Reviews are from Amazon. Spotlight Pick: Elevation Stephen King The first thing to note about Stephen King’s Elevation is that it is a short book—small and short. This being an online store, it is useful to point out that it will not land on your doorstep with the thud of a typical Stephen King novel. The second…
Best Books Index
Amazon’s Best Books of 2018 (So Far) #10-20
Here are #10-20 of Amazon’s picks that have not yet made it onto BookMovement book clubs’ radar–For the Amazon picks #1-9 that are also Top Club Picks of 2018, subscribe to our newsletter–see the subscribe box above. 10. The Feather Thief The title of The Feather Thief smartly echoes Susan Orleans’ The Orchid Thief, and The Feather…
This Week’s People Picks
Book of the Week: My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper This collection of personal essays by the star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is just as kooky and charming as that character and other adorable ditzes she played in Bridesmaids and The Office. Yet in recounting scenes from her life–the backyard squirrel she once tried to…
This Week’s People Picks
A wild child’s coming of age, a dangerous romance and a riveting dystopian thriller.–People Magazine Book of the Week: Where the Crawdads Sing Steeped in the rhythms and shadows of the coastal marshes of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, this fierce and hauntingly beautiful novel centers on Kya Clark, a little girl abandoned by her…
Entertainment Weekly’s Picks for the Best of Summer
..Specifically, the best debut authors you need to know about. (Reviews from Entertainment Weekly) The Incendiaries – R.O. Kwon The Incendiaries follows Will and Phoebe, a couple at an exclusive East Coast college, as they simultaneously fall in love and become entangled in an extremist group hell-bent on violently disrupting abortion clinics. It’s full of lofty…