While 2016 hasn’t been the best year in celebrity news and politics, it has been a year of simply amazing reads. Here are our absolute favorite reads of 2016, in no particular order. Click the book covers to read the reviews. Have many of these have you read?
Sarah J. Maas has been dominating the bestseller lists and the GoodReads Choice awards for the past couple of years with her Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses series as she’s been churning out novel after thick novel in both incredibly popular series each year. Empire of Storms is the fifth book…
James Rollins will present THE SEVENTH PLAGUE at GIBSON’S BOOKSTORE (45 S Main ST, Concord, NH 03301) Thursday, January 26, 2017 @ 7:00 PM In this new thriller, he poses a solution for global warming, but asks, at what cost. Featuring an ‘Elon Musk’ like character and a unique perspective on the friendship between Mark…
The Rise of the Boe is is the second book in The Tinker and the Fold series by father and son team Evan and Scott Gordon. This scifi adventure is meant for middle school and young adult readers. There will be some spoilers in this review on the first book, so if you’re planning on…
Problem with Solaris 3 is the first book in The Tinker and the Fold series by Evan and Scott Gordon, a father and son duo. I was intrigued by the reviews from Kirkus and California Bookwatch, and even more curious when I discovered that Evan (the son) is only in middle school. Could we have another Christopher…
The Fireman is Joe Hill’s latest horror/scfi thriller where a deadly infection has set the world ablaze and toxic ashes fall day and night. It recently won the GoodRead’s Choice Awards for Best Horror (2016) and has excited fans with its similarities to Firestarter. Local readers will be excited to know that The Fireman is set in…
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor for The Atlantic, is an essay written to his son on growing up black, specifically on the subjugation and the preservation of ‘black bodies’. It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2015), an ALA Alex Award (2016), the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2015), a Pulitzer…
L.D. Rose is a local New England author hailing from Rhode Island. Description Fledgling vampire Jonathan Kerr has just met his match. Not even his past life as a former marine and FBI agent could prepare him for the battle against the monster inside him, struggling to take hold. After an old nemesis of the…
Ignite Me is the conclusion to Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series, a young adult dystopian romance. If you haven’t read the series but plan to, skip to the review of the first book in the series because this review will contain major spoilers. Harper Collins | Kindle Edition | 2014 | 421 pp Shatter Me (Shatter…
New Bedford Whaling Museum to publish long-awaited and artfully illustrated whaling journal, considered a masterpiece of its genre. “Around the World in Search of Whales: A Journal of the Lucy Ann Voyage” launches Dec.9 By John F. Martin, edited by Kenneth R. Martin “Cursed whaling and quit it. Dam them [who] will not get up…