The Door by Magda Szabo
★★★★★ The shimmering, haunting brilliance of Magda Szabo’s The Door binds like a spell. This is a book to thrust into the hands of everyone you know and love and to clam up trying...
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And Yet… by Chritopher Hitchens
★★★★☆ Christopher Hitchens’ reputation precedes him. Many readers, upon seeing the collection of essays that is And Yet… will either gleefully grasp this book or balk, not wanting to engage with “Hitch”.” To the...
Silence by Shusaku Endo
★★★★☆ Originally written in 1966, Shusaku Endo’s Silence is a timeless classic of faith and the challenges of remaining true to oneself amidst hardship. Set in Japan in the mid-17th century, Silence tells the...
The Searcher by Simon Toyne
★★★★☆ In Toyne’s The Searcher, mysterious stranger walks toward town. He has no memory of anything but the road. Wearing a bespoke suit, he is barefooted as he walks then runs away from the...
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
★★☆☆☆ Noam Chomsky is a venerated linguist and cognitive scientist, a Professor Emeritus at MIT, and one of the most revered intellectuals alive today. He is the author of more than 100 books in...
A Clue to the Exit by Edward St. Aubyn
★★☆☆☆ Originally published in 2000 in the United Kingdom, the 2015 US edition of Edward St. Aubyn’s A Clue to the Exit will do little more than sate curious readers. St. Aubyn’s five Patrick...
Nora Bonesteel’s Christmas Past: A Ballad Novella by Sharyn McCrumb
★★★★☆ Sharyn McCrumb may be known best for her “Ballad Novels” set in the mountains of western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, and her magnificent St. Dale, a Chaucerian tribute to the late Dale...
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
★★★★★ Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent is an essential new addition to the two-hundred-year-old Russian literary canon and may be the best novel about 20th-century Russia since Boris Pasternak’s 1957 classic Doctor Zhivago....
House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke
★★★★★ “There is a house in New Orleans / They call the Rising Sun / And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy / And, God, I know I’m one.” – The...
