Made-Up Books

Ever since I read an advance copy of The Narrow Road to the Deep North a couple of months ago I've been looking forward to telling you how good it is. I'll be surprised if I read a better book this ye... (Tom)

"It's the books that have the power, but a good bookstore will influence what a person chooses to read." So ponders Mort, one of several endearing characters in Acampora's novel of literary rebellion,... (Kim)

Can there be a Dr. Seuss book that's actually underrated? Though it's overshadowed by the tongue-twister nonsense of Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks and by (Tom)

Denis Johnson may well be the best writer going. He can do big, in the Vietnam epic Tree of Smoke, and small, in the stories of Jesus' Son and in this haunting jewel, which appeared in The Paris Revie... (Tom)

This is the best novel I've read in I don't know how long. Written in the '60s about Australia in the '40s and recently republished, it's about two sisters who live first with their mother and then a... (Tom)

We Were Liars is the perfect book to give you chills on a hot summer day. Summer after summer, Cadence's family has met up on their private island where everything is perfect and everyone is perfect.... (Leighanne)