Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America
by John Langston Gwaltney
To title this superb oral history, collected in the early '70s and published in 1980, Gwaltney chose a word that means "ordinary," but that also, unlike many terms in black English, has never quite cr... (Tom)
Maurice
by Jessixa Bagley
Jessixa Bagley is one of our favorite local children's authors, and her picture books often have a sweetly melancholic tone, which is a perfect match for this story of a Paris musician (a dog, like ev... (Tom)
Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West
by Finn Murphy
If, like me, you loved Murphy's first book, the truck-driving memoir The Long Haul, you might have wondered what he's been doing since he retired from the road. The answer: trying to cash in on the su... (Tom)
The Laughter
by Sonora Jha
As someone who opts to read few books written by straight white men, I'm the kind of reader Dr. Oliver Harding—a 56-year-old white male English professor who fears becoming obsolete and who would defi... (Anika)
The Little Village of Book Lovers
by Nina George
If you loved Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop, as I did, you’ll remember Jean Perdu created his floating bookstore, Literary Apothecary, after reading a life-changing novel about love, written... (Doree)