Heartburn
Heartburn by Nora Ephron If you haven’t read Ephron’s hysterical first novel, a thinly disguised account of her marriage and subsequent divorce from the Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein, I […]
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes I am always looking for a good Bedside Table Book (BTB), so I was pleased that my pretty box from […]
Gold
Gold by Chris Cleave Kate and Zoe have been competitors in the sport of track cycling for years. At age thirty-two, the women train for their final Olympic Games. The […]
Free Food for Millionaires
Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee How do you select a good read? Recommendations from friends and book reviews are two popular sources. But sometimes nothing beats a […]
Foster
Foster by Claire Keegan Foster by the Irish author Claire Keegan is the perfect book club read as it is only 62 pages (no one can claim they did not […]
Fever
Fever, A Novel of Typhoid Mary by Mary Beth Keane At the turn of the last century, Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, nicknamed Typhoid Mary by the press, was the first […]
Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies by Lorna Groff At the conclusion of the first chapter of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, I can already predict the storyline. A golden couple meet at […]
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan A word of advice before you read Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad— it’s not a […]
Eighteen Acres
Eighteen Acres by Nicolle Wallace Crimes of a different nature are exposed in Nicolle Wallace’s novel, Eighteen Acres, White House staffers’ name for their place of employment. Wallace, a bona […]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Recommended by my literary friend Laurel, this novel by Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Noble Prize […]
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield Published in 1930, Diary of a Provincial Lady is the gently satiric fictional diary of an upper-middle-class lady living in a Devonshire […]
Dear American Airlines
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles An irresponsible husband, a drunk, and an unemployable poet and translator, Benjamin R. Ford will never be nominated for a distinguished citizen award. However, […]
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell When the review in The New York Times stated, “it is not unheard of for a novelist of exceptional talent to write a deliberately difficult […]
City of Girls
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert After that ridiculous Eat, Pray, Love, I removed author Elizabeth Gilbert from my reading lists, forever. But on the recommendation of a friend, I […]
City of Thieves
City of Thieves by David Benioff At first glance, a novel about two young men who meet in Leningrad during the Nazi siege sounds unpromising. Russian novels (about or by) […]