Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Imagine you’re a kid, joining your mom for a day at work. This is no corporate-sponsored occasion where you’ll raid the supply closet and nibble cookies frosted with the company logo;...
Category: Nonfiction
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets An Oral History by Svetlana Alexievich translated by Bela Shayevich
Svetlana Alexievich is an investigative journalist who in her book Secondhand Time has compiled powerful narratives that reveal the impact of the dissolution of the Soviet Union on its people. Through...
Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together by Illana Kurshan
If you love children and children’s literature, you have to try Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together. It is my favorite book so far in 2025. Ilana Kurshan,...
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at...
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,...
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who watch or work or weep this night, and give your angels charge over...
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet
“In the beginning,” Lydia Millet writes in We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, “we gave names to every creature that we found … home was a garden, then—a garden...
And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is best known for A Series of Unfortunate Events and All The Wrong Questions, published under the pen name Lemony Snicket. In “And Then? And Then? What Else?” he...
The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards
I love mysteries and crime fiction. I love reading them and reading about them. In this book, “Martin Edwards has drawn on his experience as an award-winning novelist to capture the...
Lost Son by Brett Forrest
Lost Son is a nonfiction investigative mystery/thriller in which national security reporter Brett Forrest describes his efforts to find out what happened to a young man named Billy Reilly who was...
