Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Bookshop by Evan Friss

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The Bookshop by Evan Friss is a solid work of nonfiction subtitled A History of the American Bookstore .  Friss covers topics including a ...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a remarkable memoir about she, her siblings Brian, Lori, and Maureen, and parents Rex and Rose Mary...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell

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Vanishing Treasure s by Katherine Rundell is a short and  interesting book subtitled A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures . Ru...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

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We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter is a novel based on real-life events, as Hunter tells a story taken from the life of her grandfat...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

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Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt is an engrossing novel that features the characters of Tova Sullivan, Cameron Cassmore, and...

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a work of nonfiction that's described as one where Coates "set out to write a book about writi...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

The Barn by Wright Thompson

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The Barn by Wright Thompson is an important nonfiction book subtitled A Secrete History of a Murder in Mississippi . Thompson recounts the...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

11/22/63 by Stephen King

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11/22/63 by Stephen King is a fascinating work of fiction about someone travelling back in time to try to stop the 1963 assassination of P...

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

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The Life Impossible by Matt Haig , author of The Midnight Library , is a novel about a math teacher in the U.K. who is gifted a home in Ibi...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Burn Book by Kara Swisher

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Burn Book by  Kara Swisher  from early 2024 is a an interesting nonfiction account of the journalist's years covering tech and the peop...

The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski

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The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski is a work of nonfiction that covers the stories of Nazi hunters who in the decades after WWII sought t...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko

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A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko is an excellent work of nonfiction subtitled  The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Gran...
Saturday, August 17, 2024

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is a work of historical fiction that tells the story of three English female code breakers at Bletchley Park du...

The Exchange by John Grisham

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The Exchange by John Grisham is a highly entertaining novel that picks up the lives of Mitch and Abby McDeere fifteen years after The Firm...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Watchers by Dean Koontz

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Watchers by Dean Koontz is a really great work of fiction about Einstein, a dog with extreme intelligence that was created in a lab for mi...

The Future by Naomi Alderman

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The Future by Naomi Alderman is a novel that covers an apocalyptic scenario with entertaining writing. Alderman features three tech billio...
Monday, July 01, 2024

Challenger by Adam Higginbotham

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Challenger by Adam Higginbotham is subtitled A True Story of Heroism and Disaster of the Edge of Space and details the history of the sp...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Fire Weather by John Vaillant

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Fire Weather by John Vaillant is a compelling work of nonfiction subtitled  A True Story From a Hotter World . Vaillant writes about the Ma...

The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides

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The Wide Wide Sea  by Hampton Sides is a solid book subtitled Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James...
Saturday, June 01, 2024

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix

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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix is an excellent work of nonfiction subtitled Ten Weeks in Birmingh...