How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge is a fascinating, anthropological novel following the lives and religious development of a group of E...

Crescent City by Belva Plain has all the makings of a great historic saga: Jewish immigrants flee the poverty and persecution of 19th C...

In Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations , Craig Nelson taught me that Thomas Paine was the Forrest G...

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is my favorite book about astronauts. Of course, it is the only book about astronauts that I will ever rea...

  Restless by William Boyd is one of the rare novels that is enjoyable from the opening quote to the final paragraph. The story goes bac...