2023

03.25.2023; Demon Copperhead; Barbara Kingsolver; ****

03.17.2023; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow; Gabrielle Zevin; ****1/2

03.08.2023; Filthy Animals; Brandon Taylor; ***1/2

01.03.2023; Rabbit Hutch; Tess Gunty; ****1/2

2022

12.31.2022; Good Company; Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney; *** 1/2

lots of missing books. Not sure what happened

01.18.2022; The Last Thing He Told Me; Laura Dave; ****

01.13.2022; Matrix; Lauren Groff; ****

01.09.2022; Klara and the Sun; Kazuo Ishiguro; ****

01.01.2022; Gold Diggers; Sanjena Sathian; ***

2021

12.15.2021; Oh William!; Elizabeth Strout; ***

11.29.2021; Malibu Rising; Taylor Jenkins Reid; ***

11.19.2021; The Pessimists; Bethany Ball; ***

10.01.2021; The Great Circle; Maggie Shipstead; *****

09.01.2021; Beautiful Animals; Lawrence Osborne; ***

08.20.2021; Kent State; Derf Backderf; ****1/2

08.18.2021; Olympus, Texas; Stacey Swann; ***1/2

08.01.2021; In Five Years; Rebecca Serle; ****

07.15.2021; The Push; Ashley Audrain; ****

07.01.2021; Detransition Baby; Torrey Peters; ***

06.02.2021; Valentine; Elizabeth Wetmore; ****1/2

05.30.2021; The Last Castle; Denise Kierman; ***

05.16.2021; Three O’Clock in the Morning; Gianrico Carofiglio; ****

05.12.2021; The Four Winds; Kristin Hannah; ***

05.10.2021; Catch and Kill; Ronan Farrow; **** audio

04.20.2021; Something in the Water; Catherine Steadman; ****

04.08.2021; The Midnight Library; Matt Haig; ***

03.23.2021; Nothing To See Here; Kevin Wilson; ****

03.13.2021; When the Yellowbird Sings; Jennifer Rosner; ****1/2

03.10.2021; Memorial; James Washington; ****

03.03.2021; What Happens at Night; Peter Cameron: ***1/2

02.25.2022; Luster; Raven Leilani; ***1/2

02.15.2021; Snuggie Bain; Douglas Stuart; ***1/2

01.29.2021; The Vanishing Half; Brit Bennett; ****

01.25.2021; Squeeze Me; Carl Hiaasen; ****

01.22.2021; The Friend; Sigrid Nunez; ***

01.18.2021; The Glass Hotel; Emily St. John Mandel; ****

01.14.2021; Call the Midwife; Jennifer Worth; ****1/2

01.02.2021; The Road; Cormac McCarthy; ****

2020

12.31.2020; Lonesome Dove; Larry McMurtry; *****

12.23.2020; The Guest List; Lucy Foley; ***1/2

12.18.2020; The Last Story of Mina Lee; Nancy Jooyun Kim; ***

12.07.2020; Blacktop Wasteland; S.A. Cosby; ***

12.01.2020; The Boy in the Field; Margot Livesey; ****

11.24.2020; Beheld; TaraShea Nesbit; ****1/2

11.22.2020; A Burning; Megha Majumdar; ****

11.17.2020; The Cold Millions; Jess Walter; ****

11.10.2020: Triptych; Karin Slaughter; ***1/2

11.03.2020; Leave the World Behind; Rumaan Alam; ***

10.31.2020; Long Bright River; Liz Moore; ****

10.20.2020; We Went to the Woods; Caite Dolan-Leach; ****

10.15 2020; The New Wilderness; Diane Cook; ****

10.07.2020; The Lost and Found Bookshop; Susan Wiggs; ****

09.29.2020; Cleanness; Garth Greenwell; ***1/2

09.27.2020; The Book of Lost Friends; Lisa Wingate; ****

09.20.2020; All Adults Here; Emma Straub; ****

09.13.2020; The Lies that Bind; Emily Giffin; ****

09.11.2020; Death in Her Hands; Ottessa Moshfegh; ****

09.08.2020; Conviction; Denise Mina; ****

08.23.2020; Want; Lynn Steger Strong; ****

08.20.2020; A Children’s Bible; Lydia Millet; ***1/2

08.14.2020; In Cold Blood; Truman Capote; ****1/2. ##

08.10.2020; How Much of These Hills Are Gold; C. Pam Zheng; ****

08.02.2020; Oona Out of Order; Margarita Montimore; ***1/2

07.28.2020; Bossypants; Tina Fey; ****1/2 audio

07.26.2020; Real Life; Brandon Taylor; ***

07.22.2020; The Light We Lost; Jill Santopolo; ***

07.15.2020; The Giver of Stars; Jojo Moyes; ****

07.05.2020; The Daughters of Erietown; Connie Schultz; ***1/2

06.29.2020; The Most Fun We Ever Had; Claire Lombardo; ****

06.22.2020; Such a Fun Age; Kiley Reid; ****

06.19.2020; The Jetsetters; Amanda Eyre Ward; ****

06.14.2020; The Things We Cannot Say; Kelly Rimmer; ***1/2

05.27.2020; Redhead by the Side of the Road; Anne Tyler; ***

05.24.2020; Dear Edward; Ann Napolitano; ****1/2

05.24.2020; Born a Crime; Trevor Noah; ****

05.15.2020; American Dirt; Jeanine Cummins; ****1/2. ##

05.06.2020; Imagine Me Gone; Adam Haslett; ****

04.29.2020; Evie Drake Starts Over; Linda Holmes; ***1/2

04.25.2020; This Tender Land; William Kent Krueger; ***1/2

04.18.2020; The Lottery; D K Wall; ***

04.12.2020; Red at the Bone; Jacqueline Woodson; ****

04.01.2020; The Other Americans; Laila Lalami; ****

03.31.2020; The Testaments; Margaret Atwood; ****1/2 ##

03.26.2020; The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted; ****1/2. ##

03.22.2020; Ellie and the Harp Maker; Hazel Prior; ***

03.01.2020; The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat; Edward Kelsey Moore; ***

