23 reviews 13 YES · 8 DEPENDS · 2 NO Who this is

• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Blindness José Saramago · 1995 But the book understands something important about collapse. A Disaster Managed by People Who Keep Calling It a Procedure YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 The book is overbuilt, but its central judgment is sound: people do not become worthless because institutions have learned how to use them cheaply. A Long Way Through a Very Bad System YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry · 1985 I finished the book tired, sad, and more impressed by the ordinary acts of care than by the gunfights. A Long Way to Find Out What People Owe Each Other YES
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Mad Mabel Sally Hepworth · 2025 Even so, Mad Mabel earned its emotional conclusion. A murder story about the people who stay YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson · 2022 I would recommend this to readers who can tolerate characters making choices that are understandable and still wrong. A Good Poster, a Bad Process, and the Cost of Keeping a Secret DEPENDS
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel Lawrence Osborne · 2018 My final judgment is favorable, with a clear condition. A Retirement Plan With Too Many Bodies DEPENDS
• CLASSICS Roundtable Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 The book understands that people can be intelligent in one area and foolish in another, and that good intentions do not cancel bad judgment. A Very Good Case for Paying Attention Before You Decide YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon · 2000 I finished the book admiring its ambition and its emotional intelligence, though not every detour earned its place. A Book About Escape, and the People Left to Hold the Door YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Calamity Club Kathryn Stockett · 2026 I finished it because Meg and Birdie kept pulling me back. A Good Intention Is Not a Safeguard YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese · 2023 It is also generous, vivid, funny, angry, and deeply interested in the difference between caring for people and controlling them. A Family History That Refuses to Stay Underwater YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2015 I would recommend it to readers who can tolerate emotional pressure and a lot of suffering in exchange for a clear, moving story about women’s resistance. A Story About What People Do When Safety Is No Longer an Option DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Theo of Golden Allen Levi · 2023 There is also a book that trusts its hero more than I did. A Good Man, a Beautiful Idea, and Too Many Convenient Miracles DEPENDS
• POETRY Roundtable Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein · 1974 Where the Sidewalk Ends has lasted because it respects children enough to be funny, strange, alarming, and occasionally sad in the same book. A Very Good Book for People Who Need Permission to Be Silly YES
• NONFICTION Roundtable Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 I would recommend it to readers who are willing to argue with a book while reading it, especially readers interested in work, craftsmanship, parenting, or the gap between a stated value and a lived one. A Long Argument About What We Owe the Things We Do DEPENDS
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Bits and Pieces Nichole Severn · 2021 You do not get to review someone’s adoption file because you picked up dropped paper. The Case Never Gets One Owner DEPENDS
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Unspoken Truths Liz Mistry · 2019 Every lingering problem simply eliminates itself before the police have to do any actual administrative work. Administrative Fantasy Disguised as Police Work NO
• ROMANCE Roundtable Kingdom of Thorns Katherine Macdonald · 2020 Anton, the leathery leader who once charged her jewels for fighting lessons, dies between the two graves she dug, still holding the first ruby she ever paid him. The princess kept a contingency file YES
• ROMANCE Roundtable Not Your Average Earl Eliza Lloyd · 2019 I wished it had trusted that material earlier, because it is the difference between entertainment and something that stays with you. The Governess Problem DEPENDS
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable One Death at a Time Abbi Waxman · 2025 The glamour of the Hollywood setting never disguises the fundamental tedium of a thorough investigation, which is exactly how it should be written. Investigative Protocol in the Hollywood Hills YES
• SCIENCE FICTION Roundtable Station Eternity Mur Lafferty · 2022 It is a messy, unauthorized solution to a problem that never should have happened, which is basically the definition of crisis management. When The Administrative Failures Are Intergalactic YES
• WESTERN Roundtable The Broken Bow Larry D. Sweazy · 2022 The narration tells us killing weighs on Trusty's soul in nearly identical words at least three times. I have notes. NO
• CLASSICS Roundtable The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis · 1955 The comedy keeps the terror bearable, and the terror keeps the comedy from being cheap. The Narnia Book Everyone Feels Entitled to Skip YES
• ROMANCE Roundtable Wyoming Cowboy Marine Nicole Helm · 2019 Plenty of books twice this size never locate their real conflict that cleanly. He Kept Going to the Meetings DEPENDS

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