16 reviews 8 YES · 5 DEPENDS · 2 DNF · 1 NO Who this is

• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Blindness José Saramago · 1995 Still, the book earned its length more often than it wasted it. When Nobody Is Left to Check the Count YES
• NONFICTION Roundtable Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer · 1997 Krakauer's greatest achievement is that he makes the disaster understandable without making it feel inevitable. The Mountain Does Not Sign the Delivery Note YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry · 1985 I would recommend it to someone willing to spend a long time watching a plan become a burden. A Long Drive With No Safe Destination DEPENDS
• HORROR Roundtable Swan Song Robert R. McCammon · 1987 It is also serious about the difference between surviving and rebuilding. Who Is Counting the Food? YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco · 1980 Read it if you can tolerate long arguments, repeated theological disputes, and a mystery that keeps changing its paperwork. A Library Is Still a Workplace DEPENDS
• CLASSICS Roundtable The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham · 1944 I am not ready to throw away the bank balance and become a taxi driver, but after finishing this book I was less certain that the person with the busiest schedule is necessarily the person living best. A Man Who Refused the Assigned Route YES
• NONFICTION Roundtable Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 I would recommend the book to anyone who can tolerate long philosophical detours and who has some respect for repairing, building, writing, teaching, or maintaining anything. A Good Book That Does Not Know When to Stop DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable Beard on Tap Willow Sanders · 2021 You can own a place free and clear and still feel like you are erasing the man who signed the original papers. I changed my mind when she put numbers on the bar YES
• ROMANCE Roundtable Kingdom of Thorns Katherine Macdonald · 2020 Because the central relationship actually justifies the time spent on it. The logistics fail, but the arrangement works DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable May We Feed the King Rebecca Perry · 2026 She still does not pierce a poached egg on a friend's plate, and she knows that if she does, she has lost her grip. The plate came back untouched YES
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable One Death at a Time Abbi Waxman · 2025 I mind a book that cannot let a hard subject sit still for even one page before it reaches for the next laugh. Nobody Signed for Any of This DNF
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Perfect Remains Helen Fields · 2017 Still, I preferred the investigation's harder questions about evidence and responsibility to this neat piece of vengeance. Very effective when it investigates, less convincing when it performs DEPENDS
• WESTERN Roundtable The Broken Bow Larry D. Sweazy · 2022 I stopped because I cannot read a book that expects me to fear a gang of killers who operate with the efficiency of a broken pallet jack. Assassins who defeat themselves DNF
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable The Forgotten David Baldacci · 2012 But the entire book up to that point has been about people who aren't what they seem, about institutions failing the people who trusted them. Good with the timesheet, terrible with the truck NO
• CLASSICS Roundtable The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis · 1955 The cabby answers: we both had our living to earn, and in winter you were warm while my hands froze. Mark the Pool YES
• ROMANCE Roundtable Wyoming Cowboy Marine Nicole Helm · 2019 Cam steps in front of a bullet meant for a kidnapper, simply because the woman he loves wants the man to live. Good Logistics on a Bad Mountain YES

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