Alfred A. Knopf Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/alfred-a-knopf/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:44:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Alfred A. Knopf Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/alfred-a-knopf/ 32 32 38398750 More 2024 Reading I Loved https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:54:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18881 I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of new releases I thought were wonderful. Each provided me with the escape I wanted in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/feed/ 4 18881 My 9 Favorite Books in 2024 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/my-9-favorite-books-in-2024/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/my-9-favorite-books-in-2024/#comments Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:18:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18858 As I started reviewing my reading year there was one stat that jumped off the chart at me. Of the 13 five-star books I read this year my favorite 9 were backlist (published before 2024). I’m sure publishing analysts could provide an easy explanation (fewer books published in an election year) or a psychologist something […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/my-9-favorite-books-in-2024/feed/ 4 18858 Coming Home by Brittney Griner https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/coming-home-by-brittney-griner/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/coming-home-by-brittney-griner/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:56:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18469 I don’t know much about women’s basketball, but I certainly know the name Brittney Griner. She is the WNBA player for the Phoenix Mercury who was wrongfully detained in Russia when cannabis vape cartridges were discovered in her luggage. She recounts her harrowing story in the memoir Coming Home. For years Griner supplemented her income […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/coming-home-by-brittney-griner/feed/ 2 18469 Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/wandering-stars-by-tommy-orange/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/wandering-stars-by-tommy-orange/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:31:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18284 And it’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand. In the midst of the 1864 Colorado Sand Creek massacre of the Cheyenne a Native boy is able to escape. After years of wandering, he finds himself in Nevada where he’s told he can go to a mission for food and shelter. He […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/wandering-stars-by-tommy-orange/feed/ 0 18284 In Memoriam: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/in-memoriam-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/in-memoriam-a-novel/#comments Tue, 23 Jan 2024 08:09:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18167 I haven’t read a war book in quite a while as I burned out on WWII after reading so many outstanding novels on the subject. But a friend recommended In Memoriam and while I was resistant at first my 2024 reading has been tepid at best so I decided to give it a chance. And just […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/in-memoriam-a-novel/feed/ 4 18167 My 8 Favorite Books of 2023 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:20:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18102   Finally! Let’s talk reading again, specifically my favorite books of 2023 so we can move onto what lies ahead in 2024. It was an interesting year in that I don’t remember another time when I had this many 5-star nonfiction books. I’m not even sure I’ve ever read so much great nonfiction in one […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/feed/ 12 18102 The Art Thief by Michael Finkel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-art-thief-by-michael-finkel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-art-thief-by-michael-finkel/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:47:04 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17718 I love books about art, whether they’re fiction or nonfiction so Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief was an easy reading choice. It’s the true story of a modern day art thief in France and is a heady combination of both fiction and nonfiction in that it’s true, but reads with the pace and plot twists […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-art-thief-by-michael-finkel/feed/ 4 17718 The Swimmers: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-swimmers-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-swimmers-a-novel/#comments Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:16:46 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17706 A beautifully composed, but unusual novel, there’s not a lot of action in The Swimmers so if plot and pace are a criteria for your summer reading, save this contemplative beauty for the fall.  It’s the story of a swimming pool and the group of swimmers who churn, wade, bounce, and glide through its lanes. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-swimmers-a-novel/feed/ 6 17706 February Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/february-reading-wrap-up-6/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/february-reading-wrap-up-6/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:12:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17325 February was a month of extremes. I either held onto a book for dear life or dropped it like a bad habit. There was no middle ground. Thankfully, the majority of what I read was outstanding with 6 of the 11 novels I read being 4 stars or higher. DNFs are painful, but that disappointment […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/03/february-reading-wrap-up-6/feed/ 10 17325 A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/a-burning-a-novel-by-megha-majumdar/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/a-burning-a-novel-by-megha-majumdar/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:35:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14455 Jivan is a young woman living with her parents in a slum in India. She is a sales clerk at a nice clothing store. Everyone around her is shocked then when she is arrested for the bombing of a commuter train that killed over 100 people. She is the nexus at the center of Megha […]

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