Riverhead Books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/riverhead-books/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:11:17 +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 Riverhead Books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/riverhead-books/ 32 32 38398750 Crux by Gabriel Tallent https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:33:32 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19492 Life in a nowhere town in the Mojave Desert should be torture for teens, but Daniel and Tamma are rock-climbing freaks and the area is filled with challenging boulders. Best friends since childhood they spend every waking moment not in school out on the rocks, but as Crux opens it is senior year. Daniel is […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/crux-by-gabriel-tallent/feed/ 2 19492 The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-invisible-kingdom-reimagining-chronic-illness/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-invisible-kingdom-reimagining-chronic-illness/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:49:22 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17219 I don’t often discuss personal issues in this blog, but for those of you who have been around long enough, you know I have multiple sclerosis. Recently, I read a book that resonated so deeply with me I knew it could have the same impact on other readers. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-invisible-kingdom-reimagining-chronic-illness/feed/ 9 17219 The Displacements https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:07:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16982 In the late 70s, early 80s disaster books and movies were most often centered around manmade situations—The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, The China Syndrome, and Airport. It was man’s technical overreach that was going to take us down or at least had us worried. The latest crop of disaster novels is again looking at […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/09/the-displacements/feed/ 2 16982 June Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:08:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16806 June. What a month. Normally, this is a recap of my reading, but no matter how I try to stick to the subject of books my brain refuses to cooperate. By this time next week we’ll be starting the 2,200 mile trip from Ann Arbor to Seattle. The unending list of what needs to be […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/07/june-reading-recap/feed/ 4 16806 This Time Tomorrow https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/this-time-tomorrow/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/this-time-tomorrow/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2022 04:57:17 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16770 I’ve had mixed success with time travel novels this summer (I’m looking at you, One Italian Summer) so I was a bit hesitant to pick up This Time Tomorrow. What swayed me is that it’s by Emma Straub, whose last novel All Adults Here was a favorite of mine. Thankfully, while I may not have […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/this-time-tomorrow/feed/ 10 16770 My 6 Favorite Debuts of 2021 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2021 05:53:08 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16321   Happy Monday and welcome to my first yearend best-of lists. Today is a favorite category: best debuts. Finding new authors is one of my greatest reading pleasures and 2021 proved to be a very good year. Of all my reading, 38% was debut authors and of those debuts I rated 36% 3.5 stars or […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/feed/ 6 16321 Shiner: A Novel by Amy Jo Burns https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/shiner-a-novel-by-amy-jo-burns/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/shiner-a-novel-by-amy-jo-burns/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2021 05:18:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16314 Stories of contemporary Southern mountain men abound (Bull Mountain, The Line That Held Us), but examples of women are a bit harder to come by. The fact Amy Jo Burns brings three such women to life in her novel, Shiner, is just one outstanding element of many in this lush debut. Raised in isolation in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/shiner-a-novel-by-amy-jo-burns/feed/ 8 16314 The Paper Palace https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-paper-palace/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-paper-palace/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2021 04:15:49 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15951 No more regrets for what I haven’t done. Now only regrets for what I have done. I love him, I hate myself. I love myself, I hate him. This is the end of a long story. These are the words of Eleanor (Elle) a 50-year-old, happily married woman who had sex last night with Jonas, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/07/the-paper-palace/feed/ 14 15951 The First Day of Spring https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/the-first-day-of-spring/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/the-first-day-of-spring/#comments Mon, 17 May 2021 04:11:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15681 “I am here. I am here. I am here. You will not forget me.” These are the words painted on a wall by 8-year-old Chrissie, a girl so desperate for attention in a world that gives her none that she commits a reprehensible act. She lives alone with her mother and everything, including love, is […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/the-first-day-of-spring/feed/ 6 15681 What Comes After https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/what-comes-after/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/05/what-comes-after/#comments Mon, 10 May 2021 04:31:14 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15666 When a novel begins with a shocking act of violence it often indicates more dramatics, more action, to come. In the case of What Comes After, author Joanne Tompkins opts to go a different route, turning the novel inward to the lives of the characters left behind. A small Washington town is rocked when childhood […]

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