Dec 12
Review of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Robinson's gentle novel Gilead spans generations of fathers and sons and explores a reverend's complicated relationship with his troubled...
Oct 11
Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal, often beautiful storytelling....
Sep 3
Review of James by Percival Everett
Percival Everett's James is a fascinating retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of enslaved Black character...
Dec 12, 2023
Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
The Madstone begins as an against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty,...
Sep 21, 2023
Review of Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance by Paulette Jiles
Jiles's newest stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical fiction tracks former Union soldier John Chenneville as he travels the country...
Mar 10, 2022
Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu
In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other, a plague separates the haves...
May 14, 2021
Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal, often beautiful storytelling....
Jan 29, 2021
Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
01 Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a...
Sep 17, 2020
Review of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
I love Jiles's richly imagined historical fiction, and I'm in for her other books.
Jan 4, 2019
Review of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
Bird does an excellent job of keeping up the tension and making clear the high stakes of Williams’s enormous secret in this story, which...
Jan 26, 2018
Review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles
This is character-driven historical fiction at its best.
Jan 1, 2018
Review of The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
This beautiful book broke my heart and I just adored it.