Top ten reads of the year As 2016 draws to a close, it’s time to take a look back at some of the best books that have appeared here at ...

Harsh wilderness, tame plot Conjuror’s House, published in 1903, is a novel by Stewart Edward White, a popular American author of adve...

A fascinating tale rather tepidly told Having recently read Ron Chernow’s excellent biography Washington: A Life , the idea of a book ...

Wisconsin’s ambassador to the galaxy Clifford D. Simak’s novel Way Station, published in 1963, won the Hugo Award for that year’s best...

Little bang in this Buck Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel Prize for her early novels about China (most notably The Good Earth ), which explo...

Love, money, and revenge Cousin Bette, published in 1846, is one of Honoré de Balzac’s lengthiest and most substantial works. In addit...

Another chapter, another funeral Mary Shelley’s novel The Last Man was originally published in 1826. As the title indicates, it is a po...