The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Fifth Season takes place on a planet called the Stillness. Not our earth exactly, but a place with recognizable features like oceans and […]
The Fifth Risk
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis Michael Lewis has made a career of turning arcane subjects such as baseball statistics (Moneyball), collateralized debt obligations (The Big Short), and football strategy […]
Friends of the Museum
Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan Recently when buying a book at my local bookstore, the clerk said, as she cheerfully took my credit card, “It [ my purchase] […]
A Death in Diamonds
A Death in Diamonds by S.J. Bennett That exalted amateur sleuth Queen Elizabeth II returns in S.J. Bennett’s novel, A Death in Diamonds. Unlike Bennett’s earlier novels, which feature an […]
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery If you wondered why you studied Liberal Arts in college rather than something more practical like engineering or ceramics, the French novel […]
The Dry
The Dry by Jane Harper The Dry, a first novel by Jane Harper, takes place in a small, rain starved farm community in Australia. Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to […]
The Dinosaur Feather
The Dinosaur Feather by S.J. Gazan My friend Paula introduced me to a new Scandinavian murder mystery The Dinosaur Feather, a first novel by Danish author S.J. Gazan which won […]
The Diary of a Bookseller
The Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell In 2001, Shaun Bythell bought a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, a tiny town located on a peninsula […]
The Cut-Out Girl
The Cut-Out Girl by Bart van Es In 2014, Bart van Es, a professor of English Literature at Oxford University, visits his father’s foster sister, Lien, in Amsterdam. Lien is […]
The Curse of Pietro Houdini
The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller In the early days of the Allied invasion of Italy in WWII, 14-year-old orphan Massimo takes refuge in the Benedictine abbey […]