View Reading GUide

* * * * *

Be the first to rate this book!

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

by Norman Ohler

Published: 2016-11-22

Hardcover: 368 pages

1 member reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow 'Blitzed is making me rethink everything I've ever seen and read about WWII... terrific!' Douglas Coupland 'A huge contribution... remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4 'Extremely interesting...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

by Ellen Ullman

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginabl...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Adventurous,
Interesting,
Informative

49 club reviews

Review This book

One Thousand White Women (20th Anniversary Edition): The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel

by Jim Fergus

Published: 2017-08-01

Paperback: 496 pages

210 members reading this now
307 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 21 of 49 members

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister

by Anna Akana

Published: 2017-06-13

Paperback: 208 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Life Is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist

by Bruce Weber

Published: 2015-03-17

Paperback: 352 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Beren and Lúthien

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Published: 2017-06-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

2 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the followin...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Gone Bitch: A Parody of Gone Girl

by Steve Lookner

Published: 2014-09-19

Paperback: 160 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Meet Nick. He's kind of dumb. Meet his wife, Amy. She's kind of a bitch. One day Amy goes missing. What happened? Find out...in GONE BITCH!GONE BITCH is the hilarious new parody of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl which will have you on the edge of your seat and rolling on the floor. All your f...

View Reading GUide

* * Unconvincing,
Slow,
Adventurous

Be the first to rate this book!

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore)

by Hadley Freeman

Published: 2016-06-14

Paperback: 352 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever—featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics.For Hadley Freeman, movies ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Years

by Annie Ernaux

Published: 2017-11-07

Paperback: 240 pages

0 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and is considered in French Studies departments in the US as a contemporary classic.The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told ...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Addictive,
Dramatic,
Scary

3 club reviews

Review This book

Lie to Me: A Fast-Paced Psychological Thriller

by J.T. Ellison

Published: 2017-09-05

Paperback: 416 pages

4 members reading this now
7 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 3 of 3 members

Domestic noir at its best. Readers will devour this stunning page-turner about the disintegration of a marriage as grief, jealousy, betrayal and murder destroy the facade of the perfect literary couple. New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison takes her exceptional writing to a new l...