Brief Book Reviews

No Straight Road Takes You There

by Rebecca Solnit (2025)

Jul 5 •

Roger Patterson

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

by Amanda Bellows (2024).

Jun 12 •

Roger Patterson

by Samantha Harvey (2023)

Jun 6 •

Roger Patterson

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

by Sonia Purnell (2019)

May 31 •

Roger Patterson

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding (1954).

May 28 •

Roger Patterson

Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By John Green (2025).

May 23 •

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by Virginia Woolf (1925).

May 21 •

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by Fredrik Backman (2025).

May 16 •

Roger Patterson

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (2024).

May 9 •

Roger Patterson

Who is Government: The Untold Story of Public Service

By Michael Lewis, ed. (2025)

May 6 •

Roger Patterson

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By Timothy Snyder (2017; revised 2024).

May 1 •

Roger Patterson

The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir

By Sarah Kendzior (2025).

Apr 29 •

Roger Patterson

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