02.17.2020; Inheritance; Dani Shapiro; ****1/2. ##

02.15.2020; Chances Are; Richard Russo; ****

02.09.2020; The Stationary Shop; Marjan Kamari; ***1/2

02.01.2020; What Belongs To You; Garth Greenwell; ****1/2

01.18.2020; Southernmost; Silas House; ****

01.05.2020; Daisy Jones & The Six; Taylor Jenkins Reid; ****

2019

12.15.2019; Olive, Again; Elizabeth Strout; ****1/2

12.07.2019; The Body in Question; Jill Ciment; ****1/2

12.07.2019; My Year of Rest and Relaxation; Otessa Moshfegh; ***1/2

12.01.2019; The Lonely Heart Hotel; Heather O’Neill; ****

11.15.2019; The Dutch House; Ann Patchett; *****

11.09.2019; The Turn of the Key; Ruth Ward; ****1/2

10.15.2019; Everything Here is Beautiful; Mira T. Lee; ***1/2

09.20.2019; Ask Again, Yes; Mary Beth Keane; ****

09.07.2019; The Lager Queen of Minnesota; J.Ryan Stradal; ****

09.01.2019; The Nickel Boys; Colton Whitehead; ****1/2

08.20.2019; The Last Book Party; Karen Dukess; ****

08.14.2019; Bad Country CB McKenzie: ****1/2

08.07.2019; Last Thing Before I Go Jonathan Tropper; ***1/2

08.01.2019; is Always How It Is Laurie Frankel; ****

07.15.2019; The Overstory; Richard Powers; ****

07.12.2019; The Man of the House; Stephen McCauley: ****

07.01.2019; Out East; John Glynn; ***

06.15.2019; Educated; Tara Westover; ***1/2

06.01.2019; Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty; ****

05.22.209; Absolutely Remarkable Think Hank Green; ****

05.15.2019; Book of Ruth Jane Hamilton; ****

05.01.2019; Dance Anne Tyler; ****

04.24.2019: Where the Crawdads Sing; Delia Owns; ****

03.01.2019; A Map of the World; Jane Hamilton: ****

02.24.2019; An American Marriage; Tayari Jones ****1/2

02.23.19; On Turpentine Lane; Elinor Lipman; ****1/2

02.17.19; The Pisces; Melissa Broder; ***

02.09.2019; There There; Tommy Orange; ****

02.02.2019; Still Me; Jojo Moyes; ****

01.29.2019; Every Note Played; Lisa Genova; ****

01.15.2019; Small Great Things; Jodi Picoult; ****

2018

10.15.2018; Florida; Lauren Groff; ****

10.1.2018; Sharp Objects; Gillian Flynn; ***1/2

09.15.2018; Only Killers and Thieves; Paul Howarth; ****

08.15.2018; Party of One; Dave Holmes; ****

07.15.2018; A Seperation ;Katie Kitamura; ***

06.15.2018; Flat Broke with Two Goats; Jennifer McGaha; ***1/2

05.01.2018; Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine; Gail Honeyman; ***1/2

04.15.201; The Leavers; Lisa Ko; ***1/2

04.01.2018; Stephen Florida; Gabe Habash; ****

03.15.2018; Less; Andrew Sean Greer; ***1/2

03.01.201; Do Not Become Alarmed; Maile Meloy; ***

02.17.2018; Future Home of the Living God; Louise Erdrich; ****1/2

02.10.2018; A Piece of the World; Christina Baker Kline; ****1/2

02.05.2018; The Heirs; Susan Rieger; ****

01.28.2018; Little Fires Everywhere; Celeste Ng; ***

01.13.2018; Theft By Finding; David Sedaris; ****

01.06.2018; My Absolute Darling; Gabriel Tallent; ****1/2

01.02.2018; We Shall Not All Sleep; Estep Nagy; ***

2017

12.26.2017; New People; Danzy Senna; ***

11.14.2017; Mrs. Fletcher; Tom Perrotta; ****

11.7.2017; What We Lose; Zinzi Clemmons; ***1/2

10.28.2017; This One Summer; Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki; ***1/2

