All Books
- Author Jane Harper makes Australia a full-fledged character in 'The Dry'
Former journalist Jane Harper has become one of the world's leading mystery writers with her "Aaron Falk" mysteries set in distant corners of Australia.
- 3 compelling new mystery books
Reliable names in mystery writing shine in two new mysteries and a biography of the queen of the genre.
- 'The Woman's Hour' wonderfully recalls the furious fight to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment
Elaine Weiss’s superb book focuses on six key weeks in the suffrage battle.
- 'Picasso and the Painting that Shocked the World' depicts the heady, hardscrabble Paris years
The book culminates in the creation of the radical 1907 masterpiece 'Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.'
- 'Basketball' is a fast-break compilation that goes from from the beginning to Stephen Curry
A new Library of America collection of the best basketball writing offers an embarrassment of riches.
- 'Camp Austen' is the most delightful Jane Austen book of the season
'Camp Austen' is a sharp and wholly affectionate portrait of author-fandom raised to a manic pitch.
- 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a sweeping epic, perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and 'Black Panther'
'Children of Blood and Bone' deserves every extraordinary piece of praise lavished upon it.
- Madeleine L'Engle bio 'Becoming Madeleine' is aimed at middle readers but is also interesting to adults
The life of this sensitive, insightful woman – at least, the 40-plus years that the book covers – is as absorbing as a novel.
- 'Movie Nights with the Reagans,' a new memoir
Mark Weinberg, a speechwriter and adviser to the president, recounts the weekend evenings he spent watching movies with the president and first lady at Camp David in the 1980s.
- 'Green Sun' tells a compelling tale about a Vietnam vet-turned-cop policing the mean streets of Oakland
Author Kent Anderson traffics in archetypes without lapsing into tired storytelling.
- 'Time Pieces' is author John Banville's tribute to Dublin, the city that helped to shape him
At its best, 'Time Pieces' can be an invitation to wonder, aided by accompanying photographs by Paul Joyce.
- 'The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist' will shake your faith in the US justice system
The authors focus on the wrongful convictions of two black men, Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer, each charged in separate murders during the early 1990s in Mississippi.