In celebration of its 60th anniversary, The Book of the Month Club compiled a list of 60 American novels, published between 1926 and 1986...

J.G. from Hotch Pot Cafe recently commented on the conspicuous absence of The Orange Prize winners from my list of Must Read lists. It'...

"To Those It May Concern, That should leave none of you out." - The Letter From Death by Lillian Moats. According to the forwa...

There are too many books vying for my immediate attention right now. I do not like it -- I feel pressured. My plan is to work my way through...

I have updated my Pulitzer Prize Winners list by indicating which books I have read and which are currently on my TBR shelf. I am less than...

It beggars the imagination to think of the sprawling megalopolis of Los Angeles as a frontier town of 4,400.  But when Isaias Hellman ar...

As I find and visit so many wonderful book blogs, I see that many other bibliophiles share my compulsion to follow a "Must Read" b...

Thanks to a note on Reading Local yesterday, I visited a wonderful new bookstore in my neighborhood. Actually, the bookstore -- Ampersand ...

The set up for Ann Patchett's Orange Prize winner, Bel Canto , is attention-grabbing -- an international group of businessmen and d...

Inspired by Lezlie's articulate and thoughtful mission statement on Books 'N Border Collies , I have re-assessed my priorities and ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 107 times to 111 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015. I have a goal of reading at lea...

I have been smitten with Richard Ford ever since he introduced me to his Everyman hero Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter . I followed...

I finished the first of my Colorful Reading Challenge books -- Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke . This is the third in Burke's D...

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a literary one-off, so hard to categorize. The first half is a long poem by the fictional poet John S...

What a wonderful, great, big, shaggy dog of a novel Humbolt's Gift is! While litigating with his ex-wife, being bullied by a B-team...

This is the list of books I read in 2004, in the order that I read them. For an explanation of my rating system, see here . The highlight o...

"On my thirteenth birthday, my father took me to lunch at the Poodle Dog, one of San Francisco's oldest restaurants, the kind of...

There is a debate going on over on LibraryThing about whether listening to an audio book "counts" as reading the book. (Those who ...

In Native America Discovered and Conquered , law professor Robert J. Miller examines how the international law concept now referred to as...