Inside Scientology
Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman I would not have taken a second glance at this book had it not been a book club selection. But to my surprise, I enjoyed […]
Watching the Dark
Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson Former policeman Bill Quinn is shot with a crossbow arrow on the grounds of his retirement community. Six years earlier, nineteen-year-old Rachel Hewitt went […]
Beautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Satirical novels about the movie business are funny but rarely charming. Beautiful Ruins manages to be both. In 1962, a beautiful actress arrives on the […]
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by the Countess of Carnarvon. This is the true story of Highclere Castle, the real Downton Abbey, and its remarkable mistress Lady Almina, […]
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon What if we made a different choice? What if we attended another college, turned left instead of right, called him back, told the […]
The Woman’s Hour
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss It’s not often that we get to brag about Tennessee’s progressive history, but in 1920 the state […]
The Weird Sisters
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown “The weird sisters” of the title are not necessarily all that peculiar, but as daughters of a professor of Shakespeare who names them after […]
The Weight of Ink
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish I love it when a novel inspires me to conduct extra research, and in The Weight of Ink there was plenty of material […]
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson If you’ve seen me recently, you’ve already heard me rave about this book. The Warmth […]
The Visitors
The Visitors by Sally Beauman The discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1923 was the single most important Egyptian archeological find of the 20th C. Not because King Tut was […]
The Viceroy’s Daughters
The Viceroy’s Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne de Courcy The aristocratic Curzon sisters were the daughters of Lord Curzon, confidants of royalty, and friends, lovers, and […]
The Thursday Murder Club
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Book 1) This novel kept appearing on various “recommended for you” lists, but I initially resisted buying it as it sounded rather insipid, […]
The Three Weissmanns of Westport
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine Betty Weissmann lives with her two middle-aged daughters. Or rather mother and daughters are living together again—after 20+ years. This unnatural situation […]
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The NCN Book Club’s January read was a stunning short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, […]
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris A romance set in the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau sounds both improbable and rather insensitive, but The Tattooist of Auschwitz is neither. Based […]