• Top Book Reviews

    Review

    Woodworking

    Erica Skyberg is a popular English teacher and long-time community theater director, preparing to put on a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. She's more or less a pillar of the community, even ...

    Read Review

    Beyond the Book

    Transgender Support Organizations Serving Rural America

    In Emily St. James's debut novel, Woodworking, the protagonist, Erica, must travel more than an hour each way, from Mitchell to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to attend a support group for transgender...

    Read Article

  • Top Book Reviews

    Review

    Theft

    Karim is the result of an unhappy marriage. His father is completely absent from his life after his parents' divorce, and his mother is emotionally distant and neglectful, then absent as well after ...

    Read Review

    Beyond the Book

    The Blue Mosque

    In Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel Theft, multiple characters dream of seeing the world, but only some have the privilege of doing so in reality. Badar, whose economic situation puts travel out of reach, ...

    Read Article

  • Top Book Reviews

    Review

    A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe

    Set predominantly in 2020, during the onset of COVID and resulting lockdowns, A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe brings together a chorus of different voices, most of them young New Yorkers,...

    Read Review

    Beyond the Book

    The Social Impact of COVID-19 on Young Adults

    COVID-19 has had an immense impact on people of all ages, in all stages of life, and in all parts of the world. Mahogany L. Browne's novel A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe focuses on the ...

    Read Article

  • Top Book Reviews

    Review

    Theory & Practice

    In Michelle de Kretser's novel Theory & Practice, the first-person narrator undertakes graduate studies in Melbourne in 1986, when academia is steeped in French poststructuralist theory — ...

    Read Review

    Beyond the Book

    Virginia Woolf's The Years, British Empire, and Narrative Form

    The Years is the last of Virginia Woolf's novels to be published during her lifetime, in 1937. Beginning in 1880 and following three generations of the Pargiter family across five decades to the '...

    Read Article

  • Top Book Reviews

    Review

    Raising Hare

    Chloe Dalton, a political adviser who has worked in the UK parliament, wrote her first book, Raising Hare, about caring for a baby hare in the English countryside. First Impressions readers absolutely...

    Read Review

    Beyond the Book

    What's a Hare? Isn't It Just a Rabbit? Actually, No

    While commenting on Chloe Dalton's memoir Raising Hare, about her experience rescuing a wild baby hare, some of our First Impressions reviewers mentioned the common misperception that a hare is a ...

    Read Article

  • Top Book Reviews

    Review

    Universality

    A bar of gold decorates banker Richard's farmhouse mantelpiece. The same also adorns the cover of Natasha Brown's second novel, a reference to the object that sets the story in motion. Universality ...

    Read Review

    Beyond the Book

    New Journalism

    In 1963, Jimmy Breslin chronicled the death of John F. Kennedy from the point of view of the man who dug his grave. Instead of joining the big names in journalism in awaiting statements of grief from ...

    Read Article
1
2
3
4
5
6
PrevNext

Join BookBrowse

For a year of great reading about exceptional books!

Find Out More

Genres & Themes

What's New

Book Clubs

Read-Alikes

Beyond the Book

Young Adults

Members Recommend

  • Book Jacket

    Jane and Dan at the End of the World
    by Colleen Oakley

    Date Night meets Bel Canto in this hilarious tale.

  • Book Jacket

    The Antidote
    by Karen Russell

    A gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.

New In Paperback

  • Book Jacket: Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  • Book Jacket: Clear
  • Book Jacket: Leaving
  • Book Jacket: Held
  • Book Jacket: Long Island
PrevNext

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.