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Les meilleurs titres parus en 2023

Notre agence représente plusieurs des titres ayant marqué la scène littéraire américaine en 2023, et figurant dans différentes listes des meilleurs livres de l’année des principaux médias. En voici un aperçu :

Fiction

CHAIN GANG ALL STARS
de Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Pantheon, mai 2023
À paraître aux éditions Albin Michel

New York Times Top 10 Best Books of 2023
New York Times Book Review Notable Books of 2023
Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of the Year
NPR’s Books We Love 2023
Washington Post Notable Works of Fiction 2023
Esquire Best Books of 2023
Vulture Best Books of 2023
ALA Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction – Longlist

“Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black.”

 

ALL THE SINNERS BLEED
de S.A. Cosby
Flatiron, juin 2023
À paraître chez Sonatine en janvier 2024

New York Times Book Review Notable Books of 2023
New York Times Book Review Best Crime Novels of 2023
TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023
NPR’s Books We Love 2023
Washington Post Best Thrillers of 2023
Financial Times‘s Best Crime Books of the Year
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023
Vulture Best Books of 2023
BookPage’s Best Mystery of the Year
ALA Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction – Longlist
Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List 2023

“The first Black sheriff in a small Southern town faces a questionable shooting, a Confederate pride march, and a serial killer, in the new novel by New York Times bestselling and LA Times Book Prize–winning author S. A. Cosby.”

 

YELLOWFACE
de R.F. Kuang
William Morrow, mai 2023
À paraître aux éditions De Saxus

New York Times Book Review Notable Books of 2023
TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023
NPR’s Books We Love 2023
Esquire Best Books of 2023
A Reese’s Book Club Pick

“White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American. . . With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.”

 

PEOPLE COLLIDE
de Isle McElroy
Harper, septembre 2023
Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

Vulture Best Books of 2023
NPR’s Books We Love 2023
Elle Favorite (and Most Anticipated) Books of 2023

“A gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership. . . A rich, rewarding exploration of ambition and sacrifice, desire and loss, People Collide is a portrait of shared lives that shines a refreshing light on everything we thought we knew about love, sexuality, and the truth of who we are.”

 

Non fiction

 

KING: A Life
de Jonathan Eig
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, mai 2023
Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

New York Times Best Books of 2023
New York Times Book Review Notable Books of 2023
New Yorker Best Books of 2023
Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Books of 2023
NPR’s Books We Love 2023
Washington Post Best Books of 2023
Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List 2023

“Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.  .  . In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.”

 

NUMBER GO UP: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
de Zeke Faux
Crown Currency, septembre 2023
Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

Financial Times Best Business Books of 2023
Washington Post Notable Works of Nonfiction 2023

“The “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars—hailed by Ezra Klein in The New York Times as “One of the Best Books that Explain Where We Are in 2023”. . . Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Zeke Faux the accolade “our great poet of crime” (Money Stuff columnist Matt Levine), Number Go Up is the essential chronicle, by turns harrowing and uproarious, of a $3 trillion financial delusion.”

 

COBALT RED: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
de Siddharth Kara
St. Martin’s Press, janvier 2023
Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2023
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award

“An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all. . . Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo―because we are all implicated.”

Sélection du New York Times : meilleurs titres parus en 2022

Tous les ans, la rédaction de la New York Times Book Review sélectionne une dizaine de titres notoires publiés au cours de l’année, en fiction et en non fiction. Pour 2022, notre agence représente plusieurs des titres figurant dans la liste des 10 Best Books of 2022. Voici les critiques :

STAY TRUE: A Memoir
by Hua Hsu
Doubleday, September 2022

“In this quietly wrenching memoir, Hsu recalls starting out at Berkeley in the mid-1990s as a watchful music snob, fastidiously curating his tastes and mercilessly judging the tastes of others. Then he met Ken, a Japanese American frat boy. Their friendship was intense, but brief. Less than three years later, Ken would be killed in a carjacking. Hsu traces the course of their relationship — one that seemed improbable at first but eventually became a fixture in his life, a trellis along which both young men could stretch and grow.”

UNDER THE SKIN: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
by Linda Villarosa
Doubleday, June 2022

“Through case histories as well as independent reporting, Villarosa’s remarkable third book elegantly traces the effects of the legacy of slavery — and the doctrine of anti-Blackness that sprang up to philosophically justify it — on Black health: reproductive, environmental, mental and more. Beginning with a long personal history of her awakening to these structural inequalities, the journalist repositions various narratives about race and medicine — the soaring Black maternal mortality rates; the rise of heart disease and hypertension; the oft-repeated dictum that Black people reject psychological therapy — as evidence not of Black inferiority, but of racism in the health care system.”

DEMON COPPERHEAD
by Barbara Kingsolver
Harper, October 2022

N.B. : Les droits de langue française ne sont plus disponibles pour ce titre.

“Kingsolver’s powerful new novel, a close retelling of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in contemporary Appalachia, gallops through issues including childhood poverty, opioid addiction and rural dispossession even as its larger focus remains squarely on the question of how an artist’s consciousness is formed. Like Dickens, Kingsolver is unblushingly political and works on a sprawling scale, animating her pages with an abundance of charm and the presence of seemingly every creeping thing that has ever crept upon the earth.”