These 5 must-read books drop this month
Fall is when the publishing world unleashes one title after another from some of the biggest, and biggest selling, authors. Don't overlook these works, all due out in September: from...
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4 must-read Indigenous books for young readers
Small publishing houses have known for years there's an audience for young people's books by and about Indigenous people.
Review: Why is there an FBI unit just to investigate truckers who kill?
The subtitle of "Long Haul" is "Hunting the Highway Serial Killers," but that's not what it's really about. Or, at least, not all of the time. Frank Figliuzzi's book is...
Author of ‘The Endurance’ turns her attention to an aerial campaign of World War II
Like the subject it covers, it takes a while for "Skies of Thunder" to get going. Caroline Alexander's World War II aviation history deals with Allied efforts to get supplies...
Review: Author Erik Larson returns with ‘The Demon of Unrest’
Author Erik Larson is back, with "The Demon of Unre t," exploring events in the five months before the Civil War.
Book review: Leslie Jamison got married, had a baby and lived to tell about it
Leslie Jamison turns her skills as a persuasive and funny essayist to matters of motherhood, marriage and men.
6 terrific books you can read in a single sitting
Reading speed varies, of course, but these six books can be read (and grasped) in one session.
Review: At last, A.J. Finn has a new thriller for fans of his ‘Woman in the Window’
With so many allusions to classic mystery authors, "End of Story" could have been mucked up by a lesser writer. But A.J. Finn pulls it off.
Review: Full of likably flawed characters, ‘Road from Belhaven’ is a book to cherish
Occasionally, Lizzie is able to use her premonitions to head off disaster, but one of the wisest things about Livesey’s book is that it insists that being able to (sometimes)...
19 new books to get you through winter
From nonfiction (an Iraq veteran views his divided country with dismay) to Chris Bohjalian's latest: Read on.