robertpjones's
2024
Reading Wrap-Up

Books by new authors

Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Several Short Sentences About Writing

Verlyn Klinkenborg

224 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0robertpjones's review
nonfiction reference informative reflective slow-paced
The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning by Ellen Ann Fentress

The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning

Ellen Ann Fentress

194 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0robertpjones's review
nonfiction history challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced
Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist by Ann Waldron

Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist

Ann Waldron

384 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

3.0robertpjones's review
nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
1776 by David McCullough

1776

David McCullough

386 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

3.0robertpjones's review
nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer

The Best American Short Stories 2022

The Best American Short Stories #2022

Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer

332 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

4.0robertpjones's review
fiction short stories funny reflective medium-paced
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

森崎書店の日々(Days at the Morisaki Bookshop) #1

Satoshi Yagisawa

160 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional lighthearted reflective fast-paced
The Quiet Game by Greg Iles

The Quiet Game

Penn Cage #1

Greg Iles

580 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

3.0robertpjones's review
fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism by Beau Underwood, Brian Kaylor

Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism

Beau Underwood, Brian Kaylor

264 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0robertpjones's review
nonfiction politics religion medium-paced
The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

The Last Bookshop in London

Madeline Martin

314 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0robertpjones's review
fiction historical romance emotional fast-paced
God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights by Charles Marsh
God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
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Charles Marsh

God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights

Charles Marsh

288 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

4.0robertpjones's review
nonfiction history religion emotional informative medium-paced