · 320 pages
In an unnamed Latin American capital, a beggar's killing of a colonel gives a dictator the pretext to destroy his enemies. Asturias renders the terror as fever dream, in prose that hallucinates.
★ 6.8
All The King's Men
1946 · 656 pages
Willie Stark rises from county treasurer to governor believing good can be made only out of bad. Warren wrote the American novel of power, narrated by the aide he sends to dig dirt.
★ 6.8
The Street
1946 · 448 pages
Lutie Johnson believes what Benjamin Franklin promised about work and thrift, and rents an apartment on 116th Street to raise her son. The men who watch her climb the stairs have other plans.
★ 6.7
Zorba the Greek
1946 · 368 pages
A bookish young Greek reopens a lignite mine on Crete and hires Alexis Zorba, an aging laborer who dances, plays the santuri, and treats his employer's reading as a substitute for living.
★ 6.5
Existentialism Is a Humanism
1946 · 128 pages
Existence precedes essence, Sartre told a packed Paris hall in 1945: you invent yourself by choosing and may blame nothing. The student torn between the Resistance and his mother is told to choose.
★ 6.3