Category: FICTION

February 4, 2025

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich **** (of 4)

In a small farming town in North Dakota, sugar beet farming is almost as much everybody's livelihood as keeping track of one's neighbor's business. Kismet,...

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February 4, 2025

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke *** (of 4)

The Civil War has come to Louisiana. Union soldiers are making advances, but slavery, and its cruelties persist. The experience of war, and its changing...

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January 3, 2025

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon *** (of 4)

Athenian soldiers attacked ancient Syracuse (Sicily) in 414 BCE, expecting a quick victory. They lost. Athenian soldiers were captured and held in a quarry on...

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December 13, 2024

Creation Lake ** (of 4) by Rachel Kushner

A left-wing philosopher advocates that it is time for humanity to returning to nature, but sends his diatribes via e-mail. Acolytes reading his emails in...

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December 13, 2024

The Coldest Warrior by Paul Vidich *** (of 4)

In the late 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, an American scientist, Charles Wilson, was working on chemical weapons in service to the...

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November 20, 2024

In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy *** (of 4)

Investigative journalist Tom Klay works for a renowned globally recognized photo-journal called Sovereign but is really National Geographic.

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November 4, 2024

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead *** (of 4)

No one does a better job of capturing an era (early 1970s), a place (Harlem), or characters. New York City is on the verge of...

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October 1, 2024

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro *** (of 4)

Spooky. Kids in a residential British school called Hailsham are raised to be donors. Their days are filled with what you would expect: studying, confidential...

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October 1, 2024

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese **** (of 4)

In the fictional riverside town of Parambil, in Kerala, India, 12-year-old Big Ammachi is taken from her home at the beginning of the 20th century...

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August 7, 2024

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah **** (of 4)

Loretta Thurwar and Hurricane Staxxx are two of the greatest all-star fighters in history. Each woman has risen through the ranks of prisoners competing for...

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