Brent Sleeper rated Gilead: 5 stars
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Gilead, #1)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, Gilead is a hymn of praise and lamentation to …
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Brent Sleeper rated Where I Was From: 5 stars
Brent Sleeper rated Wicked: 5 stars
Wicked by Gregory Maguire (The Wicked Years, #1)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is an American novel published in 1995, written …
Brent Sleeper rated Bottle Grove: 4 stars
Bottle Grove by Daniel Handler
This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San …
Brent Sleeper rated Son of a Witch: 4 stars
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (The Wicked Years, #2)
The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel WickedTen years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns …
Brent Sleeper rated Red Team Blues: 4 stars
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow’s Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken …
Brent Sleeper rated The Bright Sword: 5 stars
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place at the Round Table, only to …
Brent Sleeper rated Annie Bot: 4 stars
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
A powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, …
Brent Sleeper rated The Making of the Representative for Planet 8: 5 stars
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing
Planet 8, a prosperous world with intelligent, vital inhabitants, is transformed by an Ice Age, a change that causes a …
Brent Sleeper rated The Greatest Gift: 3 stars
The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern, Marguerite Stern Robinson
A beautiful gift edition of the heartwarming story that became the Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life.
For almost seventy …
Brent Sleeper rated The Brides of Maracoor: 4 stars
The Brides of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire (Another Day, #1)
The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire, featuring Elphaba’s …
Brent Sleeper rated Slow Horses: 4 stars
Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agents is united by …
Brent Sleeper rated The Looking Glass War: 3 stars
The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
“You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous.”
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: …
Brent Sleeper rated A Murder of Quality: 3 stars
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré (George Smiley, #2)
“Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley—where was he?”
John le Carré’s second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers …
Brent Sleeper rated Call for the Dead: 4 stars
Call for the Dead by John le Carré (George Smiley, #1)
“Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards.”
George Smiley is no one’s idea of …