Book Reviews

Finlay is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
The fifth Finlay Donovan book is out and reminded me how much…

Culture: the story of us from cave art to K-pop by Martin Puchner
It can be easy to dismiss popular culture as trite and inconsequential.…

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Journalist Alice Scott longs to move from writing features and…

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Louise never thought her family was weird, really. She’s always…

OH, OLIVE! by Lian Cho
Next Tuesday kicks off the most exciting time of year: Summer…

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
One not-small benefit of working at a library trucks with it…

Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
Helen Cartwright was born in a small English village but lived…

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11pm tonight. But our narrator…

A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko
Each year, over six million people visit Grand Canyon National…

Fable by Adrienne Young
This book is for any reader that has pretended to be a diver,…

WILL WE ALWAYS HOLD HANDS by Christopher Cheng and Stephen Michael King
After I read a good book with my son, he’ll often say, “you…

Lazarus Man by Richard Price
If you’ve watched HBO’s The Wire, then you’re familiar…

A Dream of Death by Connie Berry
Connie Berry’s debut novel, A Dream of Death, finds Kate Hamilton…

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
Ganymedes Piscero is in the last place he would ever want to…

Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
This multi-generational, sweeping tale begins with the arranged…