All reviews
Every book we've catalogued so far, newest first. Filter by genre from the genres page.
The Kite Runner
A story about guilt and repair set against Afghanistan's recent history, told through one boyhood friendship that never lets go.
Dune
Ecology, empire, and prophecy collide on a desert planet in the novel that reset the ceiling for what science fiction could hold.
The Name of the Wind
A gifted, self-mythologizing narrator recounts his own legend — and quietly asks you not to trust a word of it.
The Silent Patient
A painter stops speaking the day she shoots her husband. Six years later, a psychotherapist becomes obsessed with making her talk.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A sweeping account of how shared fictions — money, nations, religions — let a mid-sized primate take over the planet.
Pride and Prejudice
Two hundred years on, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy's slow, sharp-tongued courtship still holds up as one of fiction's best.
The Haunting of Hill House
Four strangers spend the summer in a house that was, as the opening line warns, never sane — and the house wins.
All the Light We Cannot See
A blind French girl and a German radio prodigy have their paths bent toward each other by the machinery of the Second World War.
The Hunger Games
A televised fight to the death becomes the vehicle for one of YA fiction's sharpest critiques of spectacle and state power.
1984
Winston Smith's small, doomed rebellion against a totalitarian state remains the reference point every dystopia gets measured against.
Educated
Raised off the grid by survivalist parents with no birth certificate and no schooling, Westover talks her way into a Cambridge PhD.
Atomic Habits
A practical framework for behavior change built on the idea that identity, not willpower, is what makes habits stick.
Milk and Honey
A collection of short, illustrated poems moving through hurting, loving, breaking, and healing — the book that brought Instagram-era poetry to bestseller lists.
Watchmen
A murder investigation among retired superheroes becomes a structural masterclass in what the comics medium can do that prose can't.
Where the Crawdads Sing
A girl abandoned in the North Carolina marsh raises herself in isolation, then becomes the prime suspect in a murder years later.
