Newsletter Archive

362 newsletters from July 2014 to present

Browse the complete archive of Phinney Books newsletters. Each newsletter features handpicked book recommendations.

Issue #344

March 27, 2023

4 books

Cover of A Rage in Harlem

Cover of Big Swiss

Cover of Our Fort

Cover of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them

Issue #343

March 13, 2023

5 books

Cover of Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

Cover of Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Cover of The Moth Keeper

Cover of Boss

Cover of Just a Mother

Issue #340

January 30, 2023

4 books

Cover of Turtle Diary

Cover of Love's Work

Cover of Animal Land Where There Are No People

Cover of How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

Issue #339

January 16, 2023

4 books

Cover of Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Cover of The Hopkins Manuscript

Cover of The Book of Unconformities

Cover of There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

Issue #338

January 2, 2023

3 books

Cover of Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

Cover of Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan

Cover of Luminous: Living Things That Light Up the Night

Issue #336

November 14, 2022

4 books

Cover of Body Grammar

Cover of Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

Cover of The Complete Eightball 1-18

Cover of The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City

Issue #335

October 31, 2022

4 books

Cover of Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Cover of Young Man with a Horn

Cover of Farmhouse

Cover of The Hero of This Book

Issue #334

October 17, 2022

4 books

Cover of Singer Distance

Cover of Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

Cover of A Career in Books

Cover of Shadows on the Rock

Issue #333

October 3, 2022

4 books

Cover of The English Understand Wool

Cover of Five Decembers

Cover of Good Night, Little Bookstore

Cover of A Simple Story: The Last Malambo

Issue #332

September 19, 2022

4 books

Cover of So Happy for You

Cover of The Twins' Blanket

Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Cover of O Caledonia

Issue #330

August 15, 2022

4 books

Cover of Our Wives Under the Sea

Cover of The Last White Man

Cover of Winter Love

Cover of What Feelings Do When No One's Looking

Issue #329

August 1, 2022

3 books

Cover of Homesickness

Cover of Proud Shoes

Cover of Ma and Me: A Memoir

Issue #328

July 18, 2022

3 books

Cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Cover of The Wall

Cover of Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest

Issue #327

July 4, 2022

3 books

Cover of Also a Poet

Cover of Men Who Feed Pigeons

Cover of Sandfuture

Issue #326

June 20, 2022

4 books

Cover of Diary of a Film

Cover of The Book of Form and Emptiness

Cover of Aranyak: Of the Forest

Cover of Lizzy and the Cloud

Issue #325

June 6, 2022

4 books

Cover of Annihilation

Cover of Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

Cover of The Men

Cover of Exactly Where You Need to Be

Issue #324

May 23, 2022

4 books

Cover of Fruit of Knowledge

Cover of Canada Made Me

Cover of This Time Tomorrow

Cover of Tiny Cedric

Issue #323

May 9, 2022

4 books

Cover of The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

Cover of The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

Cover of Vladimir

Cover of The Midwich Cuckoos

Issue #322

April 25, 2022

4 books

Cover of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Cover of They

Cover of Spear

Cover of Emile and the Field

Issue #321

April 11, 2022

5 books

Cover of Lessons in Chemistry

Cover of Writer in a Life Vest: Essays from the Salish Sea

Cover of Eyes of the Rigel

Cover of The Shame

Cover of The Third Policeman

Issue #320

March 28, 2022

4 books

Cover of You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe

Cover of South Riding

Cover of Lawless Spaces

Cover of The Hard Sell

Issue #319

March 14, 2022

3 books

Cover of Mina

Cover of Sorrow and Bliss

Cover of All the Roads Are Open

Issue #317

February 7, 2022

4 books

Cover of The Christie Affair

Cover of Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Cover of Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives

Cover of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Issue #316

January 24, 2022

4 books

Cover of Act One: An Autobiography

Cover of The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

Cover of A Pin to See the Peepshow

Cover of When We Cease to Understand the World

Issue #315

January 10, 2022

3 books

Cover of Living with Viola

Cover of The Maids

Cover of I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

Issue #314

December 13, 2021

4 books

Cover of Small Things Like These

Cover of The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood

Cover of Time Is a Flower

Cover of I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem

Issue #312

November 15, 2021

4 books

Cover of Matrix

Cover of Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused

Cover of An Owl on Every Post

Cover of The Camping Trip

Issue #311

November 1, 2021

3 books

Cover of The War for Gloria

Cover of LaserWriter II

Cover of Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph

Issue #310

October 18, 2021

4 books

Cover of The Last Taxi Driver

Cover of The Book of Form and Emptiness

Cover of The Fortnight in September

Cover of Hardly Haunted

Issue #309

October 4, 2021

3 books

Cover of Crossroads

Cover of All Systems Red

Cover of Eight Ghosts

Issue #308

September 20, 2021

4 books

Cover of Palmares

Cover of Insignificance

Cover of Distant Fathers

Cover of Moon Pops

Issue #306

August 23, 2021

3 books

Cover of The Killing Hills

Cover of Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

Cover of Mrs. March

Issue #305

August 9, 2021

3 books

Cover of Nights Below Station Street

Cover of Ship in a Bottle

Cover of Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

Issue #304

July 26, 2021

3 books

Cover of Filthy Animals

Cover of Laidlaw

Cover of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Issue #303

July 12, 2021

4 books

Cover of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Cover of The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

Cover of The Names: A Memoir

Cover of On the Other Side of the Forest

Issue #302

June 28, 2021

3 books

Cover of The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Cover of New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

Cover of Between You, Me, and the Honeybees

Issue #301

June 14, 2021

3 books

Cover of On Juneteenth

Cover of Thomas and Beulah

Cover of Toasty

Issue #300

May 31, 2021

3 books

Cover of Brood

Cover of Local Woman Missing

Cover of Secrets of Happiness

Issue #299

May 10, 2021

5 books

Cover of Great Circle

Cover of The Promise

Cover of Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound

Cover of The Lights and Types of Ships at Night

Cover of The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth

Issue #298

April 26, 2021

3 books

Cover of Festival Days

Cover of The Tremor of Forgery

Cover of Dusty Answer

Issue #297

April 12, 2021

4 books

Cover of Philip Roth: The Biography

Cover of We Play Ourselves

Cover of The Absolute Book

Cover of Fish for Supper

Issue #296

March 29, 2021

4 books

Cover of Code Name Verity

Cover of The Devil That Danced on the Water

Cover of Where Stands a Wingèd Sentry

Cover of Ten Ways to Hear Snow

Issue #295

March 15, 2021

4 books

Cover of The Narrowboat Summer

Cover of Sunset Song

Cover of Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob

Cover of Ohana Means Family

Issue #294

March 1, 2021

3 books

Cover of Zorrie

Cover of An Inventory of Losses

Cover of A Different Drummer

Issue #292

February 1, 2021

4 books

Cover of Outlawed

Cover of Grown Ups

Cover of The Blackhouse

Cover of Laughing in the Hills

Issue #291

January 18, 2021

3 books

Cover of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

Cover of The Ice Palace

Cover of On Account of the Gum

Issue #290

January 4, 2021

1 book

Cover of No Reading Allowed: The Worst Read-Aloud Book Ever

Issue #288

November 23, 2020

3 books

Cover of Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Cover of Blades of Freedom (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #10)

Cover of Again Again

Issue #286

November 2, 2020

4 books

Cover of The Cold Millions

Cover of The Spare Room

Cover of The Owl Service

Cover of The Queen's Gambit

Issue #285

October 19, 2020

4 books

Cover of Homeland Elegies

Cover of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Cover of Sleepless Nights

Cover of Skulls!