The Underground Railroadby Colson Whitehead(Jan) – This was sort of the book of 2016 and definitely appreciated the fictional, somewhat fantastical, and yet illuminating journey seeking freedom. The Girl on the Trainby Paula Hawkins– This book was certainly readable but I didn’t buy the story...
5. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner Credit: W.W. Norton & Company "I had trouble getting a handle on Ridgeway, the slave catcher in the book, but Foner’s tales of the brinksmanship between abolitionists and slave masters in New York gave...
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult(Bruce Handy) — Bruce Handy doesn’t just take the reader on a delightful trip down memory lane in his stellar book about the delights of children’s literature. He takes kids’ books seriously, proving what many adult read...
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad took the literary world by storm in 2016, earning the author the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list, as well as a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Envisioning the Underground Railroad as an actual network of train tracks throughout...
“The Underground Railroad”byColson Whitehead(Doubleday).Whitehead’s novel, winner of this year’s National Book Award for fiction, brilliantly re-imagines the fabled network of escape routes for runaway slaves in the American South as an actual, subterranean rail system,in a moving taleof brut...
As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Hetty Rhodes helped usher dozens of people North with her wits and magic. Now that the Civil War is over, Hetty and her husband Benjy have settled in Philadelphia, solving murders and mysteries that the white authorities won’t touch. When they fin...
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016) A thrilling, genre-bending tale of escape from slavery in the American deep south, this Pulitzer prize-winner combines extraordinary prose and uncomfortable truths. Two slaves flee their masters using the underground railroad, the network of abolition...
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead A Childhood by Harry Crews The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers *** Atlanta An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones The End of October by Lawrence Wright The Atlas...
5.The Underground Railroadby Colson Whitehead A richly imagined, provocative historical novel that follows a young enslaved woman’s escape from her captors. Also, a pop of magical realism. But it’s not the magical realism I remember, now; it’s Cora’s tenacity, the relentless brutality of...
Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were Conductors on the Underground Railroad, ferrying dozens of slaves to freedom with daring, cunning, and magic that draws its power from the constellations. With the war over, those skills find new purpose as Hetty and Benjy solve mysteries and murders ...