10.28.2017; Sing, Unburied, Sing; Jesmyn Ward; ****

10.21.2017; The Impossible Fortress; Jason Rekulak; ***

09.30.2017; The Things They Carried; Tim O’Brien; ****

09.10.2017; Rabbit Cake; Annie Hartnett; ****

07.22.2017; The Marsh King’s Daughter; Karen Dionne; ****

07.15.2017; East of the Mountains; David Guterson; ****1/2

06.01.2017; Anything is Possible; Elizabeth Strout; ****1/2

04.29.2017; Faithful; Alice Hoffman; ***

04.19.2017; Midnight Sun; Jo Nesbo; ****

04.18.2017; The Underground Railroad; Colson Whitehead; ****

04.17.2017; Swimming Lessons; Claire Fuller; ****1/2

04.15.2017; Another Brooklyn; Jacqueline Woodson; ***1/2

04.10.2017; The Vegetarian; Han Kang; ****

03.28.2017; Truly Madly Guilty; Liane Moriarty; ****

03.26.2017; Pax; Sara Penny Packer; ****

02.01.2017; When Breath Becomes Air; *****

01.01.2017; I’ll Take You There; Wally Lamb; ***1/2

2016

12.10.16; Commonwealth; Ann Patchett; ****

12.08.12; At the Edge of the Orchard; Tracy Chevalier; ****1/2

12.01.16; The Art Forger; B.A. Shapiro; ****

11.12.16; Miss Jane; Brad Watson; ****

11.06.16; News of the World; Paulette Jiles; ****

10.30.16; After This; Alice McDermott; ****1/2

10.23.16; Out of My Mind; Sharon Draper; **1/2

10.16.16; Saint Mazie; Jami Attenberg; ****1/2

09.25.16; Someone, Alice McDermott; ****1/2

09.18.16; The Haunting of Hill House; Shirley Jackson; ***1/2

09.11.16; Once We Were Brothers; Ronald Balson; ***

08.08.16; Kitchen’s of the Great Midwest; J. Ryan Stradal; ****

07.22.16; Three Junes; Julia Glass; ****1/2

07.15.16; What Alice Forgot; Liane Moriarty; ***1/2

06.05.16; The Red Notebook; Antoine Laurain: ****1/2

06.03.16; A Man Called Ove; Fredrik Backman; ***1/2

05.28.16; The Snow Child; Eowyn Ivey; ****

05.21.16; The Storied Life of A.J. Fiery; ****1/2

04.15.16; We Never Asked For Wings; Vanessa Diffenbaugh; ****

03.31.16; X mountain

03.31.16; The Good Girl; Mary Kubica; ***1/2

03.12.16; Love May Fail; Matthew Quick; ***1/2

03.06.16;The Turner House; Angela Flournoy; ***1/2

01.30.16; My Name is Lucy Barton; Elizabeth Strout; ****

01.30.16; Delicious Foods; James Hannaham; ****

01.16.16; A Sudden Light; Garth Stein; ****

01.09.16; The Nightingale; Krisin Hannah; ***1/2

2015

12.27.15; Ready Player One; Ernest Cline; ****

12.25.15; The Museum of Extraordinary Things; Alice Hoffman; ***1/2

11.28.15; Career of Evil; Robert Galbraith; ***1/2

10.27.15; Ordinary Grace; William Kent Krueger; ***1/2

10.20.15; The Life We Bury; Allen Eskens; ****

10.12.15; Fates and Furies; Lauren Groff; ****

10.05.15; The Lola Quartet; Emily St. John Mandel; ****1/2

09.26.15; The Girl on the Train; Paula Hawkins; ****

09.19.15; A Separate Peace; John Knowles; ****

09.12.15; The Martian; Andy Weir; ****1/2

09.09.15; The Monsters of Templeton; Lauren Groff’ ***1/2

09.07.15; The Silver Linings Playbook; Matthew Quick; ****1/2

08.23.15; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Mohsin Hamid; ****

08.17.15; Driftless; David Rhodes; ****

08.03.15: Beneath the Bonfire; Nicolas Butler; ****1/2

07.31.15; Child 44; Tom Rob Smith; ***

07.17.15; The Love Song of Miss Queeny Hennessy; Rachel Joyce; ****

07.12.15; Florence Gordon; Brian Morton; ****1/2

07.10.15; The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie; Alan Bradley’s; ****1/2

