Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
Fall Reading, 2017FictionCasey's ReviewsSimon&SchusterWhen teenager Lucinda Hayes is found murdered in her suburban town, all eyes shift to her quiet and decidedly different neighbor, Cameron...
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Fiction from our 2017 Winter NewsletterFictionCasey's ReviewsPenguinIt is hard to imagine Ng outdoing herself after the success of her first novel, Everything I Never Told You, but she’s up to the task...
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Fiction from our 2017 Winter NewsletterFictionCasey's ReviewsPenguinRoddy Doyle is best known for the engaging dialogue that permeates the pages of his perfect Irish novels. Smile, his latest novel, is...
View ArticleAnother Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
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View ArticleEvicted by Matthew Desmond
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View ArticleSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Fall Reading, 2017FictionCasey's ReviewsSimon&SchusterIn a small town along the Mississippi coast, one American family struggles with the ebbs and flows of a roller-coaster life grappling with...
View ArticleGirl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
Fall Reading, 2017FictionCasey's ReviewsSimon&SchusterWhen teenager Lucinda Hayes is found murdered in her suburban town, all eyes shift to her quiet and decidedly different neighbor, Cameron...
View ArticleLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Fiction from our 2017 Winter NewsletterFictionCasey's ReviewsPenguinIt is hard to imagine Ng outdoing herself after the success of her first novel, Everything I Never Told You, but she’s up to the task...
View ArticleSmile by Roddy Doyle
Fiction from our 2017 Winter NewsletterFictionCasey's ReviewsPenguinRoddy Doyle is best known for the engaging dialogue that permeates the pages of his perfect Irish novels. Smile, his latest novel, is...
View ArticleThe House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Spring Reading, 2018FictionCasey's ReviewsHachetteI have to admit that I have a weakness for family epics. There is something so powerful about connecting to characters’ lives in the place that is most...
View ArticleThe Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins
Paperback Fiction from our 2018 Summer Newsletter.FictionCasey's ReviewsSimon&SchusterI didn’t want to lead this review with the fact that the author of this book is serving a life sentence for...
View ArticleManhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Paperback Fiction from our 2018 Summer Newsletter.FictionCasey's ReviewsSimon&SchusterThere is nothing quite so satisfying as a beautifully written, impeccably researched historical novel,...
View ArticleLess by Andrew Sean Greer
Paperback Fiction from our 2018 Summer Newsletter.FictionCasey's ReviewsHachetteArthur Less is an aging, near-famous author who tries to escape the fact that his boyfriend is getting married by...
View ArticleHousegirl by Michael Donkor
Fall Reading, 2018FictionCasey's ReviewsMacMillanBelinda is a housegirl in Ghana, facing life without her mother and as a steward for a younger housegirl-in-training placed under her care. When her...
View ArticleHis Favorites by Kate Walbert
Fall Reading, 2018FictionCasey's ReviewsSimon&SchusterSometimes the most satisfying reads are the ones that can pack a punch in short form. Kate Walbert’s new novel, His Favorites, is a telling...
View ArticleVirgil Wander by Leif Enger
New & Recommended Fiction from our 2018 Winter NewsletterFictionCasey's ReviewsThere are very few books these days whose sole purpose is to remind you of the delight to be found in small-town...
View ArticleUnsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
New & Recommended Fiction from our 2018 Winter NewsletterFictionCasey's ReviewsHarper CollinsA new Barbara Kingsolver novel is always a gift but this time her fictional journey feels even more...
View ArticleSea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
History & Politics from our 2018 Winter NewsletterYoung ReaderCasey's ReviewsPenguinHosseini, beloved author of the The Kite Runner, has helped lead the movement to bring awareness about refugees...
View ArticleLeadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin
History & Politics from our 2018 Winter NewsletterHistory, Biography, and PoliticsCasey's ReviewsSimon&SchusterWhen I think of who we need to make sense of the challenges facing our democracy,...
View ArticleInheritance by Dani Shapiro
Staff Nonfiction FavoritesBiography & MemoirCasey's ReviewsRandomHouseShapiro tells the story of her surprise ancestry test that revealed that her father is not her biological father and therefore...
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