Books High and Low

  These are two novellas written by celebrated Hebrew novelist S.Y. Agnon, who was the recipient of the Nobel prize in Literature in 1966. B...

I'm a big fan of Tom Papa's standup, which led me to this book of essays. Papa is very funny, and the essays included here cover som...

I have to admit that I approached this book with some skepticism since I disliked her earlier book, Eileen . I'm sorry to say that I did...

  This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that follows a young woman who's lost her husband and son in a car crash (although she swears sh...

  This was a really interesting book in which the author Lori Gottlieb, a therapist, writes about her own need for therapy when she experien...

I enjoyed this historical novel, based loosely on the two authors' family histories, that tells the story of a Jewish Northerner, Jacob ...

  I really liked this retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the enslaved man Jim's viewpoint. I found the story to be al...

  In the 19th century, women who wished to become doctors had limited opportunities to study because they were not welcome in most America...

  I have mixed feelings about this book. I like fantasy and time travel books, as well as historical fiction, so this book seemed like a pro...

  I really loved this novel by James McBride about a diverse collection of people living in Pottstown, Pennsylvania during the 1930s and 197...

  I have mixed feelings about this 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a nerdy second-generation Dominican American man who is highly in...

  Moran’s (history and women’s studies, The Pennsylvania State University; Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Mode...

I really enjoyed this small collection of 16 poems by twelve authors. Many of them were familiar from my school days (Henry Wadsworth Longfe...

I loved this novel by Ruth Rendell. It's the story of 16 years old Liza, who has been kept isolated on the estate where her mother works...

This is a fast-paced thriller that follows an armored-car heist, the FBI lead on the case, a seasoned reporter, and a key eye witness to the...

  This was an enjoyable and intriguing novel about a woman whose semi-estranged brother drags her into an investigation into their father...