Rating 4.0 – 5.0
Books rated 4.0 and higher
(sorted by title)
Reading World Tour
Challenge:
Read a book from every country
Original Fiction
“Fairy Tales”
by E.F. Sunland
Review: Washington Black
Washington Black was short-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. From its nomination to the glowing praise around the Internet, most people liked this book more than I did. Though the first half of the book is well-written, the plot’s over-reliance on coincidence strains…
Review: Cherry
I read Nico Walker’s Cherry in my quest to read a greater range of voices. I heard about it via Ron Charles’ review in the Washington Post (found here). Though Cherry‘s title page classifies the book as fiction, the life of its unnamed narrator closely follows the trajectory…
Review: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach’s Stiff offers unique and comforting insight into death’s aftereffects. She examines cadavers and related research via interviews, bizarre trivia, and humor.