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Jeff Hardy Author Of Finding God in the Gulag: A History of Christianity in the Soviet Penal System

From Jeff's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Jeff Hardy Why Jeff loves this book

Cautionary tale of what is happening in the world of politics and the media all over the world. Sobering to see how the far right has become so unhinged from Western values (even as they proclaim to be the defenders of Western values....).

By Anne Applebaum ,

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3 authors picked Twilight of Democracy as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David Hare

In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. Yet over the following decades the euphoria evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared, extremism rose once more and eventually - as this book compellingly relates - the relationships soured too.

Anne Applebaum traces this history in an unfamiliar…


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These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

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Judith Lissauer Cromwell Author Of Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Portrait of an Artist, 1755-1842

From Judith's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Judith Lissauer Cromwell Why Judith loves this book

This is the second, or possibly third time I’ve read this gripping epic so I had some idea of the story, set in the revolutionary and war-ridden years immediately before and during Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia, (1812) and the dramatic characters Tolstoy presents and makes his readers understand in such masterly fashion. Nonetheless, I found the readable new (Pevear and Volokhonsky) translation to be a page turner.

By Leo Tolstoy , Richard Pevear (translator) , Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)

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14 authors picked War and Peace as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

War and Peacebroadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both…


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Patrick Dean Author Of Nature's Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World

From Patrick's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Patrick Dean Why Patrick loves this book

I knew the main subjects of this dual biography, but their respective fates and their places in scientific history are portrayed in a brilliant and unexpected way in Every Living Thing.

By Jason Roberts ,

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3 authors picked Every Living Thing as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth—a competition “with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid double biography is a passionate corrective” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice).

“[A] vibrant scientific saga . . . at once important, outrageous, enlightening, entertaining, enduring, and still evolving.”—Dava Sobel, author of Longitude

In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed…


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A Forgivable Indecision by Shawn Jennings,

In 1913, a 15-year-old pregnant girl was found dead of apparent suicide. Dr. James Wilson, a new graduate and the first doctor ever to start a practice in this rural town, feels guilty over her death because of his delayed intervention.

He knows Bessie was raped by one of her…

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Gayle Rosengren Author Of What the Moon Said

From Gayle's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Gayle Rosengren Why Gayle loves this book

There were so many seeminly disparate threads to the epistolary storyline but they came together so naturally and beautifully in the end.

By Virginia Evans ,

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12 authors picked The Correspondent as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Discover the emotional, funny, unforgettable BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, Amazon Best Book of 2025 and New York Times bestselling word-of-mouth sensation that thousands of readers are calling their favourite book of the year...

Over 30,000 five star reviews on Goodreads!

'THIS NOVEL IS A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION' Ann Patchett

'I WAS DELIGHTED AND MOVED . . . MASTERFUL' New York Times

'I CAN'T PRAISE IT ENOUGH. AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH' Clare Chambers

'THIS NOVEL IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER JOY' Ann Napolitano

'I DON'T HAVE ANY WORDS. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY' Reader review

'I THINK I'VE JUST FINISHED MY…


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