Newsletter Archive

362 newsletters from July 2014 to present

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

Issue #177

March 12, 2018

3 books

Cover of Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History

Cover of Still Stuck

Cover of Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

Issue #176

March 5, 2018

3 books

Cover of The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s

Cover of Baby Monkey, Private Eye

Cover of All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of

Issue #175

February 26, 2018

3 books

Cover of Vengeance

Cover of LiarTown: The First Four Years, 2013-2017

Cover of Circle, Triangle, Elephant: A Book of Shapes and Surprises

Issue #174

February 19, 2018

3 books

Cover of Don't Skip Out on Me

Cover of Before & After

Cover of Mrs.

Issue #172

February 5, 2018

3 books

Cover of Gilgamesh

Cover of Heart Berries

Cover of Marcel the Shell

Issue #171

January 30, 2018

3 books

Cover of The Wizard and the Prophet

Cover of Open House for Butterflies

Cover of Mrs. Caliban

Issue #170

January 23, 2018

2 books

Cover of The Job of the Wasp

Cover of Far from the Tree

Issue #169

January 16, 2018

4 books

Cover of The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Cover of Priestdaddy

Cover of Smart About Sharks

Cover of Crazy About Cats

Issue #168

January 9, 2018

3 books

Cover of Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story

Cover of Triple Decker Trivia

Cover of Which Side Are You On?

Issue #167

January 2, 2018

3 books

Cover of Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

Cover of Ballet

Cover of American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank

Issue #166

December 11, 2017

1 book

Cover of Spy of the First Person

Issue #165

December 4, 2017

3 books

Cover of Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

Cover of Magpie Murders

Cover of The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By

Issue #163

November 20, 2017

3 books

Cover of Reservoir 13

Cover of The Lost Estate

Cover of Runebinder

Issue #162

November 13, 2017

3 books

Cover of Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Cover of Rosemary's Baby

Cover of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

Issue #161

November 6, 2017

3 books

Cover of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

Cover of The Land of Little Rain

Cover of Tell Me a Mitzi

Issue #160

October 30, 2017

3 books

Cover of Queen of Spades

Cover of Sister Carrie

Cover of Where's Halmoni?

Issue #159

October 23, 2017

3 books

Cover of We Were Eight Years in Power

Cover of City Folk and Country Folk

Cover of The Wolf, the Duck & the Mouse

Issue #158

October 16, 2017

3 books

Cover of The House of Government

Cover of The Book of Disquiet

Cover of The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Issue #157

October 9, 2017

3 books

Cover of Wise Children

Cover of I Love You More Than the Smell of Swamp Gas

Cover of Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

Issue #156

October 2, 2017

3 books

Cover of Erratic Facts

Cover of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Cover of Goodnight Krampus

Issue #155

September 25, 2017

4 books

Cover of The Twelve-Mile Straight

Cover of Days Without End

Cover of I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups

Cover of I'm Just No Good at Rhyming

Issue #154

September 18, 2017

2 books

Cover of Ranger Games

Cover of All's Faire in Middle School

Issue #153

September 11, 2017

3 books

Cover of My Absolute Darling

Cover of Making Movies

Cover of Chibi Samurai Wants a Pet

Issue #151

August 28, 2017

3 books

Cover of The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Cover of In a Lonely Place

Cover of Chicken Butt

Issue #150

August 21, 2017

3 books

Cover of The Book of Emma Reyes

Cover of Everything Is Flammable

Cover of Outside Over There

Issue #149

August 14, 2017

3 books

Cover of Henry David Thoreau: A Life

Cover of The End of Vandalism

Cover of This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World

Issue #148

August 7, 2017

3 books

Cover of Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City

Cover of Ghosts of Seattle Past: An Anthology of Lost Seattle Places

Cover of Waterway: The Story of Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal

Issue #147

July 31, 2017

3 books

Cover of You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Cover of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

Cover of The End of Eddy

Issue #146

July 24, 2017

3 books

Cover of Arbitrary Stupid Goal

Cover of Little Wolf's First Howling

Cover of Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin

Issue #145

July 17, 2017

3 books

Cover of Golden Hill

Cover of The ACB with Honora Lee

Cover of Dangerous Liaisons

Issue #144

July 10, 2017

3 books

Cover of Dear Cyborgs

Cover of A Heart So White

Cover of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

Issue #143

June 19, 2017

3 books

Cover of Townie

Cover of Claymates

Cover of Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table

Issue #142

June 12, 2017

4 books

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

Cover of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell

Cover of Bullfight

Cover of The Long Haul

Issue #141

June 5, 2017

3 books

Cover of The Essex Serpent

Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Cover of Hilda and the Troll

Issue #140

May 22, 2017

3 books

Cover of The Leavers

Cover of With Animal

Cover of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Issue #139

May 15, 2017

4 books

Cover of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

Cover of The Book of Mistakes

Cover of Putin Country

Cover of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

Issue #138

May 8, 2017

4 books

Cover of Love and Trouble: A Mid-Life Reckoning

Cover of Rocket Boy

Cover of A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

Cover of Love and Trouble

Issue #137

May 1, 2017

2 books

Cover of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Cover of I Remember

Issue #135

April 17, 2017

2 books

Cover of Compass

Cover of Town Is by the Sea

Issue #134

April 10, 2017

3 books

Cover of Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Cover of Brat Farrar

Cover of Noisy Night

Issue #133

April 3, 2017

3 books

Cover of The Stranger in the Woods

Cover of Illuminature

Cover of Exit West

Issue #132

March 27, 2017

3 books

Cover of Fever Dream

Cover of Six Drawing Lessons

Cover of Stína

Issue #131

March 20, 2017

3 books

Cover of Dadland

Cover of Amerika

Cover of The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Issue #130

March 13, 2017

3 books

Cover of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Cover of Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea

Cover of Leave Me Alone!

Issue #129

March 6, 2017

2 books

Cover of Lincoln in the Bardo

Cover of Little Fox in the Forest

Issue #128

February 27, 2017

3 books

Cover of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Cover of The Souls of Black Folk

Cover of The Story of Gilgamesh

Issue #127

February 20, 2017

3 books

Cover of Swimming Lessons

Cover of The Oppermanns

Cover of Antoinette

Issue #125

February 6, 2017

3 books

Cover of Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists

Cover of In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

Cover of The Day I Became a Bird

Issue #124

January 30, 2017

3 books

Cover of Transit

Cover of Aftermath

Cover of The Murderer's Ape

Issue #123

January 23, 2017

3 books

Cover of The Correspondence

Cover of What Belongs to You

Cover of The Nutshell Board Books