Titles with a legal bent include, amongst others, include……
Cep’s remarkable first book is really two: a gripping investigation of a rural Alabama preacher who murdered five family members for the insurance in the 1970s, and a sensitive portrait of the novelist Harper Lee, who tried and failed to write her own book about the case.
A stringent, cleareyed memoir by a man who served more than 40 years of solitary confinement at Angola for a murder he did not commit.
This history, full of surprises, absurdities and ironies, traces the doctrine of segregation before and after the Civil War, which culminated in the notorious 1896 Supreme Court decision that made “separate but equal” the law of the land.
The full list of titles can be found at at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/books/notable-books.html
