The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade For Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth […]
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
The more historical fiction I read—especially when it’s paired with a contemporary narrative, like a […]
The Way of All Flesh, by Ambrose Parry
I prefer to read about new detectives rather than the polished kind of the classic […]
Dream Country, by Shannon Gibney
Who is to blame for the conditions that are turning Kollie Flomo into someone consumed […]
The Court Dancer, by Kyung-Sook Shin
Yi Jin, the protagonist of Kyung-Sook Shin’s lushly written The Court Dancer, is not just star-crossed […]
Women of the Dunes, by Sarah Maine
Libby Snow has always wanted to visit Ullaness, a rugged island on the west coast […]
Mary B, by Katherine J. Chen
Some readers are going to hate Katherine J. Chen’s Mary B: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice. […]
The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Alma Whittaker has a mind for classification, identification, detail, and scientific debate. All this makes […]
The Vanishing, by Sophia Tobin
One of the most difficult skills to learn in life is discovering who one can […]
Damnation Island, by Stacy Horn
It’s an old saw that the measure of a society is how they treat it’s […]