We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen is a spellbinding, award winning novel spanning 100 years in a small Danish coastal town Marstal, and its inhabitats
The main characters, Jim Hawkins and Long John Sliver have certainly cemented themselves as two of the most intriguing and dimensional characters in literature
While not written in chronological order, the book is thought provoking as it deals with people impacted by decisions of world leaders thousands of miles away.
The amazing story of Louis Zamperini an American athlete, World War II Air Corp bombardier who survived a crash and interment in a Japanese POW camp.
Mark Twain spent years writing his autobiography in many forms – essays, transcripts, transcribing and notes producing an immense, and amazing body of work.
“Three Seconds” by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström has many things going in one book. The novel is a bleak crime drama, a conspiracy story and a detective story. The story is morally complex, visceral and the reading is demanding but well worth the effort.
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens tells a gripping story of lost history and the role the female heirs of Genghis Khan played in his Empire.
The book follows a young boy named Daniel and has possibly one of the best literary inventions of the decade the “Cemetery of Forgotten Books”.
Jay Kirk has done the impossible, Kingdom Under Glass is a book about a taxidermist not only interesting, but entertaining as well. A job well done.
This is the kind of history book I love. Mr. Chernow tells of little known anecdotes which not only tell of of the character, but even relevant to this day