Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews by Howard M. Lenhoff is a mildly tedi...

These are my ten favorite novels, in roughly the order I would put them if I absolutely had to (which I don't, because it's my list)...

Published in 1867, Thérèse Raquin is Emile Zola's first novel and a magnificent proto-noir thriller. All the necessary elements are h...

Appropriately enough for a book about math, Gifted by Nikita Lalwani is more than the sum of its parts. It is the story of a math prodig...

Real Cooking, by George! by George Jacobs is a goofy old book I found on Dollar Day at the San Francisco Library's used book sale at ...

The Orange Prize for Fiction 2008 longlist came out last week. The Orange Prize is awarded each year for the best novel in English written...

No, not the Scarlett Johansson movie. This  Lost in Translation is an imaginative and satisfying novel by Nicole Mones. The protagonis...

It is hard to say why Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell is so unsatisfying. It has definite moments of entertainment, a few evo...

Scavenger Reef by Laurence Shames is more than a typical "Florida noir" mystery. In addition to a clever "whodunit?...

While not really a list, one of my book-related goals is to make one new recipe from each of the cookbooks on my shelves. Since it has bee...

Milan Pelouch is a 78 year old mushroom hunter who, in his charming guide, How to Find Morels (subtitled Even as Others are Coming Bac...

The latest of the Booker Prize winners that I've read is The Bone People by Keri Hulme. It is a difficult book about identity, love,...

The Booker Prize is awarded each year for a "full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland . ...

The What’s Next? is even more fun than I thought. I emailed them yesterday when I couldn't find a list of Sir Arther Conan Doyle's ...

The Magus by John Fowles was my least favorite book on the Modern Library's Top 100 Novels list. I could not stand The Magus ! It may ...

The Kent District Library in Kent County, Michigan has a super on-line tool called What's Next? that provides lists of all the books in...

Foreigners by Caryl Phillips presents three profiles of black men in England: Francis Barber, the servant and companion of dictionary c...

The Stories of John Cheever , which won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1978 and the Pulitzer in 1979, is a chronological coll...

It's Easter Sunday, so a review of a religious book seems in order. The Shack by William P. Young is a novel about a father who, deva...

At the request of the Modern Library editorial board, the students in Radcliffe's Publishing Course compiled and released its own li...

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan is a perfectly crafted tragedy that describes the way a life can go so easily astray. Through the eyes of...

Hands down, my favorite "book" on the Modern Library's Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century list was A Dance to the Music of Ti...

  There was a time in my late 20s when I gobbled up Jim Harrison's novels like his characters go through brook trout and whiskey. T...

The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson spans generations of a Jamaican family, focusing first on Ida Joseph who, as a tee...

The Modern Library’s list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century was the trigger of my book list obsession. When I encountered this lis...

When I say I am a compulsive "list" reader, I mean I keep lists of the books I've read and am currently reading; make lists of...