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Geraldine Brooks' new book "Memorial Days" joins Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking" (2005) and Michelle Zauner’s “Crying in H Mart” (2021) as memoirs of grief worth seeking out. (Knopf / Viking)

Biblioracle: Geraldine Brooks’ memoir ‘Memorial Days’ is about the meaning of love and loss

February 3, 2025 at 12:52 p.m.

Her new book recounts her experiences after the sudden death of her husband, the writer Tony Horwitz. It is not just another book about grief.

“The Mailman," by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, publishes on Jan. 28 (Mysterious Press). The most recent Jack Reacher novel is last October's "In Too Deep" by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte Press).

Biblioracle: ‘The Mailman’ by Andrew Welsh-Huggins is a new thriller with a hero both like and unlike Jack Reacher

January 25, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

“The Mailman” does all the necessary work of establishing a new hero, while also delivering a genuinely involving and suspenseful action thriller.

Author Adam Haslett on Aug. 29, 2002, in New York; his new book "Mothers and Sons." (Suzanne Plunkett / AP / Little, Brown and Company)

Biblioracle: In Adam Haslett’s new novel ‘Mothers and Sons,’ family ties run deep

January 18, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

“Mothers and Sons” explores how we both love and harm those who are closest to us, sometimes simultaneously.

Biblioracle: British satirist David Lodge dies at 89. His work will inform our world for years to come.

January 11, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

David Lodge, British author of perhaps the greatest works of campus satire of all-time, died on Jan. 1, 2025, at age 89, surrounded by his family at his home in...

Secret World Books is a new bookstore at 1774 2nd St. in Highland Park. (John Warner)

Biblioracle: My New Year’s reading resolution is to visit more independent bookstores

January 4, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

My quest to visit these stores isn’t just about supporting small businesses, but is instead a desire to join in a community of shared values.

"Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); "Godwin" by Joseph O'Neill (Pantheon); "The Book of George" by Kate Greathead (Henry Holt and Co.).

Biblioracle: Concluding my 2024 Biblioracle Book Awards for fiction

December 28, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Among my favorite works of fiction in the past year were books by Sally Rooney, Joseph O'Neill and Kate Greathead. Did you read any of my picks?

“The Wedding People” by Alison Espach (Henry Holt); “Assassins Anonymous” by Rob Hart (G.P. Putnam’s Sons); Garth Greenwell’s book “Small Rain” (Farrar Straus and Giroux).

Biblioracle: My 2024 Biblioracle Book Awards for fiction, the first half

December 21, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

A round-up of the best fiction from 2024 that the Biblioracle has previously covered.

“Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture” by Kyle Chayka (Doubleday), "When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s" by John Ganz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and "We Loved It All: A Memory of Life" by Lydia Millet (W.W. Norton & Company).

Biblioracle: The 2024 nonfiction Biblioracle Book Awards

December 14, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The first installment of the Biblioracle Book Awards looks at nonfiction, with six standouts that will help you make sense of the world.

Author Mark Leyner at his home in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Feb. 29, 2016. (Ramsay de Give / for the baiduhai)

Biblioracle: Rediscovering Mark Leyner through ‘A Shimmering, Serrated Monster’

December 7, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

He is the author of numerous short stories and novels and perhaps best known for “My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist.”

Author Weike Wang speaks during the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards on Feb. 28, 2022, in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

Biblioracle: Weike Wang’s ‘Rental House’ is a sweet and sometimes sad portrait of a marriage

November 30, 2024 at 7:07 a.m.

Weike Wang delivers sharp, funny, sneakily emotional stories that you will read compulsively until completion.

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