The River We Remember by William Kent Kreuger
The River We Remember is a police procedural set in a fictional small town (Jewel) in a fictional county (Black Earth) in southern Minnesota. It is May 30, 1958—Memorial Day—and though...
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Light on Bone by Kathryn Lasky
In Light on Bone, Kathryn Lasky takes us to the New Mexico Ghost Ranch of 1934, gifting us with its beauty as seen through the eyes of artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Although...
Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
Lately, I’ve become very tired of reading about abuse whether it be abandonment or dismemberment or any trauma in between. Is there a well-written angst-free novel out there? Yes! I found...
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery of 2025, Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson is set on the fictional Ralston Island in the Thousand Islands archipelago...
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
To retrieve history we need rigour, integrity, unsparing devotion and an impulse to scepticism. To retrieve the past, we require all those virtues, and something more. If we want added value...
All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. (Shawn Andre) Cosby
In his Library of Congress National Book Festival discussion of All the Sinners Bleed, S. A. Cosby mentions how impactful it was to him to have made President Obama’s summer reading...
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
What a great idea this was, exquisitely researched and executed perfectly! I read A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks in small bites and from the reviews I have read,...
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Set on a fictional Welsh island in 1938, Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor introduces its reader to eighteen-year-old Manod Llan, a lifelong islander, who feels a deep attachment to her small...
The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated by Alison Anderson
At some point in recent history, the merits of reading literary fiction became inextricably entwined with the genre’s potential to instill empathy, particularly for characters whose lives are radically different from...
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Anyone who has ever watched a film with time-travel, or read a book with time-travel, or dissociated on a delayed public transport vehicle by considering the concept of time-travel, will know...
