Category: New York Times Best Seller

• CrimeReads: Gone, But Not Forgotten: 12 Great Mystery Authors Readers Still Love

  CrimeReads: Gone, But Not Forgotten: 12 Great Mystery Authors Readers Still Love. https://crimereads.com/12-great-mystery-authors-readers-still-love/

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 8, 2022

  Fiction, Literary, Murder, mystery, New York Times Best Seller, Thriller

  #bestsellingbooks, #books, #classic #vintage #needtoread, #thrillers, Fiction, Literary Whodunnit, Murder, Mystery-Thriller, novels

• An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz

  Chicago author Alex Kotlowitz has always been willing to tackle the big issues that impact our society and in his book An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, he looks at one summer in Chicago to tell the story about violence throughout the United States. Kotlowitz discussed his book with Northwest Indiana Times correspondent…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 5, 2021

  Audiobooks, Chicago, New York Times Best Seller, Politics

  Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer, Chicago, Children, Culture, Non-fiction, Social Justice, Social problems, Society, Violence

• President Obama’s Annual List of Favorites

  “As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites,” Barack Obama, the 42nd President of the United States, tweeted to his 127.5 million followers. “I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year, deliberately omitting what I think is a pretty good book – A Promised Land – by…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 28, 2020

  American History, Audiobooks, Autobiography, Barack Obama, Culture, Family, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Fiction, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, History, MacMillan, New York Times Best Seller, PenguinRandom House, Politics

  Barack Obama's 2020 Book Picks, Culture, Fiction, History, Memoir, Politics

• Trust: America’s Best Chance

  

  Buttigieg, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and then studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, has also written his second book, the just released “Trust: America’s Best Chance “(Liveright 2020; $23.95).

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 23, 2020

  American History, Culture, History, Liveright, New York Times Best Seller, Northwest Indiana, Politics

  Leadership, Liveright, Mayor Pete, NDIAS, Pete Buttigieg, South Bend, Trust, University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Studies

• Virtual Book Event: Ask Me Anything with True Crime Authors

  

  Log on to Reddit on Saturday August 22nd at 4:30 p.m. for “Ask Me Anything with True Crime Authors,” featuring four best selling authors who will be answering your questions live! Submit your question about writing, work, real-life crimes, cover-ups, covert operations, all-time favorite snacks, and anything in between and read through responses as the…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  August 19, 2020

  Author event, mystery, New York Times Best Seller, Penguin Random House, Psychological Suspense, Suspense, Thriller

  Amaryllis Fox, American Predator, Ariel Sabar, Behind the Horror, CIA, Criminology, Dr. Lee Mellor, Life Undercover, Maureen Callahan, Reddit, True Crime, Veritas, Virtual event

• The Splendid and the Vile. A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

  

            When New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson (Devil in the White City; Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania) moved to New York five years ago, he had what he describes as a revelation. He had watched, horrified, as 911 unfolded on CNN.           “But I wondered what was it like for…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 11, 2020

  American History, Authors, History, New York Times Best Seller

  Blitz, Erik Larson, London, Luftwaffe, Nazis, Royal Air Force, Winston Churchill, World War II

• Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

  

  Tightrope tells the tale of an America that is still in the process of losing well-paying jobs, where people work two or more jobs just to make ends meet, where one illness can turn into a bankruptcy for those who are uninsured or underinsured and where opioids and other drugs lead to incarceration, early death…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 2, 2020

  Authors, Culture, Knopf, New York Times Best Seller, New York Times bestseller, Politics

  columnist, East Chicago Indiana, Knopf, Kristoff, New York Times bestseller, NYT columnist, Opioid crisis, Pulitzer Prize winner, Tightrope, WuDunn

• Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

  

  Ronan Farrow’s book reads like a fast-paced mystery/thriller with hired spies, tapped phones, double and triple crosses, stalking by hired thugs and threats.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 1, 2020

  Culture, Hollywood, New York Times Best Seller, New York Times bestseller

  #MeToo, Ashley Judd, Catch and Kill, Harvey Weinstein, Mia Farrow, Mira Sorvino, Non-disclosure agreements, Ronan Farrow, Rose McGowan, Sexual predators, Woody Allen

• 1000 Places to See Before You Die: The World As You’ve Never Seen It Before

  

  Patricia Schultz and I had only been on the phone together for five minutes before we decided to make the trip to New Zealand—neither of us had been and both of us wanted to go. And no, I haven’t bought my ticket yet but that’s how mesmerizing Schultz, who introduced the concept of bucket list…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 23, 2019

  Architecture, Culture, Epic Adventure, Historic Architecture, History, New York Times Best Seller, Travel, Uncategorized

  1000 Places to See, Architecture, Exotic travel, Patricia Schultz, Scenic Beauty, Travel

• A Cloud in The Shape of a Girl

  

  Intrigued by the passage of time, the choices we make and the constraints life forces upon us, Jean Thompson, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist author, let a swirl of happenings and thoughts combine to create her latest novel, A Cloud in The Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster 2018;…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 9, 2018

  Book signings, Chicago, Literary, New York Times Best Seller, Simon & Schuster, Women and Children First