All Book Reviews

A few quick notes:

• This list is updated each week.

• The categories aren’t perfect. There’s inevitably a lot of crossover and it’s not ideal that some authors are found in multiple places. Just a heads up.

• All links go to the Read More Books book review. If you then decide to purchase the book on Amazon, I receive an infinitesimally small commission.

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Fiction

Classics

• Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• My Antonia by Willa Cather

• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

• The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley

• Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

• The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London

• Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery

• King Lear by Shakespeare

• The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Historical Fiction

• City of Thieves by David Benioff

• March by Geraldine Brooks

• Marley by Jon Clinch

• The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett

• Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

• Varina by Charles Frazier

• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

• A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan

• Love and War by John Jakes

• North and South by John Jakes

• The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

• The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead

• The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

• The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington by Charles Rosenberg

• Black Iron Mercy by Eric Schlehein

• Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva

• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

• A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Contemporary / General Fiction

• Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman

• Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman

• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

• Twenty-One Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks

• Trust by Hernan Diaz

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

• The Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

• The Hazards of Good Fortune by Seth Greenland

• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

• Plainsong by Kent Haruf

• Affections by Rodrigo Hasbun

• Book Lovers by Emily Henry

• Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

• The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger

• The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

• The Adults by Caroline Hulse

• The Bear by Andrew Krivak

• The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon

• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

• Gettysburg by Kevin Morris

• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

• There There by Tommy Orange

• We Are Watching Eliza Bright by A. E. Osworth

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• Sourdough by Robin Sloan

• Happy For You by Claire Stanford

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Mystery / Thriller

• Origin by Dan Brown

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

• Agatha Christie’s novels

• More Agatha Christie

• Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea

• Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

• Body Broker by Daniel Ford

• The Future Is Yours by Dan Frey

• Dragonfire by Garrett Graff

• Celine by Peter Heller

• The River by Peter Heller

• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

• Instinct by Jason Hough

• Star of the North by D. B. John

• Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

• The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

• Iron Lake (Cork O’Connor #1) by William Kent Krueger

• Boundary Waters (Cork O’Connor #2) by William Kent Krueger

• Purgatory Ridge (Cork O’Connor #3) by William Kent Krueger

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

• Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller

• Still Life (Gamache #1) by Louise Penny

• A Fatal Grace (Gamache #2) by Louise Penny

• The Cruelest Month (Gamache #3) by Louise Penny

• A Rule Against Murder (Gamache #4) by Louis Penny

• The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk

• Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

• The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

• Murder in the White House by Margaret Truman

• One by One by Ruth Ware

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror

• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Devolution by Max Brooks

• Kindred by Octavia Butler

• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

• The Passage by Justin Cronin

• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

• Recursion by Blake Crouch

• Upgrade by Blake Crouch

• The Violence by Delilah Dawson

• The Every by Dave Eggers

• The Parade by Dave Eggers

• The Measure by Nikki Erlick

• A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

• Replay by Ken Grimwood

• How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

• The Humans by Matt Haig

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

• The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

• Carrie by Stephen King

• Elevation by Stephen King

• Firestarter by Stephen King

• Misery by Stephen King

• Night Shift by Stephen King

• Rage by Stephen King

• Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

• The Dead Zone by Stephen King

• The Long Walk by Stephen King

• The Shining by Stephen King

• The Stand by Stephen King

• Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune

• Cold Storage by David Koepp

• Babel by R. F. Kuang

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

• Jade City by Fonda Lee

• Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis

• The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

• The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry

• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

• The Extinction Trials by A.G. Riddle

• Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

• The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

• The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier

• A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

• Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Stories

• Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce

• “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell

• In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

• Poe’s Complete Works by Edgar Allan Poe

• “The Gold-Bug” by Edgar Allan Poe

• Hits & Misses by Simon Rich

• “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy

Western

• The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey

• Little Big Man by Thomas Berger

• El Paso by Winston Groom

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen

• News of the World by Paulette Jiles

• Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

• Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

• Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry

• Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead

• Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams

Non-Fiction

Biography

• Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd

• Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird

• Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate

• The Master by Christopher Clarey

• Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian

• Frederick Douglass by David Blight

• J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

• Hamilton by Ron Chernow

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone

• Ted Kennedy: A Life by John Farrell

• Catching the Wind & Against the Wind by Neal Gabler

• Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon

• Manson by Jeff Guinn

• The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn

• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

• The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

• The Last Lion: Visions of Glory by William Manchester

• Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie

• Kamala’s Way by Dan Morain

• Hemingway at Eighteen by Steve Paul

• Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks edited by Anna von Planta

• Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly

• Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts

• Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles Shields

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

• The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf

Presidential Biography / History

• The President Is a Sick Man by Matthew Algeo

• His Very Best by Jonathan Alter

• The Accidental President by A. J. Baime

• Zachary Taylor by K. Jack Bauer

• In Pursuit of Jefferson by Derek Baxter

• All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

• Polk by Walter Borneman

• Reagan: The Life by H. W. Brands

• Benjamin Harrison by Charles Calhoun

• The Path to Power (Lyndon Johnson #1) by Robert Caro

• Means of Ascent (Lyndon Johnson #2) by Robert Caro

• Master of the Senate (Lyndon Johnson #3) by Robert Caro

• Grant by Ron Chernow

• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

• Old Tippecanoe by Freeman Cleaves

• The Black President by Claude Clegg

• Martin Van Buren by Donald Cole

• An Unfinished Life by Robert Dallek

• Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Dallek

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

• Richard Nixon by John Farrell

• Author In Chief by Craig Fehrman

• Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

• No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin

• The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin

• The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed

• Lady First: Sarah Polk by Amy Greenberg

• The Unexpected President by Scott Greenberger

• Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish

• President without a Party by Christopher Leahy

• Jefferson: The Virginian by Dumas Malone

• Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss

• John Adams by David McCullough

• Destiny & Power: The American Odyssey of George HW Bush by Jon Meacham

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

• President McKinley by Robert Merry

• Joe Biden by Evan Osnos

• Millard Fillmore by Robert Rayback

• The Life of Andrew Jackson by Robert Remini

• The Crowded Hour: Roosevelt and the Rough Riders by Clay Risen

• The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt

• When the Center Held by Donald Rumsfeld

• Bush by Jean Edward Smith

• Worst. President. Ever. by Robert Strauss

• The First President Johnson by Lately Thomas

• The First Kennedys by Neal Thompson

• John Quincy Adams by James Traub

• Rutherford Hayes by Hans Trefousse

• The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger

• Incomparable Grace by Mark Updegrove

• Franklin Piece by Peter Wallner

• A. Lincoln by Ronald White

• Hoover by Kenneth Whyte

Culture (Books, Sports, Food/Drink, etc.)

• Great Short Books by Kenneth Davis

• The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

• Read Until You Understand by Farah Jasmine Griffin

• The Comic Book Story of Baseball by Alex Irvine

• The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs

• The Reading Life by C. S. Lewis

• Gridiron Genius by Michael Lombardi

• Cultish by Amanda Montell

• 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by James Mustich

• Infinite Baseball by Alva Noe

• Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell

• Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer by Maureen Ogle

• Fans by Larry Olmsted

• Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick

• Caffeine by Michael Pollan

• ADHD Nation by Alan Schwarz

• Switched On Pop by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding

• Pappyland by Wright Thompson

• String Theory by David Foster Wallace

• Strokes of Genius by L. Jon Wertheim

History

• Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden by Peter Bergen

• The King Years by Taylor Branch

• The General vs. the President by H. W. Brands

• The Zealot and the Emancipator by H. W. Brands

• Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown

• Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

• The Vortex by Scott Carney

• Furious Hours by Casey Cep

• The War Before the War by Andrew Delbanco

• The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikotter

• The Last Stand of Fox Company by Tom Clavin and Bob Drury

• The Fair Chase: The Epic Story of Hunting in America by Philip Dray

• The Volunteer: The Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather

• The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris

• The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett Graff

• Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne

• Hymns of the Republic by S. C. Gwynne

• Midnight at Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

• How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

• A Brief History of Diaries by Alexandra Johnson

• Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

• The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us by Lucy Jones

• The Red and the Blue by Steve Kornacki

• Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 by Robert Kurson

• In the Waves by Rachel Lance

• To the Edges of the Earth: The Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward Larson

• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

• A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War by Joseph Loconte

• Code Name Lise by Larry Loftis

• Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson

• Chaos by Tom O’Neill

• Icebound by Andrea Pitzer

• The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space by Craig Ryan

• On Desperate Ground: The Marines at Chosin Reservoir by Hampton Sides

• The Exotic by Hampton Sides

• Pale Rider by Laura Spinney

• Countdown 1945 by Chris Wallace

• Rabid by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• April 1865 by Jay Winik

• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

• The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

• Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckhoff

Memoir

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel

• Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon

• Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

• Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr

• A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans

• Level Zero Heroes by Michael Golembesky

• Personal History by Katherine Graham

• Touching the Dragon by Jimmy Hatch

• How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

• West With the Night by Beryl Markham

• README.txt by Chelsea Manning

• Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry

• Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

• 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

• Becoming by Michelle Obama

• The Man I Never Met by Adam Schefter

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Rough Draft by Katy Tur

• Unbelievable by Katy Tur

• Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

• Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner

• Educated by Tara Westover

Nature / Outdoors / Travel

• Fire in Paradise by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano

• The Lost City of Z by David Grann

• The Man Who Caught the Storm by Brantley Hargrove

• Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris

• To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins

• Endurance by Alfred Lansing

• Underland by Robert Macfarlane

• Alone on the Ice by David Roberts

• Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton

• Forever on the Mountain by James Tabor

• Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North by Adam Weymouth

Philosophy / Self-Improvement / Business / Management

• How to Be a Happier Parent by KJ Dell’Antonia

• Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey

• Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

• Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

• The Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo

• Meltdown by Chris Clearfield

• To Light Their Way by Kayla Craig

• I Didn’t Do the Thing Today by Madeleine Dore

• The Hard Break by Aaron Edelheit

• Peak by Anders Ericsson

• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Sidetracked by Francesca Gino

• Mastery by Robert Greene

• Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

• Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

• Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee

• Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

• Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine

• Work Songs by Matt Johnson

• Farsighted by Steven Johnson

• Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard

• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

• The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova

• The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler

• Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection by Gregg Krech

• The Addiction Inoculation by Jess Lahey

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

• Mastery by George Leonard

• The Power of Ethics by Susan Liautaud

• Making Today Matter by Chris Lowney

• The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie

• On Caring by Milton Mayeroff

• Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

• How to Be Perfect by Mike Schur

• Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

• On the Road With St. Augustine by James K. A. Smith

• My Morning Routine by Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander

• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

• The Practice of Groundedness by Brad Stulberg

• Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam

• Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam

• The Scandal of Holiness by Jessica Hooten Wilson

Politics / Society / Current Events

• Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

• In My Father’s House by Fox Butterfield

• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

• The Contrarian by Max Chafkin

• Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

• Bunker by Bradley Garrett

• Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg

• Happy at Any Cost by Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre

• Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday

• A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac

• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

• Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

• Missoula by Jon Krakauer

• The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

• Dopesick by Beth Macy

• Choosing Donald Trump by Stephen Mansfield

• Dark Money by Jane Mayer

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

• Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry

• Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen

• Out of Office by Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel

• The Founders by Jimmy Soni

• The Everything Store by Brad Stone

• The Tiger by John Vaillant

• How Civil Wars Start by Barbara Walter

• Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman

• The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright

Science

• The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black

• Aroused: The History of Hormones by Randi Epstein

• Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

• Why We Act by Catherine Sanderson

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

• Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson

• Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf

Book Lists

• Books That Have Stuck With Me 5 Years Later

• My 5 Favorite Mountaineering/Hiking Books

• A Few Favorite Scary Reads

• Ten Books I’m Thankful For

• 6 Books That’ll Put You in the Christmas Spirit

• My Favorite Reads of 2018

• A Theodore Roosevelt Reading List

• Short But Potent Books

• The Most Memorable Individual Chapters

• My Favorite Mystery/Thriller Authors

• A Patriotic Reading List

• An Airplane Reading List

• A Holocaust Reading List

• A Stoic Reading List

• Classics of Non-Fiction

• A Slave Narrative Reading List

• A PNW Reading List

• A Silicon Valley Reading List

• A Football Reading List

• A Midwestern Reading List

• A Road Trip Reading List

• A Time Travel Reading List

• A Prison Reading List

• Novels Inspired by Shakespeare