20th century Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/20th-century/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:52:20 +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 20th century Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/20th-century/ 32 32 38398750 The Heart of Winter https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/the-heart-of-winter/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/the-heart-of-winter/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:49:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19027 When Abe and Ruth meet on a blind date while students at the University of Washington it’s not love at first sight. In fact, it’s not even like. Ruth finds Abe to be stodgy, full of himself, and boring. He, on the other hand, is captivated by her vivacious personality and her varied interests, even […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/the-heart-of-winter/feed/ 4 19027 Jackie: A Novel by Dawn Tripp https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/jackie-a-novel-by-dawn-tripp/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/jackie-a-novel-by-dawn-tripp/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:41:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18498 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was one of the most talked about women of the 20th century. An ocean of words exists, including her own, allowing analysis and dissection of every aspect of her life to feed the insatiable appetite of those fascinated by this enigmatic woman. What could another book possibly offer? In the case of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/jackie-a-novel-by-dawn-tripp/feed/ 0 18498 In Light of All Darkness https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/in-light-of-all-darkness/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/in-light-of-all-darkness/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:46:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17996 The Polly Klaas kidnapping and murder in California was thirty years ago, but is still known today as the event that changed how the criminal justice system responds in child abduction cases. Kim Cross documents the aftermath of the Klaas kidnapping alongside the actions of investigators, police, and the FBI in her new book In […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/in-light-of-all-darkness/feed/ 2 17996 One Woman Show https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/one-woman-show/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/one-woman-show/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:26:57 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17945 Caroline Margaret Brooks Whitaker Wallingford de Braganza Deen (aka Kitty), the epitome of 20th century American wealth, is depicted through art in the novel, One Woman Show. How does one represent a woman as art in a written format? Author Christine Coulson, whose imagination is as expansive as the art at the Metropolitan Museum of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/one-woman-show/feed/ 0 17945 The Covenant of Water https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/the-covenant-of-water/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/the-covenant-of-water/#comments Mon, 01 May 2023 07:10:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17514 Abraham Verghese is back with a new novel 14 years after his critically acclaimed bestseller, Cutting for Stone. The Covenant of Water is a saga spanning 70 years about one family with an unusual history—in every generation there is a family member with an aversion to water who ends up drowning. Verghese uses this mysterious […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/the-covenant-of-water/feed/ 20 17514 When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/when-the-stars-go-dark-by-paula-mclain/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/when-the-stars-go-dark-by-paula-mclain/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2021 04:35:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15624 Paula McLain is well-known for her historical fiction about women.  This month she flips the script on her readers with When the Stars Go Dark, a complex mystery set in 1990s Northern California. There, Anna Hart is a missing persons detective who needs time off after a devastating personal loss. She heads to Mendocino to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/when-the-stars-go-dark-by-paula-mclain/feed/ 4 15624 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2020 04:49:12 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14438 Where to begin with Brit Bennett’s new novel The Vanishing Half? Ostensibly it’s the story of identical twins Stella and Desiree who grow up in Mallard, a small, poor community in the Deep South, comprised solely of light-skinned black people. But given what’s happening in America right now reviewing a book about race feels fraught, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett/feed/ 10 14438 The Lager Queen of Minnesota https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-lager-queen-of-minnesota/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-lager-queen-of-minnesota/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2019 07:21:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13003   I absolutely loved J. Ryan Stradal’s debut novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest so was nervous about his second novel. Sophomore efforts can be notoriously underwhelming. Happily, this was not the case with The Lager Queen of Minnesota. The story is about two sisters, Edith and Helen, and the wildly different paths their lives take […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/the-lager-queen-of-minnesota/feed/ 6 13003 If You Want to Make God Laugh: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:33:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12994 Delilah hasn’t been home in forty years, but when she arrives on her family’s farm in South Africa it’s to find her sister Ruth drunk on the couch and getting ready to sell the place. The sisters are polar opposites. Literally. Delilah left the family at 17 to become a nun and when that didn’t […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/07/if-you-want-to-make-god-laugh/feed/ 8 12994 Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/mrs-everything-by-jennifer-weiner/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/mrs-everything-by-jennifer-weiner/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:51:00 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12868 It’s the 1950s and tradition reigns in America. For the most part the Kaufmans fit in. Except for Jo, who’s more interested in sports and playing with the daughter of their maid, both of which cause her mother no end of aggravation. Her younger sister Bethie was their mother’s favorite—pretty, popular, and destined either to […]

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