Book Blogs on the Internet
The New York Times Books
- When You’re This Hated, Everyone’s a Suspectby Meryl Gordon on May 18, 2022 at 1:44 pm
In “Who Killed Jane Stanford?” Richard White takes on a 1905 murder — and seamy cover-up — that has fascinated scholars for generations.
- Colin Kaepernick to Publish a Young Adult Memoirby Elizabeth A. Harris on May 18, 2022 at 1:36 pm
“Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game,” an illustrated book, follows a young athlete choosing between baseball, which seems like a sure path, and football, where he feels he can […]
- Larry Woiwode, Who Wrote of Family, Faith and Rural Life, Dies at 80by Penelope Green on May 18, 2022 at 11:29 am
Raised in North Dakota and rural Illinois, he was a literary star in New York City in the 1970s. But he left the limelight to raise a family on a North Dakota farm.
Goodreads Blog
- Hot Mysteries and Thrillers of Summeron May 17, 2022 at 8:59 pm
Summer reading time has arrived, and for the serious reader that means it’s time to enact a game plan. There are just too many good books, that’s the pleasant problem. If you […]
- Hit Speculative Fiction of 2022 (So Far)on May 12, 2022 at 11:26 pm
Judging by early reviews and general pop-culture impact, Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven) has hit a home run with her latest novel, Sea of Tranquility, which has already […]
- Recent 4-star Historical Fiction to Read Nowon May 11, 2022 at 6:17 pm
There’s no time like the present, we’re told. And this is true, but dedicated readers of historical fiction are hip to the fact that are many times other than the present, and […]
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
- When You’re This Hated, Everyone’s a Suspectby Meryl Gordon on May 18, 2022 at 1:44 pm
In “Who Killed Jane Stanford?” Richard White takes on a 1905 murder — and seamy cover-up — that has fascinated scholars for generations.
- Review: ‘Indelible City,’ by Louisa Lim; and ‘The Impossible City,’ by Karen Cheungby Amy Qin on May 18, 2022 at 11:07 am
To explain the city’s fraught present, two books look to its past.
- Review: ‘Heartbroke,’ by Chelsea Bieker; ‘Valleyesque,’ by Fernando A. Flores; and ‘Proof of Me,’ by Erica Plouffe Lazureby Jean Chen Ho on May 17, 2022 at 4:02 pm
From California’s Central Valley to the Texas-Mexico border to rural North Carolina, fiction anchored by a strong sense of place.