Selected Stories
1996 · 412 pages
Munro set her stories in Ontario towns where a woman's life can turn on something said at a kitchen table. She fits more into forty pages than most novelists get into a novel.
★ 7.7
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Infinite Jest
1996 · 970 pages
Somewhere there is a film so entertaining that anyone who watches it stops eating. Wallace chases it through a tennis academy and a halfway house full of addicts he writes with real love.
★ 7.7
Angela's Ashes
A Memoir
1996 · 363 pages
McCourt's father drank the wages and his mother begged for coal in a Limerick lane, and three of his siblings died before he turned seven. He tells it laughing.
★ 6.3
A People's Tragedy
The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
1996 · 923 pages
Figes runs the Russian Revolution from the 1891 famine to Lenin's death in 1924, following peasants, soldiers, and the writer Gorky. He shows the terror arriving with the Bolsheviks, not after them.
★ 6.0
On Television
1996 · 104 pages
Television censors without a censor, Bourdieu argues: the clock and the ratings guarantee that only fast thinkers trading in received ideas can speak, and journalism drags politics and scholarship down with it.
★ 5.7
Virginia Woolf
1996 · 944 pages
Lee refuses the fragile madwoman of legend and gives back a working writer: funny, ambitious, hard on her friends. She holds the breakdowns and the novels together and lets neither explain the other.
★ 5.3
Into the Wild
1996 · 207 pages
Chris McCandless gave his savings to charity, burned the cash in his wallet, and walked into the Alaskan bush in April 1992. Krakauer refuses to file him under either fool or saint.
★ 5.0
The Clash of Civilizations
1996 · 367 pages
Ideology no longer divides the world, Huntington argued: culture does, along fault lines between seven or eight civilizations. After 9/11 nobody could discuss the West and Islam without answering him.
★ 4.8
Fight Club
1996 · 208 pages
Men beat each other in basements because nothing else in their lives is real. Palahniuk's narrator fakes illness for the support groups, meets the soap salesman Tyler Durden, and builds an army.
★ 4.8
The Book of Jewish Food
1996 · 668 pages
From Aleppo and Samarkand to Vilna and New York, Roden gathered eight hundred recipes and the histories that traveled with them. She was born into Cairo's Jewish community and expelled along with it.
★ 4.7