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Patrick Radden Keefe on Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”

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New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox.In 1972, on “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson asked Truman Capote about capital punishment. Capote had…

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Lee Child’s Jack Reacher Series Complete Novel List

By Jeff on January 5, 2026

I have been creating lists for my Dad of the novels by his favorite authors so he can make sure he has read all of them. You can see my John Grisham complete list, John Sandford lists, and Michael Connelly complete list. This post is a complete list of all the Jack Reacher novels by […]

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Michael Connelly Novels Complete List

By Jeff on January 5, 2026

I am continuing to compile complete lists of the books of some of my Dad’s favorite authors for him. You can see my John Grisham complete adult novels list and all my John Sandford lists. In this post, I am going to list all the novels by Michael Connelly. The Black Echo (1992) — Featuring: […]

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John Sandford’s Other Novels

By Jeff on January 5, 2026

I created complete lists of John Sandford’s Prey series, Kidd series, and Virgil Flowers series for my Dad. Here is a final list of Sandford’s other novels. First, a complete list of the Singular Menace series, which was written with Michelle Cook: Uncaged (2014) Outrage (2015) Rampage (2016) A complete list of John Sandford’s Letty […]

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John Sandford’s Virgil Flowers Complete List

By Jeff on January 5, 2026

Here is a complete list of all John Sandford’s Virgil Flowers series books. I compiled this for my Dad, who wants to make sure he has read all of Sandford’s work. You can see the other John Sandford lists I made for him here. Dark of the Moon (2007) Heat Lightning (2008) Rough Country (2009) […]

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John Sandford’s Kidd Series Complete List

By Jeff on January 5, 2026

This post includes another list, this one of the books in John Sandford’s Kidd Series, that I created to provide for my Dad as he ensures that he has read all the books of a few of his favorite popular authors. You can see the other John Sandford lists here. The Fool’s Run (1989) The […]

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John Sandford’s Prey Series Complete List

By Jeff on January 5, 2026

Much like with John Grisham, my Dad is trying to make sure he has read all of John Sandford’s books. So, I am putting together a series of lists for him. They will all be tagged with John Sandford if you are looking for them. Rules of Prey (1989) Shadow Prey (1990) Eyes of Prey […]

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John Grisham Adult Novels Complete List

By Jeff on January 5, 2026

My Dad reads a few popular authors, including John Grisham. He wanted to make sure that he has read all Grisham’s adult novels, but could not find a definitive list. So, I put together – using AI and Wikipedia – a comprehensive list in chronological order of all these books. At the end of the […]

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What happens when you let nature back into the farm » Yale Climate Connections

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In “Regenerating Earth,” Kelsey Timmerman journeys from cornfields to the Amazon to meet with farmers who are healing their land.

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Looks like a book. Reads, to some, like a threat. — Harvard Gazette

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Houghton exhibit explores forbidden history.

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To the Bright Edge of the World

By Jeff on October 1, 2025

In To the Bright Edge of the World, Eowyn Ivey has written a novel that respects both history and mystery, refusing to reduce either to the other. The book complicates rather than simplifies, unsettling the boundaries between animal and human, past and present, fact and story.

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Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership!

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Over the course of summer 2023—giving myself a hard deadline of Labor Day—I set out to read my way through Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series of nautical adventure novels, beginning with Maste…

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He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.

After Dan Pelzer died this month at 92, his children uploaded the handwritten reading list to what-dan-read.com, hoping to inspire readers everywhere.

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Is This Mysterious Swedish Commune an Eden or a Nightmare?

THE COLONY, by Annika Norlin; translated by Alice E. Olsson Imagine you are an adult orphan, a rootless Hungarian man raised in Sweden, whose greatest emotional connection is with a charismatic criminal.

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Before the internet, how the LA Public Library helped readers pick their next novel

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Before the internet made book reviews widely accessible, where would curious minds go to find information about a new novel's subject matter or a plot? If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you could reference the Los Angeles Public Library's index of fiction book review cards.

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A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending

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Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star pressed charges.

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First He Spoke for the Trees; Now He Speaks for the Sea

The ecological novel has become a staple of contemporary fiction, and rightly so. When people aren’t really listening to the drumbeat of scientists, it’s essential that our best authors take up their sticks as well. Heck, bang a cymbal.

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Contraband Marginalia

I promised to keep track of my pen, lest it become a tattoo kit. As a treat to end security training, the sergeant showed me the Wall of Fame.

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Deaccessioning the Delights of Robert Gottlieb

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The Turtle Bay town house where the editor Robert Gottlieb spent much of his life backs onto a communal garden, shared by the entire block. “Sondheim lived on the end,” Gottlieb’s daughter, the filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb, said recently, pointing out buildings. “That was Bob Dylan’s. E.

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Tabula Rasa

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This is the fourth article in the “Tabula Rasa” series. Read Volumes One, Two, and Three. In a cogent sense, I have spent, at this writing, about eighty-eight years preparing for Wordle. I work with words, I am paid by the word, I majored in English, and today I major in Wordle.