5 Great American Novels FAVE FIVE BOOK THOUGHTS The word of the month is semiquincentennial! On this Independence Day weekend, in honor of...

FIVE FAVE AUTHORS I'D LIKE TO MEET My Five Faves today are five favorite authors instead of particular books. I was inspired by a ...

A good alternate history novel is about as close as I get to enjoying sci-fi or fantasy fiction. Five of my favorites, in alphabetical ...

Looking over the list of books I read last year, a main theme seems to be secondary works by favorite authors.  It was not a year for lig...

Food-centered memoirs are a big hit with me.  Reading these memoirs -- either classics or newer books -- is what makes the Foodies Read C...

FIVE FAVE THRILLERS I always like a good thriller, my escapist genre of choice.  Thrillers I distinguish from mysteries in a fuzzy, o...

FIVE FAVE BIG YARNS Summer is a great time to fall into a "Big Yarn" kind of book, which I define as an absorbing story wit...

FIVE FAVE VENICE BOOKS It is Carnival in Venice this week, so here is a short list of my favorite Venice books: The World of Venic...

There are times when a full-sized book list is just too much; when the Top 100, a Big Read, or all the Prize winners seem like t...

There are times when a full-sized book list is just too much; when the Top 100, a Big Read, or all the Prize winners seem like too dau...

There are times when a full-sized book list is just too much; when the Top 100, a Big Read, or all the Prize winners seem like too daunt...