I still don’t trust book lists that claim to have the “best” books, but some of these sound interesting.
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One of the listed books that caught my eye was the biography of Judith Jones, who I know as the trailblazing editor who published cookbooks by now iconic writers like Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, etc. I didn’t know that she had a much wider literary range, rescuing The Diary of Anne Frank from a reject pile and being the longtime editor of John Updike and other noted authors. The biography is written by Sara B. Franklin, a long-time friend and collaborator of Jones, and the blurb links to Franklin’s piece on the serious misrepresentations in the depiction of Jones in the HBO Max series Julia.
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