mckenna rated Red Seas Under Red Skies: 5 stars
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a …
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mckenna rated The Lies of Locke Lamora: 5 stars
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (A Bantam spectra book)
In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of …
mckenna rated Crime and Punishment: 5 stars
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, tr. Prestupléniye i nakazániye, IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ …
Contact by Carl Sagan
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who …
mckenna rated When breath becomes air: 5 stars
Paul Kalanithi: When breath becomes air (2016)
When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi (Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction)
At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul …
mckenna rated Steppenwolf: 4 stars
mckenna rated The Brothers Karamazov: 5 stars
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy, pronounced [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last …
mckenna rated Cat's Cradle: 5 stars
mckenna rated Fear and trembling: 4 stars
Fear and trembling by Søren Kierkegaard (Penguin Books--great ideas)
Original title: Frygt og bæven
mckenna rated "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": 5 stars
mckenna rated Siddhartha: 4 stars
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy …
Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
mckenna rated The Wise Man’s Fear: 4 stars
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger …
mckenna rated The Name of the Wind: 5 stars
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan …
mckenna rated Zorba the Greek: 5 stars
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek (Greek: Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Víos kai Politeía tou Aléxē Zorbá, Life and Times of …