HOW FACEBOOK BUNGLED its plan to launch an ambitious cryptocurrency: well researched, witty look at a complete business disaster. B PLUS

LIBRA SHRUGGED
Independently Published
2020

CHAMPION, CELEBRITY…SPY? Intriguing biography of Alice Marble, who was definitely a tennis great and maybe also a World War II secret agent. B PLUS

THE DIVINE MISS MARBLE
Dutton
2020

UNLIKELY VAMPIRE HUNTERS—a Romanian expat and a burned-out DC cop—unite in this fusion of horror, science fiction, and police procedural. Smart and well paced thriller. B PLUS

THE ALIGNMENT
W &amp
2020

A LEADING UK FORENSIC scientist examines and debunks some of the myths surrounding crime scene investigation, drawing on his experiences as researcher and expert witness in high-profile murders. Thoughtful, precise, revealing. B PLUS

MURDER UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Atlantic Books
2021

AN INTRICATE TAPESTRY OF A NOVEL, woven from the few facts we know of Shakespeare’s life, tells a brutally beautiful tale of love and loss. A MINUS

HAMNET
Knopf
2020

THE ASTONISHING INTELLIGENCE OF BIRDS is spotlighted in this fascinating story of the latest findings from researchers and observers around the world. Richly detailed and completely engrossing. A MINUS

THE BIRD WAY
Penguin Press
2020

INTENSE SCIENCE FICTION THRILLER with non-stop action and one of the best plots since Jurassic Park. A MINUS

THE TWIN PARADOX (THE TWIN PARADOX SERIES BOOK 1)
Trevaney Bay
2020

CHARMING ROMANTIC MYSTERY with a vivid Tennessee setting, an extravagant array of characters, and a preposterous yet somehow gripping plot. B PLUS

ENGAGEMENT AND ESPIONAGE
Cipher-Naught
2020

INSIGHTFUL INQUIRY INTO HOW RACISM in the US has created a self-reinforcing caste system draws connections to the history of India’s caste system and Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws. Thought-provoking and powerful. A MINUS

CASTE (OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB)
Random House
2020

ELEGANT STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS NOVEL presents a young woman’s day, bit by bit, as her thoughts reveal anxiety, self-harm, infatuation, impatience, alienation, and trauma. Daring and resonant. B PLUS

LITTLE SCRATCH
Doubleday
2020