06.27.15; Crossing to Safety; Wallace Stegner; ****1/2

06.21.15; Remember Me Like This; Bret Anthony Johnson; ****

06.14.15; Our Souls at Night; Kent Haruf; ****

04.21.2015; A Blue Spool of Thread; Anne Tyler; ***1/2

04.12.2015; Shotgun Lovesongs; Nickolas Butler; ****1/2

04.08.2015; The Boys in the Boat; Daniel James Brown; ***1/2

04.06.2015; Men and Dogs; Katie Crouch; **1/2

04.01.2015; Department of Speculation; Jenny Offill; ****

03.20.2015; All the Light We Cannot See; Anthony Doerr; ****1/2

03.10.2015; Redeployment; Phil Klay; ****

03.07.2015; All Our Names; Dinaw Mengestu; ****

02.20.2015; All the Birds, Singing; Evie Wyld; ***1/2

02.10.2015; Station Eleven; Emily St. John Mandel; ****1/2

02.08.2015; The Corrections; Jonathan Franzen; ****1/2

01.29.2015; Old School; Tobias Wolff; ****

01.25.2015; The Rose Effect; Graeme Simsion; ***

01.19.2015; One of Us; Tawni O’Dell; ***

01.04.2015; Fourth of July Creek; Smith Henderson; ****

2014

12.28.2014; House: A Memoir; Michael Ruhlman; ***1/2

12.26.2014; Lucky Us; Amy Bloom; ****

12.10.2014; News From Heaven; Jennifer Haigh; ****1/2

12.06.2014; The Book of Unknown Americans; Christina Henriquez; ****1/2

11.30.2014; The Book of Joe; Jonathan Tropper; ****1/2

11.24.2014; Everything I Never Told You; Celeste Ng; ****1/2

11.20.2014; Astonish Me; Maggie Shipstead; ***1/2

11.08.2014; The Leftovers; Tom Perrotta; ****

11.03.2014; The Vacationers; Emma Straub; ****

09.30.2014; How You Lose Her; Junot Diaz; ****1/2

09.25.2014; Orphan Train; Christina Baker Kline; ***1/2

09.14.2014; The Rosie Project; Graeme Simsion; ****1/2

08.30.2014; A Bigamists’ Daughter; Alice McDermott; ***

08.15.2014; That Night; Alice McDermott; ***

07.27.2014; Natchez Burning; Greg Iles; ***

07.04.2014; A Discovery of Witches; Deborah Harkness; **1/2

04.27.2014; The Invention of Wings; Sue Monk Kidd; ****

04.13.2014; The Silent Wife; A.S.A. Harrison; **

03.31.2014; Where’d You Go, Bernadette; Maria Semple; ****1/2

03.30.2014; We are Water; Wall Lamb; ***1/2

03.15.2014; The Interestings; Meg Wolitzer; ****

02.27.2014; The Goldfinch; Donna Tartt; ****1/2

02.15.2014; Me Before You; Jojo Moyes; ***1/2

02.09.2014; This is Where I Leave You; Jonathan Tropper; ****

02.06.2014; How Full is Your Bucket; Tom Rath and Donald Clifton; ***

02.05.2013; The Fault in Our Stars; John Green; ****

01.26.2014; The Good Lord Bird; James McBride; ****

01.10.2014; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; Karen Joy Fowler; ****

