Books High and Low

Natsuki Takaya. Fruits Basket , Ultimate Edition, v. 1-2 (in one volume). Los Angeles: TOKYOPOP, 2007. Unnumbered. ISBN 9781427806895. Whi...

Brian Selznick. Wonderstruck . New York: Scholastic Press, 2011. 637 pages. ISBN 9780545027892. I read Brian Selznick's The Invention ...

Toinette Lippe. Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life . New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002. 257 ...

Gabrielle Zevin. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry . Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014. 258 pages. ISBN 9781616203214. ...

Emily Chantiri. The Savvy Girl's Guide to Money: Take Charge and Get the Life You Want . San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2007. 227 pages. ...

Marie Kondo. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing . Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2014. 213 p...

Darrin Zeer. Office Feng Shui: Creating Harmony in Your Work Space . San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. 102 pages. ISBN 9780811842150. ...

Laird Hunt. Neverhome . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 247 pages. ISBN 9780316370134 I really loved the first few pages, but a...

Greg McKeown. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less . New York: Crown Business, 2014. 260 pages. ISBN 9780804137386. As I've w...

I haven't been watching nearly as many movies as I used to this past year or two, so I was really happy to be able to catch three movies...

Ari Meisel. Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier . New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2014. 123 pages. ISBN 9780399168529. Less...

Amy Rowland. The Transcriptionist . Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2014. 246 pages. ISBN 9781616202545. First time novelist Amy Rowland has...

Spencer Quinn. A Fistful of Collars . New York: Atria Books, 2012. 309 pages. ISBN 9781451665161. A Fistful of Collars is another winner ...

Patrick McDonnell. The Mutts Diaries . Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2014. 222 pages. ISBN 9781449458706. I've always been a...

Brad Thor. Blowback . New York: Atria Books, 2005. 440 pages. ISBN 0743271157. Brad Thor. Foreign Intelligence . New York: Atria Books, 201...

Jennifer Haigh. Faith . New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. 318 pages. ISBN 9780060755812. After reading and completely enjoying Jennifer Ha...

Eduardo Halfon. The Polish Boxer . New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2012. 188 pages. ISBN 9781934137536. Eduardo Halfon's The Polish...

Dennis Lehane. The Drop . New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2014. 207 pages. ISBN 9780062365446. In Dennis Lehane's The Drop , a...

Lauren Oliver. Liesl & Po . New York: HarperCollins, 2011. 307 pages. ISBN 9780062014511. Liesl is an orphan who's been locked up ...

Joseph Finder. Paranoia . New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. 424 pages. ISBN 0312319142. In Joseph Finder's Paranoia , Adam Cassi...

Lauren Oliver. Rooms . New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2014. 303 pages. ISBN 9780062354426. I love a good ghost story, and Rooms doesn'...

Robert Galbraith. The Cuckoo's Calling . New York: Little, Brown, & Company, 2013. 456 pages. ISBN 9780316206853. The Cuckoo's...

Andrew Vachss. Two Trains Running . New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. 448 pages. ISBN 1400043816. I heard Andrew Vachss give a lecture...

John Verdon. Think of a Number . New York: Crown, 2010. 418 pages. ISBN 9780307588920. Think of a Number is John Verdon's first myste...

Eric Van Lustbader. Last Snow . New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2010. 414 pages. ISBN 9780765325150. Last Snow is the second book ...

The Deep Blue Sea (2012), directed by Terence Davies, is a slow, atmospheric study of the self-destructive nature of betrayal and selfishne...

David Baldacci. The Target . New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014. 420 pages. ISBN 9781455521203. Author of nearly 30 previous novels,...