All Book Reviews
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Reviews of 'Chalice' and 'House of Many Ways'
For readers ages 8-12, two fantasy tales with charm to spare.
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Masterpiece
A lively mystery about great art, a boy, and his unlikely helper.
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'Den of Thieves' - classic review from the Monitor archives
Wall Street greed laid bare.
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Something Wicked
Alan Gratz’s fresh spin on Shakespeare makes superb reading for older teens.
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
Photosynthesis may be the energy answer we seek.
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A Great Idea at the Time
How the Great Books turned an educational movement into a door-to-door sales pitch.
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Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table
Writers recall their most memorable meals.
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Reviews of "I See You Everywhere" and "The Flying Troutmans"
Two new novels center on the complex, competitive love between sisters.
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell examines patterns in the lives of extraordinary achievers.
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The Audacity of Hope – from the Monitor archives
Barack Obama gives readers a blueprint of his view that America requires "a different kind of politics."
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Sashenka
The story of a fictional family followed through several generations of turbulent Russian history.
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'Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt'
Who was Cleopatra? British historian Joyce Tyldesley tries to tell us.
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'Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt'
H.W. Brands’s new biography on FDR is detailed, insightful, and reads like a novel.
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Serena
Lady Macbeth has nothing on Serena, the ruthless protagonist of this Depression-era story set in the Smoky Mountains.
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The Journal of Hélène Berr
A newly published diary reveals a French counterpart to Amsterdam’s Anne Frank.
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Brooklyn Bridge
In 1903, a teddy bear heir straddles the worlds of the privileged and the forgotten.
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Beloved – from the Monitor archives
Morrison's novel of slavery, memory, and human kindness.
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The Partnership
The history of Goldman Sachs and its rise from Manhattan basement to ‘global juggernaut.’
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John Lennon: The Life
Philip Norman's new bio of John Lennon is a winner.
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Breakfast at Sally's
A man once wealthy learns to live among the homeless.
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