01.03.2014; The Coldest Girl in Coldtown; Holly Black; ***

2013

12.30.2013; Playing Dead; Julia Heaberling, ***1/2

12.17.2013; Who Will Run the Frog Hospital; Lorrie Moore; ***1/2

12.15.2013; The Cuckoo’s Calling; Robert Galbraith; ****1/2

12.05.2013; A Gate at the Stairs; Lorrie Moore; ****1/2

12.01.201; The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet; Jamie Ford; ***

11.10.2013; Raven Stole the Moon; Garth Stein; ***1/2

10.31.2013; The Uncoupling; Meg Wolitzer; ****

10.13.2013; The Silver Star; Jeannette Walls; ***

10.11.2013; Half Broke Horses; Jeannette Walls; ****

10.08.2013; Cutting for Stone; Abraham Verghese; ****1/2

09.29.2013; Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand; Helen Simonson; ****

09.20.2013; The Lifeboat; Charlotte Rogan; ****

09.08.2013; The Sojourn; Andrew Krivak; ***1/2

09.01.2013; Ellen Foster; Kaye Gibbons; ***1/2

08.25.2013; American Rust, Philipp Meyer; ****

08.15.2013; Jewelweed; David Rhodes; ***1/2

08.09.2013; The Dinner; Herman Koch; ***1/2

08.07.2013; The Red House; Mark Haddon; **1/2

07.23.2013; The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope; Rhonda Rile; ***

07.07.2013; Little Altars Everywhere; Rebecca Wells; ***

06.30.2013; Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls; David Sedaris; ***1/2

06.21.2013; Gold; Chris Cleave; ****1/2

06.17.2013; The Financial Lifes of the Poets; Jess Walter; ***1/2

06.10.2013; Burgess Boys; Elizabeth Strout; ****

05.27.2013; Benediction; Kent Haruf; ****1/2

05.24.2013; We Live in Water; Jess Walter; ****

05.18.2013; Let the Great World Spring; Colum McCann; ****1/2

05.08.2013;The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society; Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows;****1/2

05.06.2013; Amy and Isabelle; Elizabeth Strout; ****

04.20.2013; Those Who Save Us; Jenna Blum; ***1/2

04.07.2013; Olive Kitteridge; Elizabeth Strout; ****1/2

03.28.2013; The Language of Flowers; Vanessa Diffenbaugh; ****1/2

03.24.2013; World War Z; Max Brooks; ****

03.15.2013; Nothing to Confess; Donald Hrick; ***1/2

03.12.2013; Arcadia; Lauren Groff; ****1/2

03.10.2013; Canada; Richard Ford; ***

02.21.2013; Twelve Tribes of Hattie; Ayana Mathis; ****

02.17.2013; Defending Jacob; William Landay; ****

02.01.2013; Truth Like the Sun; Jim Lynch; ****

01.27.2013; Imperfect Birds; Anne Lamott; ***

01.16.2013; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Ben Fountain; ****1/2

