A Dangerous Engagement by Ashley Weaver
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Readers will recognize the trusty formula, but Weaver injects a dose of the unfamiliar into this cozy mystery.
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Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk
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Cusk’s essays create her own roadmap to making sense of her intentional disbelief both in her life and in her stories.
Read MoreAgrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon
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Agrippina is a smart choice for those who think they probably won’t enjoy ancient Roman history.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: It was when things were most obvious that they were often most true
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Flynn shows himself to be a master of courtroom sleight of hand.
Read MoreEnd Times by Bryan Walsh
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Written in an engaging style that is by turns inviting and slightly irksome.
Read MoreWading Right In by Catherine Owen Koning & Sharon M. Ashworth
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The added charm of this book comes from its warmly human elements.
Read MoreThe Borgias by Paul Strathern
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For those new to the history of Renaissance Italy, Strathern’s book is a perfectly paced and highly readable telling of one ambitious and ruthless family.
Read MoreBirds in Winter by Roger F. Pasquier
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Birds in Winter is extensively illustrated and a perfect pitch between professional-level scientific detail and popular-level general interest.
Read MoreThe Price We Pay by Marty Makary
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An engaging and eye-opening look at the healthcare system.
Read MoreThe Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
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The march of technology and the mass of satellites overhead have done little to tame this enormous renegade world.
Read MoreThe Case Against Free Speech by P.E. Moskowitz
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A view of free speech that will challenge people of all political stances.
Read MoreSavage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
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Monroe ruminates about what might motivate today's women to consume a diet of violent crime stories.
Read MoreGods of the Upper Air by Charles King
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An account of the birth of the discipline we now think of as anthropology, bristling with the warts-and-all personalities of its pioneers.
Read MoreMarx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
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Meet Marx the philosopher, economist, journalist, historian, revolutionary, and even Marx the parent.
Read MoreTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
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The author explores the construction of her identity during the Internet’s own infancy.
Read MoreJonathan Hickman's Return to Marvel's X-Men
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House of X #1 is truly a conundrum of empowerment, silence, and fear.
Read MoreNatural Rivals by John Clayton
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Two towering figures in the history of American wildlife conservation advance and refine the concept of public lands in America.
Read MoreThe Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
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Russell’s prose is appropriately simplistic, but rich with nuance.
Read MoreThe Ghost Clause by Howard Norman
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Tells its multiple stories with a clean workmanship that feels both old-fashioned and a bit revolutionary.
Read MoreSwipe Right for Murder by Derek Milman
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Infectiously page-turning, despite being laughably silly (a familiar to Patterson fans).
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