Tag: ThoughtProvoking
6 Thought-Provoking Y.A. Thrillers That Tackle Social Issues
I was in the sixth grade when a book changed me. I was already a voracious reader, and I loved mysteries and thrillers. Yet something was different about Robert Cormier’s 1977 novel, “I Am the Cheese.” There was an immediacy to Adam Farmer’s narration of his bike journey to visit his father. I hadn’t encountered an unreliable narrator and the lingering impact of an unsettling ending in the books I’d read before this one.
It felt like crossing an important
The Atlantic 10: 2022’s Most Thought-Provoking Books
End-of-year lists are by nature subjective, and selecting books in this way can be particularly hard. Tens of thousands of titles are published annually in the U.S., and a reader’s time is finite. We can digest only so much. Every publication, every jury making such judgments, has a filter. So this time around, we asked ourselves, as well as our colleagues: What were the books that had particular valence for us at The Atlantic? We looked for those that