01.13.2013; Wild; Cheryl Strayed; ***1/2

01.06.2013; Flight Behavior; Barbara Kingsolver; ****1/2

2012

12.30.2012 The Ninth Wife; Amy Stolls; ***

12.13.2012; The Age of Miracles; Karen Thompson Walker; ****

12.08.2012; Wonder; R.J. Palacio; ***1/2

11.27.2012; The End of Your Life Book Club; Will Schwalbe; ****1/2

11.21.2012; The Round House; Louise Erdrich; ****1/2

11.13.2012; Sutton; R.E. Moehringer; ***1/2

11.04.2012; The Orchardist; Amanda Copling; ****

10.27.2012; The Marriage Plot; Jeffrey Eugenides, ***

10.01.2012; Beautiful Ruins; Jess Walter, *****

09.24.2012; Penelope; Rebecca Harrington, ***

09.18.2012; The Dog Stars; Peter Heller, ****1/2

09.12.2012; The Cement Garden; Ian McEwan, ***

09.10.2012; The Berlin Boxing Club; Robert Sharenow, ****

09.06.2012; Gone Girl; Gillian Flynn, ****

09.01.2012; The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry; Rachel Joyce, ****

08.26.2012; The Weird Sisters; Eleanor Brown, ****

08.17.2012; Home; Toni Morrison, ***1/2

08.16.2012; Tell the Wolves I’m Home; Carol Rifka Brunt, ****1/2

08.14.2012; The History of a Pleasure Seeker; Richard Mason, **

08.12.2012; The Cat’s Table; Michael Ondaatje, ****

08.09.2012; The Tiger’s Wife; Tea Obreht, ****

07.29.2012; Light a Penny Candle; Maeve Binchy, *

07.15.2012; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith, ****

07.05.2012; The Beginners’ Goodbye, Anne Tyler, ***1/2

07.01.2012; The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt, ****

06.24.2012; Consequences, Penelope Lively, **

06.16.2012; The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson, ****

06.03.2012; Salvage the Bones; Jesmyn Ward, ****1/2

06.02.2012; Doc, Maria Doria Russell, ****

05.16.2012; In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson, **1/2

04.8.2012; Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett, ****1/2

04.13.2012; The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman, ***1/2

03.18.2012; Swamplandia!, Karen Russell, ****

03.09.2012; The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, ***

02.27.2012; Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks, ****

02.22.2012; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, ****1/2

02.19.2012; The Night Circus, Erin Morgensten, ***1/2

02.07.2012; A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan****

01.31.2012; One Day, David Nicholls, ***1/2

01.21.2012; The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz ****

01.13.2012, The Poison Tree, Erin Kelly ***1/2

01.03.2012, Ed King, David Guterson ****

2011

Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins; *** 1/2

The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, ****

Razing Jake, Charlie Carilo, ****1/2

How Evan Broke his Head and Other Secrets, Garth Stein, ****

Mocking Jay, Suzanne Collins, ***

Room, Emma Donoghue, ****1/2

Three James, (Author???), ****

Letter from Point Clear, Dennis McFarlan, ****

Fugitive Pieces, Anne, Michaels, ***

The Paris Wife, Paula McLain, ***1/2

The Other, David Guterson, ***1/2

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Walter Mosley, ****1/2

Sister Mine, Tawni O’Dell, ***

Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt, ****

The Metropolis Case, Matthew Gallaway, ****

Keeping Time, Stacey McGlynn, ***

Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich, ***1/2

Fall of Giants, Ken Follett, ***

Faith, Jennifer Haigh, ****

The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver, *****

The Confession, John Grisham, ***1/2

The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff, ****

Calebs Crossing, Geraldine Brooks, ****

State of Wonder, Ann Patchett, ****1/2

Gone with a Handsome Man, Michael Lee West, **1/2

Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand, ***1/2

The Vices, Lawrence Douglas, ***1/2

The Astral, Kate Christensen, ***

Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam, **1/2

The Gap Year, Sarah Bird, **1/2

The Thing We Didn’t Say, Sarah Bird, ***

The Way Things Look to Me, Roopa Farooki, ***1/2

The Witch of Hebron, James Howard Kunstler, ****1/2

The Things We Cherished, Pam Jenoft, ***

Father Mucker, Greg Olear, ***1/2

World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler, ***1/2

The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman, ****1/2

One Second After, William Forstchen, **1/2