Reader Stories

I Heard Her Call My Name Book Review: The Courage of Late Arrivals

A brilliant, late-life transition story that will make you question what you hide from yourself.

If He Had Been With Me Book Review: The Cost of Silence

You know the ending from page one. But you keep reading—because what breaks you isn't his death. It's everything they never said.

Reagan: His Life and Legend Book Review: The Man Who Couldn’t Be Pinned Down

Can a president be both transformative and deeply flawed? Max Boot dares to look. 79 chars.

The Ascended Book Review: A Bond That Outshines the Gods

In this 800-page romantasy, the romance takes a backseat to the bond between twins who would burn the world together.

Never Lie Book Review: How Freida McFadden Makes You Betray Yourself

A pregnant woman, a snowbound manor, cassette tapes from a vanished psychiatrist. You think you're solving a crime—but you're just being led to believe a story you never questioned.

The Invention of Prehistory Review: Who Gets to Tell the First Story?

What if everything we think we know about human origins is fiction written by the powerful?

Grief Is for People: Why We Search for Lost Things We Can’t Get Back

A 191-page book that makes grief feel weird, real, and oddly hilarious.

Madness Book Review: The Weapon of Diagnosis

This book will make you question who gets labeled crazy and why. A must-read.

Meet the Neighbors Review: Animals Are Neighbors, Not Objects

This book made me question everything I thought I knew about the minds of animals.