Startling tale of fraud, murder, and impunity in Yemen but more in global shipping and Lloyds of London.

Book 2 in the Father/Daughter-in-Law Duo who solve murders...super fun read

A classic, insightful, great American novel - satirizes the norms of the day - racism, hypocrisy, human cruelty.

The history of the totally avoidable Challenger disaster.

The Catcher in the Rye in college in Japan in the the late 60's. Coming of age, romance, loss, loneliness, intense.

Very interesing...but it is a whole lot of Nazis - very long book

Thrilling page turner about German "Democratic" Republic. Scary. Tyranny not good.

Huckleberry Finn from the slave Jim's perspective. Very informative, thoughtful. Farfetched at times. 4.5 really.

Stand Alone Art Mystery by Mayle - same as the Caper Series, an enjoyable bach read

First book in a series around Joey Goldman, a failed mobster who moves to Key West. Fun read.

The Roman Republic and then Empire in all its pomp, cruelty, and (sometime) wisdom.

Mini-biographies of the most notable of the leaders of ancient Rome.

Book 3 in Caper Series

Book 4 in Caper Series

A murder in Maine sends the family to the New Hampshire farm, where daughters Nora and Lucy begin to heal.

A continuing series by Dorsey all based around a copule of characters in Florida. Yet another beach read..it's summer!

Book 5 in Thursday Murder Club Series

Hilarious account of dystopian marriage, objectification, and substitutes for intimacy. Funny, really!

Book in 2 in Caper Series

An exploration of the author's interactions with Octopuses (not Octopi) - it's fascinating.

Series of Mysteries in Provence, France - Beach Reads, very enjoyable

How you think you have free will, but actually do not.

Book 4 in Thursday Murder Club Series

Book 1 in a new series - Father/Daughter-in-Law Duo who solver murders.

Extremely readable history of the stock market crash of 1929 - reads more like a novel.

Book 3 in Thursday Murder Club Series

Heavy subject matter: the guy's wife dies, book is about the year after she dies. Lots of flashbacks to his childhood, and the rest of his life, dysfunctional family. Makes you think of stuff you don't want to think about. Good writing, big words - some I looked up, very interesting. Booker Prize winner.

Dan Brown book similar to Da Vinci Code - fun read, bit predictable.

Intellectual analysis of the factual basis for religious belief

Collection of short stories. Gritty, real life, 1970's and 1980's. Straight forward writing.

Good educatoinal book - learned a lot about Tb and how the capitalist world works - life is not fair (duh!).

The second of a 3 part trilogy on the American Revolution. Who will win?!? Guess we will have to wait for Book 3!

Historical fiction set in England, Burma. Travelogue like, turned out to have twist in the end, great descriptioins, I couldn't put it down.

Academics research the previously unknown love between famous fictional poets Ash and LaMotte.

Rated one of the best books of 2025. 5 soldiers in WW1 encounters an angel on the battlefield. The whole book is one sentence. Violence in graphic detail. Horror, fantasy. I didn't quite get it.

Discovered this book in the footnotes of Believe, interesting but gets a bit "in the weeds".

Very predictable Dan Brown book about a meteor with extraterrestrial life discovered in the ice

Book 2 in Thursday Murder Club Series

Chinese doctor wastes decades waiting to be granted a divorce. Finally gets it, wonders why.

How China's gig economy helped the author launch his writing career, with hard work as star.

Pop Science examination of emerging plant science.

The life of Claude Shannon, American genius. Amazing man, tedious writing, horrible audiobook narrator.

Barbara Kingsolver's intro convinced me. She reads it every year. "Well into the 1990's many conservatives idenfied as environmentalists...". Another Thoreau or Rachel Carson.

See Blue Lightning

See Blue Lightning

A Brooklyn writer faces illness and creative uncertainty as he navigates friendship and time.

The third of a 3 part Sci-Fi trilogy about the colonization of mars.

See Blue Lightning

A saga of a Scottish family (clan) that emigrated to Cape Breton, NS. Hopes, dreams, tragedy, hardship, love, family, hardy people, did I say hardship ?

Non linear narrative, semi-autobiographical novel about a British Spy who disappears after his father's death

Funny, irreverant, acerbic humor, cruel, did I say acerbic humor, reality hurts.

