“The House on Vesper Sands,” by Paraic O’Donnell,” is a Victorian Gothic mystery set in 1893 London. It is a dark novel that exposes the...

“This Will Be Funny Someday,” by Katie Henry, is a true masterpiece; its author is a new favorite of mine. This book for young adults is...

“Until recent decades people didn’t live long enough to die of heart failure. Rather, they were felled by a range of infectious diseases...

Sarah Smarsh grew up listening to the music on the radio in the late 1970s and 1980s. Most were country songs by women with ideas about...

“Better Luck Next Time,” by Julia Claiborne Johnson, is just a fun book to read. It’s set in Reno, Nevada, in 1938, the place to go for a...

After purchasing 123-forested acres in New York's Berkshire Mountains, Simon Winchester contemplates the meaning of land ownership. At...

“The Last Garden in England,” by Julia Kelly, is a generational story centering on a garden in England. It alternates between three time...

Roy Peter Clark’s “Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinnser” is a joy to read. That’s important. A...

Readers can take a “trip down memory lane” on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 6:30 p.m. when author Jim Merkel makes a virtual presentation on...

How did we get here? How do we get out of this mess? And how do we prevent these things from happening again? So go the questions...

“The Arrest,” by Jonathan Lethem, is part sci-fi, part end of the world, part social commentary and utopia. It reads quickly with very...

Autobiography is typically characterized as a chronological account of the author’s life, usually told in first person. Memoir, on the...

“Nora,” by Nuala O’Connor, is the story of Nora Barnacle, partner of author James Joyce. She lived with James for 27 years and had two...

"I like being old because the view from the brink is striking, a full panorama of my life—and a bracing breeze awakens me to new ways of...

At an elemental level, “Perestroika in Paris,” by Jane Smiley, is the story of four characters: Paras, a curious young racehorse; Frieda,...

This extraordinary novel raises raw questions about faith, family, religion and science. It is a narrative full of painful emotion and...

“The Glass House,” by Beatrice Colin, is a book you can just sink into. Antonia and her husband live on the family estate in Scotland....

This suspenseful work of fiction begins with a funeral witnessed by seven magpies. One of the mourners eyes the birds overhead and...

“Fifth from the bottom of my class, and the Republican nominee for president. Unbelievable.” Those words were spoken by John McCain...

I couldn’t resist “Mrs. Claus and the Santaland Slayings” based on the title and cute cover. I anticipated the novel by Liz Ireland would...