22 reviews 8 DEPENDS · 11 YES · 3 NO Who this is

• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Blindness José Saramago · 1995 Anyone willing to spend a long time in an intentionally unpleasant thought experiment will find plenty here. The world does not become better just because nobody can see it DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 I finished Demon Copperhead feeling impressed, sad and slightly battered. A boy cannot carry an entire county YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson · 2022 I liked the first half most when the book stayed close to Frankie and Zeke making the thing. A Poster, a Panic and the Problem of Letting Go YES
• CLASSICS Roundtable Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 That is a less decorative lesson than the romance, and probably the one I will remember longer. The Best Argument I’ve Read About Being Wrong YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Queen Birgitta Trotzig · 1964 I finished Queen, but I would not recommend it to anyone looking for an efficient historical novel with a clear arc. A hard book about what happens when strength becomes a prison DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Set This House in Order Matt Ruff · 2003 But the ambition is matched by real attention to practical detail. Whether the House Can Hold YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon · 2000 I would recommend it to readers who can tolerate a novel that takes its time and then takes even more time. A Very Long Book About Escape, Work, and What It Costs DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese · 2023 I finished The Covenant of Water with a complicated response. A Family History That Refuses to Stay Neat DEPENDS
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco · 1980 I found it demanding, funny, grim and much more alive than its reputation as a scholarly puzzle suggests. A Library Designed to Keep You Out YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2015 It is a moving novel, but it is also a very managed one. The War Is Real. The Emotional Machinery Is Showing. YES
• SCIENCE FICTION Roundtable The Spare Man Mary Robinette Kowal · 2022 The Spare Man is a warm, funny, occasionally exhausting science-fiction mystery about people trying to retain control of their own bodies and information inside an expensive machine designed to control both. A Murder Mystery With Excellent Dogs, Bad Security, and One Very Long Honeymoon YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Theo of Golden Allen Levi · 2023 There is a good book inside this one, especially in the practical scenes where people make, repair, read, travel, work and pay attention to one another. A Kind Book That Does Not Trust You to Feel It DEPENDS
• NONFICTION Roundtable Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 I would recommend the book to people who enjoy long philosophical detours, technical detail and an unreliable narrator who gradually becomes the subject of his own argument. A good argument buried under too many of them DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable Beard on Tap Willow Sanders · 2021 That is a person who already did the work for free and is now paying for the privilege of staying. She painted a bar she did not own NO
• ROMANCE Roundtable His Secret Child Leslie North · 2015 You can dislike the person who pushed the deadline and still find that their specification was the one that would print. Replacements before sign-off YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable May We Feed the King Rebecca Perry · 2026 If you make things, scenery, layouts, anything where the detail is the point and nobody will ever know, this book will feel like being seen, and you should read it. For the one in a thousand DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable Not Your Average Earl Eliza Lloyd · 2019 It is a book that assembles a conflict, runs it for a hundred pages, and then dissolves it because everyone at a dinner party finds each other very pleasant. The Rescue Nobody Asked For NO
• ROMANCE Roundtable Some Like It Psychic Ruby West and Ella Winters · 2021 The escape works because the villains leave no guards, which Everly clocks and excuses with "pride comes before the fall", the book annotating its own contrivance. Free Breakfast, Folded Laundry, Child Trafficking NO
• WESTERN Roundtable The Broken Bow Larry D. Sweazy · 2022 I tend to trust a book that gives a stupid man one practical skill. The buffalo coat weighed what it needed to YES
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable The Forgotten David Baldacci · 2012 I am recommending this book because it respects the reader's time and delivers exactly the product it promises. A satisfying preflight check on a corrupt system YES
• HORROR Roundtable The Gospel of Z Stephen Graham Jones · 2014 I still couldn't tell you the exact mechanics of what the mark was supposed to prove, to whom, or why it made Jory sacred to one side and expendable to the other. I still don't know what was on Jory's back DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Value of Rain Brandon Shire · 2011 It is a desperate attempt to prove that something falling from the sky has measurable worth, and therefore, by extension, so do they. Folding Paper to Measure the Damage YES

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