Newsletter Archive

362 newsletters from July 2014 to present

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

Issue #230

April 29, 2019

3 books

Cover of The 100 Most Jewish Foods

Cover of Extraordinary Birds

Cover of Doctor Glas

Issue #229

April 22, 2019

3 books

Cover of Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers

Cover of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Cover of When Spring Comes to the DMZ

Issue #228

April 15, 2019

3 books

Cover of Normal People

Cover of The Slaves of Solitude

Cover of I Can Only Draw Worms

Issue #227

April 8, 2019

3 books

Cover of Afternoon of a Faun

Cover of John Crow's Devil

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

Issue #226

April 1, 2019

3 books

Cover of MacDoodle St.

Cover of My Cat Looks Like My Dad

Cover of Women Talking

Issue #225

March 25, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Cover of The Crocodile and the Dentist

Cover of How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship

Issue #224

March 18, 2019

3 books

Cover of Wild Life

Cover of How I Became Hettie Jones

Cover of Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau

Issue #223

March 11, 2019

3 books

Cover of Lost Children Archive

Cover of The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Cover of The Astonishing Color of After

Issue #222

March 4, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Heavens

Cover of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

Cover of Friday Black

Issue #221

February 25, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Orphan of Salt Winds

Cover of The Last Romantics

Cover of Front Desk

Issue #219

February 11, 2019

4 books

Cover of Where Reasons End

Cover of The Climate Report: The National Climate Assessment

Cover of You're Snug with Me

Cover of The Town House

Issue #218

February 4, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Weight of a Piano

Cover of Business Pig

Cover of Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

Issue #217

January 28, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Dreamers

Cover of Thank You, Omu!

Cover of The Great Soul of Siberia

Issue #216

January 21, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Moviegoer

Cover of My Heart

Cover of Thick: And Other Essays

Issue #215

January 14, 2019

3 books

Cover of Lake City

Cover of Harold Loves His Woolly Hat

Cover of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Issue #214

January 7, 2019

3 books

Cover of The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

Cover of Sparks!

Cover of Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape

Issue #213

December 11, 2018

3 books

Cover of Seattle Now and Then: The Historical Hundred

Cover of The Dog of the South

Cover of Got to Get to Bear's

Issue #212

December 4, 2018

1 book

Cover of Milkman

Issue #210

November 19, 2018

3 books

Cover of Land of Smoke

Cover of Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History

Cover of All-of-a-Kind Family Hannukah

Issue #209

November 12, 2018

3 books

Cover of I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Cover of Tiger Vs. Nightmare

Cover of All Our Yesterdays

Issue #208

November 5, 2018

4 books

Cover of The Alehouse at the End of the World

Cover of The Red Tenda of Bologna

Cover of The Glen Rock Book of the Dead

Cover of Carmela Full of Wishes

Issue #207

October 29, 2018

4 books

Cover of Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

Cover of The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards

Cover of Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas

Cover of Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

Issue #206

October 22, 2018

2 books

Cover of Heavy: An American Memoir

Cover of Mix-a-Mutt

Issue #205

October 15, 2018

3 books

Cover of Man with a Seagull on His Head

Cover of Crudo

Cover of The Lost Words: A Spell Book

Issue #204

October 8, 2018

3 books

Cover of The Fifth Risk

Cover of My Big Wimmelbook: Animals Around the World

Cover of Gorilla, My Love

Issue #203

October 1, 2018

3 books

Cover of Milkman

Cover of The Order of the Day

Cover of To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight

Issue #202

September 24, 2018

2 books

Cover of Henry David Thoreau: A Life

Cover of The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

Issue #201

September 17, 2018

3 books

Cover of Berlin

Cover of Ulverton

Cover of Charlotte Sometimes

Issue #200

September 10, 2018

3 books

Cover of Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs

Cover of A Big Mooncake for Little Star

Cover of War in the Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

Issue #198

August 27, 2018

3 books

Cover of Little Man, Little Man

Cover of The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

Cover of French Exit

Issue #197

August 20, 2018

3 books

Cover of Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse

Cover of Suite Française

Cover of The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq

Issue #196

August 13, 2018

3 books

Cover of A Terrible Country

Cover of A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940

Cover of The Grand Expedition

Issue #195

July 30, 2018

3 books

Cover of The Reservoir Tapes

Cover of The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness

Cover of Pagoo

Issue #194

July 23, 2018

3 books

Cover of Sabrina

Cover of Writers as Readers

Cover of The New Family Cookbook

Issue #193

July 16, 2018

5 books

Cover of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

Cover of The Gallery

Cover of The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

Cover of Arbitrary Stupid Goal

Cover of The Long Haul

Issue #192

July 9, 2018

3 books

Cover of Outline

Cover of We Don't Eat Our Classmates

Cover of Oblivion

Issue #191

June 25, 2018

3 books

Cover of There There

Cover of Salvage King, Ya!: A Herky-Jerky Picaresque

Cover of Find Colors

Issue #190

June 18, 2018

3 books

Cover of The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Cover of How to Watch Soccer

Cover of The Gallows Pole

Issue #189

June 11, 2018

3 books

Cover of Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

Cover of Ordinary Wolves

Cover of They Say Blue

Issue #188

June 4, 2018

3 books

Cover of Do Not Lick This Book

Cover of The Little Virtues

Cover of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Issue #187

May 21, 2018

3 books

Cover of The Mars Room

Cover of The Order of Time

Cover of Be Prepared

Issue #186

May 14, 2018

3 books

Cover of So Lucky

Cover of New Grub Street

Cover of Cycle City

Issue #185

May 7, 2018

3 books

Cover of Our Kind of Cruelty

Cover of Sunburn

Cover of I Hate Everyone

Issue #184

April 30, 2018

3 books

Cover of Not Here

Cover of The Women in Black

Cover of The Trumpet of the Swan

Issue #183

April 23, 2018

3 books

Cover of The Savage Detectives

Cover of Professional Crocodile

Cover of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

Issue #182

April 16, 2018

3 books

Cover of Country Dark

Cover of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Cover of Maggie and Abby's Neverending Pillow Fort

Issue #181

April 9, 2018

3 books

Cover of The Adulterants

Cover of Roadside Picnic

Cover of The Antlered Ship

Issue #180

April 2, 2018

3 books

Cover of Fever Dream

Cover of This Is M. Sasek

Cover of Lawn Boy

Issue #179

March 26, 2018

3 books

Cover of Happiness

Cover of Time Out of Joint

Cover of Wolf in the Snow

Issue #178

March 19, 2018

3 books

Cover of How to Taste

Cover of The Big Con

Cover of Fortunately