“Good Reads – Winter List” from the National Book Critics Circle
Written on February 9, 2008
The National Book Critics Circle recently published a list of recommended books, the “Good Reads – Winter List,” based on recommendations from book critics and award-winning authors. The nonfiction short list includes Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks.
There is also a long list of titles that received multiple votes. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain is one of the books on the nonfiction long list, along with How Fiction Works by James Wood, even though it’s not due out until July.
Steven Pinker recommends What is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect by James Flynn.
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