October 3, 2022. Namwali Serpell’s luminous new novel about a missing sibling bends and blends genre in a searching exploration of grief. Review in The Seattle Times, here.

October 4, 2022. Celeste Ng talks about anti-Asian discrimination and violence, and the dystopia of "Our Missing Hearts." Review here.

October 6, 2022. French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life in France since the 1940s. Article in The Seattle Times, here. A little more information and more of her books, on our blog, here.

October 10, 2022. Charles Leerhsen defends his thoroughly researched but unauthorized biography of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who took his own life in 2018. Article in The Seattle Times, here.

October 10, 2022. NPR reporter Nina Totenberg's book about her friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg highlights a journalistic dilemma: How friendly to be with a source? In The Seattle Times, here.

October 10, 2022. Chronicling a trip to London, Elizabeth McCracken dances around whether her newest book is truly a novel or a memoir. Column in The Seattle Times, here.

October 11, 2022. In “No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies,” Julian Aguon lays out a case for hope, rage, storytelling and beauty in the face of climate change. In The Seattle Times, here.

October 12, 2022. Many Seattleites have been reading the same book. Here's a chance to talk with the author.
Luis Alberto Urrea will lead discussions at three events Oct. 19-20, with one of them in Spanish, as part of Seattle Public Library’s citywide book club. In the Times, here.

October 17, 2022. Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” a satirical “afterlife noir” set during Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war. The article here.

October 18, 2022. Oprah Winfrey’s newest book club choice is Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead,” a modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield." The article here.
In a statement Tuesday, Winfrey called Kingsolver’s 560-page novel “the kind of epic you want to read this fall.”

October 18, 2022. "Sinister Graves" is the third novel in a series following Cash Blackbear. Gripping looks at missing, murdered Indigenous women. The review here.

October 21, 2022. Seattle Times book critic Moira Macdonald is back and so is her monthly look at mystery and crime fiction. The Plot Thickens column here.

October 24, 2022. From bizarre bite-sized stories to a straight-up psychological thriller, there’s a title for everyone to celebrate spooky season. 5 books that are sure to raise the hair on the back of your neck. The column here.