So...that was an unusual year, right? Thankfully, there were still plenty of great books!  Here are my 10 favorite of the year (in no partic...

Things are bad, but they could always be worse. Imagine if the coronavirus were massively more deadly than it already is...and only killed m...

If you're feeling a little bit better these days, Douglas Stuart's harrowing, heartrending debut novel Shuggie Bain can fix that ri...

Jess Walter is one of a very few "phone book" writers to me — by that I mean, he could write the phone book and I'd still read...

I expected Yaa Gyasi's sophomore novel  Transcendent Kingdom  to be heavy. It's about a Stanford neuroscientist named Gifty who grap...