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billybooknews rated An Immense World: 4 stars
An Immense World by Ed Yong
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal …
billybooknews rated I Have Some Questions for You: 4 stars
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Literary mystery
billybooknews rated Ripley under ground: 4 stars
Ripley under ground by Patricia Highsmith
It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in Ripley Under Ground (1970), he …
billybooknews rated Doppelganger: 5 stars
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …
billybooknews rated The Talented Mr. Ripley: 5 stars
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The first of the acclaimed Ripley novels, this clever psychological thriller introduces the reader to Tom Ripley and his extraordinary …
billybooknews rated The Art Thief: 2 stars
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, …
billybooknews rated Eastbound: 5 stars
billybooknews rated Some People Need Killing: 4 stars
billybooknews rated The Water Babies: 5 stars
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The story follows Tom in his land-life as a climbing boy for a chimney-sweep and in his after-life as a …
billybooknews rated Wolves of Eternity: 5 stars
billybooknews rated Extremely Online: 2 stars
Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators …
billybooknews rated Tripping on Utopia: 3 stars
billybooknews rated Sullivanians: 4 stars
Sullivanians by Alexander Stille
A history of the Sullivan Institute, a “communist psychotherapy sex cult” (p. 375) operating in Manhattan from 1957 to 1991.
billybooknews rated Circe: A Novel: 4 stars
Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe …