Vol. 1 · Issue 2026
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Honest editorial reviews, curated reading lists, and AI recommendations from a small team of stubborn readers.
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A Court of Mist and Fury
by Sarah J. Maas
“A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas 2016 review. The second ACOTAR book and the volume that broke the romantasy genre open. Feyre's recovery from Under the Mountain and the Night Court arc.”
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 2021 review. Five characters across three timelines connected by a fictional ancient Greek novel. Doerr's follow-up to All the Light We Cannot See.
Empire of Pain
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 review. The Sackler family and the operational mechanics of Purdue Pharma's OxyContin marketing strategy across three generations. The canonical contemporary investigative non-fiction book on the opioid crisis.
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 2017 review. Abraham Lincoln's eleven-year-old son Willie dies and Lincoln returns to the Georgetown cemetery. The Bardo is populated by the cemetery's reluctant dead. Man Booker Prize 2017.
Outlive
by Peter Attia
Outlive by Peter Attia 2023 review. A medical strategy for extending healthspan by directly addressing cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and Type 2 diabetes. The bestselling popular medicine book of 2023.
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 2023 review. A Dublin mother of four watches Ireland slide into an emergency-power dictatorship. Booker Prize 2023 and one of the canonical contemporary dystopian literary novels.
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