In which the owner of Newtonville Books recommends books for your reading pleasure
If You Like School, You’ll Love Work
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Bunny by Mona Awad
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
The Bishop’s Bedroom by Piero Chiara
The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Iphone Interview: Clare Beams
Staff Pick by Vickie
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
In the News
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Penguin Book of Migration by Dohra Ahmed
The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Middle Grade Pick of the Week
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Five Books to Save the Planet
Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet – One Bite at a Time by Dr. Mark Hyman
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time by Will McCallum
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good by Elizabeth L. Cline
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken, foreword by Tom Steyer
Reader Recommendation
Derek Raymond’s The Factory series
The Expendable Man, In a Lonely Place, Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes