Riverhead Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/riverhead/ 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 Riverhead Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/riverhead/ 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 September Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/september-reading-wrap-up-7/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/september-reading-wrap-up-7/#comments Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:04:26 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18695 Having binged the final two seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel this was the only possible graphic I could use for my September recap. Plus, it’s been quite chilly and grey here. So many big book releases this month and I didn’t read most of them. I’m embracing the new normal of my reading—whatever keeps me turning […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/september-reading-wrap-up-7/feed/ 2 18695 The God of the Woods https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/the-god-of-the-woods/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/the-god-of-the-woods/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:58:17 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18531   “To panic was to make an enemy of the forest. To stay calm was to be its friend.” —T.J. Hewitt, Director, Camp Emerson Summer sleepaway camp goes one of two ways for attendees—either an idyllic time or one of misery. Somehow author Liz Moore manages to encompass both in her new thriller, The God […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/07/the-god-of-the-woods/feed/ 2 18531 My Murder by Katie Williams https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/my-murder-by-katie-williams/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/my-murder-by-katie-williams/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:30:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18351 When My Murder begins Louise is still getting used to her body, luxuriating in the smallest of its sensations. Every movement feels like a gift and in its way, it is. The real Louise, or the original woman, was one of five women slain by a serial killer and this Louise is a clone. The government […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/my-murder-by-katie-williams/feed/ 0 18351 Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/age-of-vice-by-deepti-kapoor/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/age-of-vice-by-deepti-kapoor/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2023 08:22:26 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17214 Anyone else remember the good old days of Sidney Sheldon, Penny Vincenzi, Nelson DeMille, any of those authors who wrote massive novels that were so stuffed with plot you couldn’t stop reading? Maybe it’s just my reading taste, but most of the longer novels I read now are literary fiction or historical. It was fun […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/age-of-vice-by-deepti-kapoor/feed/ 4 17214 Little Family by Ishmael Beah https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/little-family-by-ishmael-beah/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/little-family-by-ishmael-beah/#comments Mon, 18 May 2020 04:12:24 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14342 In an abandoned field hidden by a maze of thickets, trees, and shrubs is a downed airplane. When it crashed is unknown, but in this unnamed African country it has become home for four young people and one little girl. In Little Family they use stealth, determination, and their wits to survive in a world that […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/little-family-by-ishmael-beah/feed/ 6 14342 If I Had Your Face https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/if-i-had-your-face/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/if-i-had-your-face/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2020 04:25:47 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14262   I would live your life so much better than you if I had your face. Last week, I visited historical Korea when I read Pachinko. I learned so much about the country, but once again, fiction is taking me into an aspect of Korea I had no idea existed. I know about the South […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/if-i-had-your-face/feed/ 2 14262 December Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/december-reading-wrap-up-2/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/december-reading-wrap-up-2/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:26:58 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13602 If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time you know I can get pretty cranky about my reading and that this year was a rough one for me. Both of which make this monthly recap a bit shocking: December was far and away one of the best month’s I’ve ever had for […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/december-reading-wrap-up-2/feed/ 8 13602 Ten Best Books of 2019 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/ten-best-books-of-2019/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/ten-best-books-of-2019/#comments Fri, 20 Dec 2019 05:30:48 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13558   Well, what do you know. Rather than being my usual contrarian self, I actually have ten books I consider to be the best of 2019. Of course, that doesn’t include the eight debut novels I wrote about on Wednesday, but let’s not split hairs. The point is: ALL of these books are marvelous. Even […]

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