Bookmarks keeps a large online database of book reviews from major newspapers and magazines. Every two months, we rate books and summarize those reviews in the latest issue of the magazine.
Online Book Review Report View the latest reviews from around the Web during the past week. The most reviewed books during the last month were:
- Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell (13)
- Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro (12)
- A Good Fall: Stories by Ha Jin (10)
Each book reviewed in Bookmarks receives a rating from each review we summarize. Browse our highly-rated Four Star books by genre:
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New Reading Guides
We include publishers' reading group guides for some of our more popular book group choices.
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
- Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow
- That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Lark and Termite
Compared to William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips has produced an eloquent, heartrending, and suspenseful novel. The story of an injured Korean War soldier is intertwined with that of his disabled son, Termite, and Termite's half-sister, Lark. more ...
John Updike, Book by Book
Our profile from the Sept/Oct 2005 issue.
Reading Lists Around the Web
See links to Best Books of 2008 lists from around the Web.
- Stephen King: My Top 10 Books of 2009 - Entertainment Weekly
- Best Debut Fiction of 2009 - NPR
- The Best Speculative Fiction of 2009 (Paul Di Filippo) - Barnes and Noble Review
Classic "Best of" Articles
Historical Fiction - 50 novels covering more than 35,000 years of history.
Great Mysteries, Vol. II - Great picks for international, contemporary hardboiled and noir, and psychological.
Beyond Harry Potter, Vol. I - In 2003, we highlighted great fantasy books and series that readers could turn to after finishing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Volume II, covering mysteries for younger readers, appears in our Nov/Dec 2007 issue.
101 Crackerjack Sea Books - Dean King, the award-winning author of Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed, and A Sea of Words selects the top 101 nautical books.
Cara Black Interview - Part II
Bookmarks continued our conversation with Cara Black, author of the acclaimed Aimée Leduc mystery series.
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