See Blue Lightning

Odd rural Polish woman investigates animal-linked murders, blurs lines between justice, nature, and revenge.

I was in Ireland, so had to read a classic. I am sure it was a hit back when - very real, descriptive of lives there, then.

The second of a 3 part Sci-Fi trilogy about the colonization of mars.

The first of a 3 part Sci-Fi trilogy about the colonization of mars.

This entire series is endearing, lovely and you won't be able to put them down.

Two sisters raised by eccentric relatives in a remote Idaho town face loss, transience, and the pull of freedom.

Rated one of the best books of 2025. Novel about a burnt out woman seekng refuge in a convent. Plague of mice, grief, old memories. Maybe I just didn't get it.

An insightful guide to an important, subtle, and difficult topic in Buddhist philosophy.

Written back in the naive days of 2024 when we still had hope - hope for things like environmental justice

A Western Massachusetts house and the lives in and around it across centuries.

Former brilliant scientist turned middle school teacher is called upon to save earth, engaging read.

Comprehensive biography examines his transformation from a war hero to America's most infamous traitor

Back in Lisbon after 16 years as a doctor in Brazil, RR wanders the streets. He runs into his poet friend Fernando Passeo dressed in the suit he was buried in 6 weeks prior. It is 1936, the clouds of fascism are moving in....

He was the founder of New France, and had a vision of a peaceful, multicultural colony in North America.

Wealthy New York lawyer struggles between duty and desire as he chooses societal expectations over true love.

Care for forests by understanding them, supporting natural processes, and valuing all their wild complexity.

The consequences of living without meaning, and maybe what a good death might be.

The true story of the love, crime, and obsession of art thief Stephane Breitwieser.

Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time after surviving the fire-bombing of Dresden. So it goes.

The first of a 3 part trilogy on the American Revolution

A great civil-war era racehorse, his trainer, and the reseachers who discover their stories.

Disgraced professor moves to his daughter's house where bad things happen.

Simple man trying to live simply in complicated, war-torn South Africa.

Gritty and gripping report on a brutal US position in the Afghan war, source for the movie Restrepo.

The author's career defending mostly poor and disavantaged clients, largely death penalty, in the South.

Pulitzer-winning send-up of a semi-successful gay writer who runs but can't hide from his ex's wedding.

See Blue Lightning

Chronicles the history and impact of the cod fish on global economies and cultures.

See Blue Lightning

I liked the writing. Did I say I liked the writing ?

Biography and final harrowing adventures of snowboarding legend Craig Kelly, who died in a BC avalanche.

Details the events leading up to World War I and its first month of battles.

Life and times of Guy Waterman - conscience of the Northeast US mountains and troubled soul.

Chronicles a 16th-century Spanish expedition's survival in North America.

See Blue Lightning

A humorous family saga involving two sisters and their father's marriage to a younger woman.

Ann Cleeve's Shetland series is a British mystery series following a detective in the Shetland Islands, largely read by retired British women.

A dying preacher reflects on his life and legacy in a letter to his young son.

Explores the psychological benefits of Buddhist practices and philosophy.

Follows Holden Caulfield's journey through New York City after being expelled from school.

A novel based on the true story of a young Italian's efforts to save Jews during WWII.

Their different paths – Bruno’s in the mountains, Pietro’s across the world – test the strength of their connection.

We think we know what the world is "like" - but our experience is uniquely human, and animals' are unique too.

Satirical adventures of Lemuel Gulliver to various fantastical lands.

An introduction to the fundamental teachings of Buddhism.

A satirical novel about an Asian American actor trapped in stereotypical roles.

Great short stories from the best Short Story Writer in English.

One-act play by my friend Ira. Fun and a bit outrageous.

Chronicles the lifelong friendship of two academic couples.

An aging news reader escorts a rescued girl across post-Civil War Texas.

Follows expatriates in 1920s Europe seeking meaning after World War I.

A tale of love and war during the Spanish Civil War.

Tale of an 18th-century British shipwreck and the moral, physical, and political trials faced by its survivors.

A retelling of the life of Mary, mother of Jesus, from her perspective.

Philosophical essays defending the right to adopt a believing attitude in religious matters.