Books High and Low

  Writer and psychologist Mikita Brottman shares her experiences running a weekly book club in a Maryland prison for two years. The club con...

  With this riveting memoir, former Penn State President Graham Spanier recounts his experiences surrounding his resignation from the pres...

  This is a well-written history of late 9th century and early 10th century England. While there isn't a lot known about Edward the Elde...

  This is a charming novel about Mr. Malik, a retired Kenyan businessman of Indian descent who spends his time hanging with friends at his c...

  This is an excellent collection of perceptive and gut-wrenching stories about the experience of Jews and others in Poland during the Holoc...

  This is an entertaining, although completely implausible, thriller focusing on three women at the center of this mystery surrounding the d...

  Hill’s heart-wrenching, emotional tale begins with a sordid account of his drug use at the funeral of a close friend before he takes the...

  I really enjoyed this short (220 page) novel by Chitra Divakaruni. A random group of people are trapped in a visa office in an Indian cons...

  I loved this memoir by Michelle Zauner, a Korean American writer and musician, about her relationship with her mother. As Zauner exits a d...

  Jean Rhys is best known as the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, a 1966 prequel of sorts to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, in which Rhys used he...