Book Reviews & Recommendations
James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is a sweeping, jazz-inflected tale of community, prejudice, and resilience. Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award in Historical Fiction, this novel opens with a mystery in 1972 workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania uncover a skeleton […]
Rhys Bowen, bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook, has delivered yet another captivating tale with Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure. Set in pre-WWII Europe, this historical novel blends resilience, friendship, and the thrill of unexpected reinvention into a heartwarming […]
Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water is the kind of sweeping historical novel that asks you to clear your weekend, pour a strong tea, and surrender to a world that feels both intimate and immense. Set in Kerala along India’s Malabar Coast, […]
Andrea Catalano’s The First Witch of Boston reimagines the life of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be executed for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Blending romance, tragedy, and historical intrigue, this debut novel takes readers into the heart of Puritan Boston where […]
Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is one of the most talked-about novels in recent years, winning the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction in 2022. It promises an ambitious story about friendship, creativity, and the art of video games, and it […]
Kristin Hannah’s historical epic plunges readers into Dust Bowl Texas and the brutal realities of the Great Depression, told through the stubborn grit of one unforgettable heroine, Elsa Martinelli. It is a novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier, and […]
Bonnie Garmus’s breakout novel has been called funny, sharp, and empowering. It is also divisive in the best conversation-starting way. Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist in the early 1960s whose career is derailed by sexism at every turn. […]
Time travel stories often lean on romance or science fiction spectacle, but Nelson K. Foley’s The Bridge to Rembrandt takes a different route. Rooted in real history and art, this novel pulls readers across centuries of Amsterdam’s turbulent past while anchoring the […]