Persepolis
2003 · 153 pages
Satrapi was a schoolgirl in Tehran when the Shah fell and fourteen when her parents sent her alone to Vienna. She draws the revolution, the war and her exile in black and white.
★ 6.7
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The Known World
2003 · 432 pages
Henry Townsend was bought out of slavery by his father and came to own more than thirty slaves himself. Jones wrote the novel that forced American fiction to hold Black slaveholders in view.
★ 6.7
Rubicon
2003 · 464 pages
The Roman Republic destroyed itself, and Tom Holland tells it at the pace of a thriller. Caesar reaches the Rubicon with a single legion, knowing crossing it means war against his own state.
★ 6.0
Revelations
2003 · 352 pages
Arbus met twins, giants, nudists and Westchester couples with the same level stare. Here are the prints with her notebooks and letters, and the argument American photography has never settled about her.
★ 5.0
Moneyball
2003 · 320 pages
Oakland spent a third of what the Yankees spent and won as many games, buying the hitters scouts despised. Every team in baseball now runs on the arithmetic Lewis watched Billy Beane use.
★ 4.8