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Great Circle
by Maggie Shipstead
Get Swept Up In This (10/26/2022)
"Great Circle" by Maggie Shipstead weaves together two stories about a revolutionary female pilot with a troubled background and the actress selected to portray her. The author wastes no time in illuminating the horrors of incest, hypersexuality, and death. Both tales havemore
Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Will Keep You Guessing (10/25/2022)
"Firekeeper's Daughter" by Angeline Boulley tells the story of meth processing in the Native American community. They have a strong sense of values and history and tell their children to think seven generations ahead when making decisions.

They list the novel as "young adult,more
A Million Things
by Emily Spurr
Hoard Copies of This (10/25/2022)
“A Million Things” by Emily Spurr takes a semi-common theme and mixes it with a new narrative style. Rae ends up “home alone” when her mother disappears, but she narrates and writes in a diary to her parent. She keeps her head down and avoids attention until her oldermore
The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
by Amor Towles
Such an Adventure (10/25/2022)
"The Lincoln Highway' by Amor Towles has a lot of ambition, telling a 576-page book from multiple points of view that takes place over ten days. He also does not use quotation marks, which takes a little adjusting. However, it is, at its core, a road trip that keeps goingmore
Stories from Suffragette City
by M.J. Rose, Fiona Davis
Essential Piece of History (10/25/2022)
October 23rd, 1915: "Stories from Suffragette City" has the ambitious goal of telling you 13 different stories that take place on this important day in Women's history. Think about what this meant across the span of social classes. The first entry, "Apple Season" by Lisamore
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dystopian Brilliance (10/25/2022)
“Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro qualifies as “speculative fiction,” a giant “what-if” to a society that has pushed the limits of Artificial Intelligence and showed its limitations as well. Which parts of the human experience would escape even the most advancedmore
The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
Not What You Would Expect (10/25/2022)
“The Sweetness of Water” by Nathan Harris continues the tradition of emotionally moving novels based on the Reconstruction. It weaves together two stories, one about formerly enslaved people and another about Confederate soldiers, both scary when you consider the context.more
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson
Smart but Accessible (10/25/2022)
“The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race” by Walter Isaacson takes its science seriously and dumbs down absolutely nothing. I am neither the smartest nor dumbest guy in the room, but I had never heard the term CRISPR before crackingmore
The Forest of Vanishing Stars: A Novel
by Kristin Harmel
Could Be The Best of the Bunch (10/25/2022)
“The Forest of Vanishing Stars” by Kristen Harmel recommends itself to fans of “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” and “Where the Crawdads Sing.” I had my skepticism, but that same book is killing it. I have read many slavery/Reconstruction novels and Holocaust/World War IImore
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
Too Strange to be Real (10/25/2022)
"The Personal Librarian" by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray continues the tradition of "Gentleman's Agreement," "Focus," or the underrated "The Human Stain," in which a character hides their ethnicity in a discriminatory environment. For anyone tired of racemore
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
by Dawn Turner
Solid Non-Fiction (10/25/2022)
"The Secret Keeper of Jaipur" by Alka Joshi starts when a much-hyped theater watches its balcony collapse, and we then move backward to experience the back story. Luckily, the author provides a cast of characters like a glossary since those with limited attention spans willmore
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur: The Jaipur Trilogy #2
by Alka Joshi
A Great Piece of Culture (10/25/2022)
"The Secret Keeper of Jaipur" by Alka Joshi starts when a much-hyped theater watches its balcony collapse, and we then move backward to experience the back story. Luckily, the author provides a cast of characters like a glossary since those with limited attention spans willmore
Lightning Strike: Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #18
by William Kent Krueger
Great Prequel (10/25/2022)
“Lightning Strike” by William Kent Krueger has outstanding storytelling and suffers only from our knowledge of other similar novels: if Native American elder Big John’s death is a suicide, we would have no story. Instead, we get meditation and explore a culture’s opinion ofmore
The Magician: A Novel
by Colm Toibin
Good, but Wide in Scope (10/25/2022)
Colm Toibin's "The Magician", may target a more intelligent or informed audience than yours truly. It takes kernels of truth from the life of German novelist Thomas Mann and tells fictionalized tales from 1881-1950.

For many reasons, Germany was a tumultuous place to be atmore
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World: A Novel
by Laura Imai Messina
Strangely Life-Affirming (10/25/2022)
"The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World" by Laura Imai Messina tells a fictional story about a real place. In Japan, someone set up a "wind phone," an unhooked device designed to communicate with lost loved ones after the tsunami.

The main character, Yui, often bringsmore
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
Best of the Year? (10/25/2022)
"Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir only suffers from comparisons to other books of its genre. If you have recently seen "Arrival" or "The Shape of Water," you expect a much different story.
Unlike most book flaps, this reveals very little to the reader before they enjoy it. Itmore
Bewilderment: A Novel
by Richard Powers
A Doozy (10/25/2022)
“Bewilderment” by Richard Powers only has one flaw: it is not “The Overstory," his sweeping epic combined stories about trees to meditate on the importance of all living things. Instead, an astrobiologist must raise a son, who may be on the Spectrum, on his own andmore

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