Knopf Doubleday Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/knopf-doubleday/ 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 Knopf Doubleday Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/knopf-doubleday/ 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 James by Percival Everett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/james-by-percival-everett/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/james-by-percival-everett/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:01:03 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18302 I remember almost nothing about the plot of Huckleberry Finn, except it involved a young boy and a slave running away to save their lives and entailed rafting on the Mississippi river. As a Black man author Percival Everett remembered the tale all too well and decided this American ‘classic’ needed to be rewritten. Instead […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/james-by-percival-everett/feed/ 6 18302 8 Beautiful Backlist Books to Read Now https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/8-beautiful-backlist-books-to-read-now/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/8-beautiful-backlist-books-to-read-now/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:10:37 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14166 After a little digression on Friday, it’s back to books! Reading may be your escape during quarantine, but for many the economic issues caused by the pandemic means buying the newest releases isn’t a great idea. So, today I’ve got eight beautiful backlist books I read and loved years ago. Several I’ve never talked about […]

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