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billybooknews rated Our Moon: 3 stars

Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily …
billybooknews rated An Apprenticeship, or The Book Of Pleasures: 5 stars

An Apprenticeship, or The Book Of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Sheila Heti
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH with a …
billybooknews rated Furious Hours: 4 stars
billybooknews rated Cultish: 4 stars

Cultish by Amanda Montell
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and …
billybooknews rated Bee Sting: 5 stars

Bee Sting by Paul Murray
An unhappy Irish family plumbs the depths of their unhappiness, each in their own way.
billybooknews rated Gator Country: 4 stars
billybooknews rated Monsters: 5 stars

Monsters by Claire Dederer
In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with …
billybooknews rated Violeta: 4 stars

Violeta by Isabel Allende, Isabel Allende
La historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos históricos más relevantes del siglo XX. Desde 1920 -con la …
billybooknews rated Invisible cities: 4 stars

Invisible cities by Italo Calvino (Harvest/HBJ book)
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but …
billybooknews rated Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: 4 stars

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and …
billybooknews rated Fraud: A Novel: 5 stars
billybooknews rated Stay True: 4 stars
billybooknews rated Kairos: 5 stars

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann
Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR …
billybooknews rated Lincoln in the Bardo: 4 stars

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …