Newsletter Archive

362 newsletters from July 2014 to present

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

Issue #284

October 5, 2020

3 books

Cover of Leonard and Hungry Paul

Cover of Little Fox

Cover of The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

Issue #283

September 21, 2020

3 books

Cover of Anxious People

Cover of Three Keys

Cover of Real Life

Issue #281

August 24, 2020

3 books

Cover of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Cover of Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980

Cover of Know My Name

Issue #280

August 10, 2020

3 books

Cover of Mexican Gothic

Cover of Just in Case You Want to Fly

Cover of The City & the City

Issue #279

July 27, 2020

3 books

Cover of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

Cover of Gender Queer

Cover of Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Issue #278

July 20, 2020

3 books

Cover of The Years

Cover of A Girl's Story

Cover of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

Issue #277

July 13, 2020

3 books

Cover of Her Last Flight

Cover of The Black Jacobins

Cover of From Ed's to Ned's

Issue #276

June 29, 2020

3 books

Cover of The Vanishing Half

Cover of The Jolly Postman, or Other People's Letters

Cover of Grief

Issue #275

June 15, 2020

2 books

Cover of At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

Cover of The Marrow of Tradition

Issue #274

June 1, 2020

3 books

Cover of Sin Eater

Cover of The Living Mountain

Cover of The Little Island

Issue #273

May 18, 2020

4 books

Cover of Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader

Cover of The Unseen

Cover of Actress

Cover of Unfinished Business

Issue #272

May 4, 2020

3 books

Cover of The End of October

Cover of Midwest Futures

Cover of Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

Issue #271

April 20, 2020

3 books

Cover of Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

Cover of A Long Way from Verona

Cover of Memoirs of Hadrian

Issue #270

April 13, 2020

3 books

Cover of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Cover of Hurricane Season

Cover of Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub

Issue #269

April 6, 2020

3 books

Cover of Godshot

Cover of Afternoon of a Faun

Cover of Great

Issue #268

March 30, 2020

3 books

Cover of The Man in the Red Coat

Cover of The Glass Hotel

Cover of Normal People

Issue #267

March 23, 2020

3 books

Cover of The House in the Cerulean Sea

Cover of The Fifth Risk

Cover of House Lessons: Renovating a Life

Issue #266

March 16, 2020

3 books

Cover of Recollections of My Nonexistence

Cover of Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels

Cover of Bad Debts

Issue #265

March 9, 2020

3 books

Cover of The Island of the Sea Women

Cover of My Dark Vanessa

Cover of Everyone's Awake

Issue #264

March 2, 2020

3 books

Cover of Abigail

Cover of Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking

Cover of The Old Truck

Issue #262

February 17, 2020

3 books

Cover of A Month in Siena

Cover of Master and Commander

Cover of The Imaginaries: Little Scraps of Larger Stories

Issue #261

February 10, 2020

3 books

Cover of The Women in Black

Cover of Her First American

Cover of The Button Book

Issue #260

February 3, 2020

3 books

Cover of Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Cover of Verge

Cover of The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

Issue #259

January 27, 2020

3 books

Cover of Cleanness

Cover of The Decent Inn of Death

Cover of The Boring Book

Issue #258

January 13, 2020

3 books

Cover of Agency

Cover of Saturday

Cover of Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

Issue #257

January 6, 2020

3 books

Cover of Golden Days

Cover of A Million Dots

Cover of Oil Notes

Issue #256

December 9, 2019

1 book

Cover of The Crying Book

Issue #254

November 25, 2019

3 books

Cover of Your House Will Pay

Cover of The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

Cover of Seattle at 150: Stories of the City Through 150 Objects from the Seattle Municipal Archives

Issue #253

November 18, 2019

3 books

Cover of In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

Cover of A Big Bed for Little Snow

Cover of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Issue #252

November 4, 2019

3 books

Cover of Animalia

Cover of Roar Like a Dandelion

Cover of This Is Pleasure

Issue #251

October 28, 2019

3 books

Cover of Girl, Woman, Other

Cover of The Topeka School

Cover of Party: A Mystery

Issue #250

October 21, 2019

3 books

Cover of Stay and Fight

Cover of How to Break Up with Your Phone

Cover of The Inner Room

Issue #249

October 14, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Rider

Cover of The Hard Tomorrow

Cover of The Scarecrow

Issue #248

October 7, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

Cover of Black Hole

Cover of The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming

Issue #247

September 23, 2019

3 books

Cover of A Small Place

Cover of Talk Stories

Cover of A Stone Sat Still

Issue #246

September 16, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Yellow House

Cover of Fishes of the Salish Sea

Cover of Juliet Takes a Breath

Issue #245

September 9, 2019

3 books

Cover of Ducks, Newburyport

Cover of The Corner That Held Them

Cover of Pie in the Sky

Issue #243

August 26, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Dishwasher

Cover of Early Work

Cover of The Scarecrow

Issue #242

August 12, 2019

3 books

Cover of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Cover of The Marrow of Tradition

Cover of Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads

Issue #241

July 29, 2019

3 books

Cover of Deep River

Cover of Chronic City

Cover of Searching for Shona

Issue #240

July 22, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Salt Path

Cover of Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

Cover of Sock Story

Issue #239

July 8, 2019

3 books

Cover of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Cover of We Are Okay

Cover of Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Issue #238

June 24, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Darwin Affair

Cover of Parable of the Sower

Cover of This Was Our Pact

Issue #237

June 17, 2019

3 books

Cover of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin

Cover of Landmarks

Cover of True to Life

Issue #236

June 10, 2019

3 books

Cover of Outside the Gates

Cover of Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Cover of Yellow Yellow

Issue #235

June 3, 2019

3 books

Cover of Lanny

Cover of Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug

Cover of The Mastermind: Drugs, Empire, Murder, Betrayal

Issue #234

May 27, 2019

3 books

Cover of A Chelsea Concerto

Cover of The Worst Book Ever

Cover of The Mueller Report

Issue #233

May 20, 2019

3 books

Cover of America Is in the Heart

Cover of United Tastes of America: An Atlas of Food Facts and Recipes from Every State!

Cover of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Issue #232

May 13, 2019

3 books

Cover of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Cover of The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850

Cover of Another

Issue #231

May 6, 2019

3 books

Cover of Good Talk: A Memoir of Conversations

Cover of Sing to It

Cover of The First Rule of Punk