The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)
Not to go all Shakespeare on you, but I wonder if there will come a day when speculation will arise …
Category Archives: Fiction
Bittersweet: A Novel, by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Scholarship girls aren’t meant to slumber beside the scions of America because doing so whets insatiable appetites. Move this book …
Summer Reading Suggestions
Summer is coming and who doesn’t want a couple of good reads to take to the beach or the backyard …
Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel, by Nickolas Butler
When you think about it, a story only needs two people and a secret. This is a good thing because …
The Headmaster’s Wife, by Thomas Christopher Greene
“Time is malleable. Memory fails. Memory changes.” Imagine yourself standing in front of a mirror with two friends standing alongside …
You Should Have Known, by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Page one: Grace Reinhart Sachs is in her office being interviewed and photographed for Vogue, one of many events preceding the …
The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud
If you are of an age where you meet friends in a skeezy bar over a few pitchers of beer …
After I’m Gone: A Novel, by Laura Lippman
Felix Brewster is a small-time number runner and strip club owner who would be furious at being called “small-time.” He’s …
Before We Met, by Lucie Whitehouse
I’m assuming just about everyone read Gone Girl last year. I did – though I’m one of the three people in the …
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch honestly thrilled me. Its prose is so rich, its story so engrossing, and the characters so compelling that I was absorbed …
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