Books High and Low

I really enjoyed this memoir by journalist Clarissa Ward, currently the chief international correspondent for CNN. She studied comparative l...

This is a thoughtful and intimate look at the short presidential run of Kamala Harris in 2024. The chapters are numbered by how many days ar...

I really enjoyed this sixth book in Ruth Downie's Medicus series about a doctor in the Roman army in the 2nd century. In this book Gaius...

The narrator of  Murder in Mesopotamia  is Nurse Amy Leatherman who has traveled to Mesopotamia to accompany a patient, planning to travel h...

This is a very good fictionalized examination of Rosalind Franklin's career as a scientist in 1940s and 1950s England and France. She ca...

This is the third novel in the Slow Horses series by Mick Herron. It continues the story of a bunch of exiled MI5 officers who are assigned ...

This is an interesting and heartfelt memoir by a woman who has founded three bookstores that operate not only as bookstores but also as comm...

I really loved this fantasy about a woman who gets a new husband every time he goes into the attic. She tries out some of the husbands for a...

In this second book in Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford mystery series, both Inspector Wexford and his DI Mike Burdon take a back seat i...

In this book, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Angela Duckworth shares her own and others' research about what makes some...

  This is a very moving book about what people need to think about as they approach end of life. Author Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer, a...

  In this fifth mystery in the Gaius Petreius Ruso series about a doctor attached to the Roman army in 2nd century Britain, Ruso uncovers co...

I really enjoyed this mystery, Agatha Christie's 11th with Hercule Poirot and the first featuring a serial killer. Poirot's friend C...

  This is a page-turner of a novel that I just couldn't put down. College professor and recently divorced Phoebe goes to a resort hotel ...

In an engaging and entertaining collection of stories and research, author Charles Duhigg shares how habits form and how they can be changed...

  I really enjoyed this second book in the Slow Horses series by author Mick Herron. The story begins when a retired spy notices a former So...

  I really loved this first novel by author Shelby Van Pelt. It's about a woman named Tova Sullivan who has endured significant loss ove...

I did not love this horror novel about a young woman, Ingrid, who goes off to the Everglades for a weekend visit with Mayra, a friend she ha...

  I did not care for this book at all. Two families have been friends since childhood, but the adults all seem to resent and even dislike ea...

  I really enjoyed this true story about a husband and wife, both enslaved, who escape the south by disguising themselves as a master and sl...

  This is an amazing work of contemporary history. In it, author Danielle Leavitt profiles seven Ukrainians during the first 18 months of th...

  I've been reading about what a great TV series this is, but since I don't currently subscribe to Apple TV, I decided to read the b...

  I continue to be impressed with the excellent writing in this series.  Caveat emptor  is the 4th in the Medicus series which follows a 2nd...

In this 4th volume in the Libertus Roman series, author Rosemary Rowe has presented us with the sudden death of Perennis Felix, a high-ranki...

  This is the 10th Hercule Poirot mystery that I've read and features Poirot solving a crime that took place in an airplane cabin while ...

  Dispatches from the couch is about the author’s three-year odyssey in therapy to address her issues resulting from sexual abuse when sh...

  I didn't care much for this book the second time around (I read it before back in 2014). The main character, Cady, is a member of a we...

Murder in the dollhouse is a true crime non-fiction book about the disappearance of a wealthy socialite from Connecticut. Jennifer Dulos gr...