Wading 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.
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The 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).
Read MoreThe Twentysomething Soul by Tim Clydesdale & Kathleen Garces-Foley
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A very readable guide surveying the inner faith-lives of a generation most Americans find baffling at best.
Read MoreProfessor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad
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Solstad’s prose is efficient, curlicued with self-reflection, wrapping itself around patches of dry irony with ease.
Read MoreInland by Téa Obreht
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A novel guaranteed to appear on every “most anticipated” list before a word of it had been written.
Read MoreKnow-It-All Society by Michael Patrick Lynch
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Lynch encourages us to quest for knowledge by constant inquiry.
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