Ah, summer. I believe it is finally here (I have my doubts because I saw snow fly a couple of weeks ago), and so I thought I'd put together a list of books I'd be reading this summer if I hadn't already read them. Trust me, each of these books...

For week 23 of 52 books in 52 weeks I read The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton, a bestseller that was originally released in 2009, and made it back onto the list as part of a successful e-book price drop (more about that below).

The...

This week's read for 52 books in 52 weeks was a bit of a departure for me, genre-wise, Benjamin Percy's Red Moon.

The book is a re-imagination of the werewolf myth, where werewolves -- called lycans here -- live among us but are subject to scrutiny, controls and...

Twenty weeks into my 52 books in 52 weeks project and I admit to a little reading fatigue. I learned last year that writing on a deadline is a different experience, and reading on a deadline certainly is too. That's why I was happy that the week 20...

Week 19 (!) of my 52 books in 52 weeks project, and this week's read was Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, which was sitting atop the trade paperback bestseller list.

This book has been on my radar to read for a while -- it's one of...

It may seem like a bizarre question to ask, but several recent events have me thinking about it.

It first came to mind when I was reading and reviewing Jon Harrison's excellent debut, The Banks of Certain Rivers for my 52 books in 52...

As those of you who have been reading along with me since the beginning know, part of the reason I started this project was to get out from under the literary rock I was living beneath. And by that I mean: when I saw names like...

This week's read for my 52 books in 52 weeks project is Orphan Train, a gem from Christina Baker Kline that has hit the bestseller lists in its trade paperback release.

Orphan Train contains two interwoven story lines. The first...

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine mentioned that he had seen a "perfect" movie. I asked him what he meant, and he said that, for him, a perfect movie was one that couldn't have been any better than it was. This didn't mean it was the best...

For week 15 already of my 52 books in 52 weeks project I read Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler.

The novel is an historical fiction account of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, and their life together. Zelda and Fitzgerald...

This week's read for 52 books in 52 weeks was Harlan Coben's Six Years.

As I mentioned in my last column, I had never read, or even heard of, Coben before, and this despite the fact that he's sold more than 50 million books worldwide. My bad.

Six...

This week's read for 52 books in 52 weeks is, as they say, an oldie but a goodie. First published in 2001 by Yann Martel, The Life of Pi is getting a second life with the successful release of the movie version, so much so that...

So, week twelve already of my reading project -- it's spring, but it feels like winter -- and I'm reading Melanie Benjamin's The Aviator's Wife. I loved her first novel, Alice I Have Been, and saw that this, her third novel, has been on...

So, for this week's 52 books in 52 weeks read, I read Jodi Picoult's The Storyteller.

Part of me wants to stop this review right there. But, as John Green might write... Andbutso I took on this project and I read the book and so I should...

This might be odd for a writer to say, but I am not a visual reader. By that I mean, I rarely have a clear image of the characters in the books I read (or sometimes, even write). I don't create a "movie in my head" while reading a book;...

This week's read for 52 books in 52 weeks was Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter.

Like most of Binchy's books, A Week in Winter centers on a group of people who are all connected. This time, the connection is a town in Ireland called Stoneybridge,...

So this week's read was a wildcard, i.e. book I think should be on the bestseller list, The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers. And while that may not have come true -- yet -- I'm sure this is mostly related to the...

After a #fail with James Patterson's Private Berlin last week, I was happy to turn to a book I knew I would like this week, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars.

For those of you haven't read it yet -- and, seriously, what are you waiting for? -- The...

So, a couple of weeks ago I came up with this idea. I'd read 52 bestsellers in 52 weeks thereby exposing myself (in a literary way) to a bunch of new authors and books I might never have read. I'd be, like, connected to the popular literary culture...

Week five of my 52 books in 52 weeks project had me reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chybosky, which I picked because it was sitting atop the YA New York Times bestseller list. (As an aside, did you know there was a Manga...