Summer 2020 reading guide: Books to help you escape when you're stuck at home
Staying home? Let these fine books transport you this summer
JK Rowling publishes first chapters of new story online
J.K. Rowling is publishing a new story called "The Ickabog," which will be free to read online to help entertain children and families stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Review: 'One Tough Out,' by Rod Carew, with Jaime Aron
NONFICTION: Twins great Rod Carew recalls the highs and heartbreaks of his life in this fascinating memoir.
Review: 'The Black Cabinet,' by Jill Watts
NONFICTION: Historian Jill Watts examines how a black woman helped move African-American voters from the GOP to the Democrats.
Review: 'The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums,' by A. Kendra Greene
NONFICTION: A whimsical journey through Iceland's niche galleries.
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FICTION 1. Camino Winds, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead…
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Quarantine Read: 'Tarka the Otter,' by Henry Williamson
Reading “Tarka the Otter” is a beautiful, heady experience — like spending two years wandering a riverbank in rural England. The subtitle sums up…
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Review: 'Listening: Interviews 1970-1989,' by Jonathan Cott
NONFICTION: In this collection of interviews, people we think we know are richly detailed.
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Review: 'Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here,' by Nancy Wayson Dinan
FICTION: A young woman searches for a missing friend and hears the echoes of lost voices.
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Reviews: 'American Sherlock,' by Kate Winkler Dawson, and 'Swimming in the Dark,' by Tomasz Jedrowski
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics and the Birth of American CSI By Kate Winkler Dawson. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 336 pages, $27.) The latest nonfiction page-turner…
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. Camino Winds, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead…
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In a new novel, Minneapolis writer imagines Hillary Clinton's life if she hadn't married Bill
Her new novel--her second about a prominent political woman--names names and reimagines a life.
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Review: 'The Motion of the Body Through Space,' by Lionel Shriver
FICTION: A husband takes up triathlon training just as his athlete wife's knees fail her in this satire by controversial writer Lionel Shriver.
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Review: 'Rodham' imagines Hillary's life as the road not taken
FICTION: The author of "American Wife" offers another take on a former First Lady in her new novel "Rodham."
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REVIEWS: 'The Other Bennet Sister,' by Janice Hadlow, and 'Elsey Come Home' by Susan Conley
The Other Bennet Sister By Janice Hadlow. (Henry Holt, 448 pages, $28.) Jane Austen was most ungenerous to Mary Bennet. The middle of five…
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Quarantine read: Lee Smith's "Blue Marlin"
Lee Smith’s novella “Blue Marlin” can be read in an afternoon — a really pleasant afternoon. Like all of Smith’s books, it’s wise and funny,…
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Review: 'The Equivalents,' by Maggie Doherty
NONFICTION: The story behind a groundbreaking program that gave time and space to women artists in the 1960s.
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Review: 'Enemy of All Mankind,' by Steven Johnson
NONFICTION: An adventure-filled life that feels plucked from swashbuckling fiction.
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Review: "You Will Never Be Forgotten," by Mary South
FICTION: Mary South's short stories are shot through with ghosts of love and grief.
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Bookmark: Independent bookstores get creative
I don’t know about you, but I miss bookstores. I miss browsing through musty used books and happening upon a treasure — a title I…
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Independent book stores finding path to survival during virus outbreak
People have more time to read or assemble jigsaw puzzles.
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. If It Bleeds, by Stephen King. (Scribner) Four novellas: “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” “The Life of Chuck,” “Rat” and “If It Bleeds.” 2.…
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Reviews: 'The Last Day,' by Andrew Hunter Murray, and 'In the Land of Men,' by Adrienne Miller
The Last Day By Andrew Hunter Murray. (Dutton, 384 pages, $27.) Welcome to Earth in 2059. It’s not pretty. Forty years earlier, the planet’s…
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Review: 'A Children's Bible,' by Lydia Millet
FICTION: In Lydia Millet's clever allegorical novel, neglected teenagers are left to clean up their parents' mess.
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Review: 'Strange Hotel,' by Eimear McBride
FICTION: A woman comes to terms with her past and her identity in a series of hotel rooms.
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