The Gilmore Guide to Books

The Last Mandarin

Catherine — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:08:40 +0000

Louise Penny is back with her second thriller written with a co-author. In this case it’s award-winning journalist Mellisa Fung who’s helped craft The Last Mandarin. The novel opens on a normal day when an unusual event occurs that creates immediate chaos in the world. A geopolitical terrorist attack that brings together an unlikely couple; […]

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The Tapestry of Fate

Catherine — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:05:47 +0000

The infamous pirate Amina al-Sirafi is back. She made her debut in Shannon Chakraborty’s novel The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, where she was brought out of retirement to retrieve a kidnapped girl. When Tapestry of Fate, the newest novel in the series, begins it is years later and she’s happily living in her isolated home […]

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I, Medusa

Catherine — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:03:38 +0000

Is there anything worse than being the ugly duckling in a family of gorgeous women? Yes. You could be mortal and they could be goddesses. That’s life for 17-year-old Meddy in I, Medusa by Ayana Gray, a refreshing retelling of the Greek myth about the monster Medusa. Meddy is a tomboy who loves books and […]

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Son of Nobody

Catherine — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:58:48 +0000

Yann Martel, author of The Life of Pi has a new novel, Son of Nobody and it’s safe to say his unique narrative style has not changed. Instead of a lone lifeboat adrift for 227 days, Son of Nobody takes place in two distinctly different settings, the Trojan War, and the Bodleian Library at Oxford. […]

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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Catherine — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:16:56 +0000

Natalie is a God-fearing women living a righteous life on a massive cattle ranch in Idaho. She is a loving wife and mother to five happy, healthy children with a sixth on the way. That she monetizes her life and that it might not be as “real” as she portrays it is the crux of […]

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Vigil by George Saunders

Catherine — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:48:58 +0000

In Vigil by George Saunders Jill is an angel who helps the dying transition into death. Her latest assignment is K.J. Boone, a Texan oilman. Jill’s purpose is to comfort but also to give the person an opportunity to repent, but Boone wants none of that. He has nothing to be sorry for and is […]

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Saoirse by Charleen Hurtobise

Catherine — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:35:16 +0000

A teenage girl in fear for her life steals both money and a passport to get out of the U.S. and into Ireland in the 1990s. This is the beginning of the novel Saoirse, but it’s nowhere near the beginning of the life of Sarah, the main character. That unspools slowly throughout the book as […]

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Two Kinds of Stranger

Catherine — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:17:35 +0000

Plot has been my friend for months now so turning to a thriller in a series I’ve loved is no big surprise. Yes, Eddie Flynn, the former grifter turned lawyer is back in Steve Cavanagh’s book, Two Kinds of Stranger. This time he’s representing an Instagram influencer accused of murdering her husband and his mistress, […]

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Family of Spies

Catherine — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:40:35 +0000

Here we are nearing the end of March and this is my first nonfiction review. That’s a pretty good summation of my 2026 nonfiction reading so far. I’m staying as far away from reality as possible. However, when I saw Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn at the library it looked intriguing enough that I […]

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Neverworld Wake: A Novel

Catherine — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:22:06 +0000

Beatrice returns from her college freshman year still haunted by the death of her boyfriend senior year. His loss fractured the close-knit popular group they’d been a part of, but when one of them has a party and invites Bea she hopes by seeing the group again she can get the closure she so desperately […]

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