Review: 'Northernmost,' by Peter Geye
FICTION: The final volume of Peter Geye's trilogy takes readers to Minnesota's North Shore, and to 19th-century Norway.
Review: 'Six Days in August,' by David King
NONFICTION: A thrilling account of the 1973 hostage- taking that spawned the phrase "Stockholm syndrome."
Review: 'Soul Full of Coal Dust,' by Chris Hamby
NONFICTION: A New York Times reporter exposes how mining companies and their lawyers rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners sickened with black lung.
Review: 'Life of a Klansman,' by Edward Ball
NONFICTION: The author's great-great-grandfather was a Civil War-era white supremacist.
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Review: 'I Hold a Wolf by the Ears,' stories by Laura van den Berg
FICTION: In Laura van den Berg's latest collection, characters grapple with death, grief and memory.
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Review: 'A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings,' by Helen Jukes
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees By Helen Jukes. (Pantheon, 256 pages, $26.95.) After years of moving around Great…
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Review: 'With or Without You,' by Caroline Leavitt
FICTION: A stagnating marriage is thrown off course when a night of partying leaves the wife in a coma.
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman…
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Review: 'Why I Don't Write and Other Stories,' by Susan Minot
FICTION: A masterful collection of short stories by Susan Minot comes 30 years after her first.
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Quarantine Read: 'One Long River of Song'
I bought Brian Doyle’s “One Long River of Song” before COVID-19 hit and loved it then. I’m finding it even more soothing and timely…
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Review: 'Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey,' by Kathleen Rooney
FICTION: This graceful novel is based on the true story of World War I's "Lost Battalion."
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Review: 'The Boy in the Field,' by Margot Livesey
FICTION: Three British siblings save the life of a wounded young boy.
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Bookmark: This fraught summer has changed the way you read
Readers share what they're reading to get through the pandemic.
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Review: 'Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus' Wife,' by Ariel Sabar
NONFICTION: "Veritas" tells the true story of a Harvard academic who fell for a biblical fraud. (Or did she?)
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Review: "The Wolf's Trail," by Thomas D. Peacock
Fiction: An aged wolf's ancient narrative creates a startlingly contemporary map.
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. The Order, by Daniel Silva. (Harper) The 20th book in the “Gabriel Allon” series. The art restorer and spy cuts his family’s…
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Review: 'Blacktop Wasteland,' by S.A. Cosby
FICTION: A young father agrees to drive a getaway car and puts his whole family in danger.
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Reviews: 'Rules of the Road,' by Ciara Geraghty
Rules of the RoadBy Ciara Geraghty. (Park Row Books, 384 pages, $17.99.)In a classic road novel, the protagonist sets out on a journey and at…
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Quarantine read: 'Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse,' by Faith Sullivan
“Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse,” by Faith Sullivan Thank you, Faith Sullivan, for writing this touching, tender and transcendent saga of a single mom…
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Review: 'The Weekend,' by Charlotte Wood
FICTION: Three women in their 70s gather and find that their friendship has not aged well.
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Audiobooks: Great audiobooks to listen to now
“The Dragons, the Giant, the Women,” by Wayétu Moore. (Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 7¾ hours) Wayétu Moore’s artfully constructed memoir is one of the year’s…
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Review: 'Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger,' by Lisa Donovan
NONFICTION: Pastry chef and culinary writer Lisa Donovan's memoir exposes the sexism baked into the dining industry.
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Review: 'The Lost Pianos of Siberia,' by Sophy Roberts
NONFICTION: On a quest for pre-Soviet pianos, Sophy Roberts discovers a fascinating post-Soviet world.
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Review: 'Owls of the Eastern Ice,' by Jonathan C. Slaght
NONFICTION: A Minnesota biologist heads to the forests of Eastern Russia to track the world's largest owl.
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