BRILLIANTLY IMAGINED SF follows a brave, complex genius from an interstellar university back home to Earth. A MINUS

BINTI: HOME (PAPERBACK)
St. Martin's Press
2017

SHIRLEY JACKSON’S LIFE—complex, spooky, funny, loving, angry—captured in a rich, fascinating biography. A MINUS

SHIRLEY JACKSON : A RATHER HAUNTED LIFE
Liveright Publishing Corporation
2016

THE POWER OF PLACEBO, and other ways the brain is part of the healing process. Engaging, well researched! A MINUS

SUGGESTIBLE YOU: THE CURIOUS SCIENCE OF YOUR BRAIN'S ABILITY TO DECEIVE, TRANSFORM, AND HEAL (HARDCOVER)
National Geographic Society
2016

THE WORLD’S PRICIEST AQUARIUM FISH and the wild, sometimes dangerous world that surrounds it. Astonishing! A MINUS

THE DRAGON BEHIND THE GLASS: A TRUE STORY OF POWER, OBSESSION, AND THE WORLD’S MOST COVETED FISH
Scribner
2016

THE UNDEAD HAUNT HOLLYWOOD in this brilliantly imagined cocktail of ancient legend and film history. A MINUS

ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BURBANK: A NOVEL
HarperCollins Publishers
2016

A SPELLBINDING VATICAN THRILLER! Somehow, Robert Harris infuses an arcane Catholic ceremony with suspense. A MINUS

CONCLAVE
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2016

THE AMAZING WORLD OF MICROBES, from coral reefs to wasps to our own bodies. Fascinating, fun, engaging! A MINUS

I CONTAIN MULTITUDES: THE MICROBES WITHIN US AND A GRANDER VIEW OF LIFE (HARDCOVER)
Ecco Press
2016

“THE WORST GOOD IDEA ever”—brilliant, cynical history of the USSR’s ill-fated Jewish Autonomous Region. A MINUS

WHERE THE JEWS AREN’T: THE SAD AND ABSURD STORY OF BIROBIDZHAN, RUSSIA’S JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2016

“THE WORST GOOD IDEA ever”—brilliant, cynical history of the USSR’s ill-fated Jewish Autonomous Region.

HILARIOUS, HIGH-ENERGY FLORIDA thriller is Carl Hiaasen at the peak of his game. Completely entertaining! A MINUS

RAZOR GIRL – AUTOGRAPHED COPY
Random House
2016