Book Reviews

4.7

Lisa Steele's The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook is a recipe-driven hardcover from Harper Celebrate (February 2022) that draws on her background as a fifth-generation chicken keeper in Maine to deliver more than 100 recipes spanning breakfast staples, breads, sandwiches, soups, salads, pasta, beverages, cakes, pies, and condiments — all centered on eggs. Publishers Weekly awarded it a starred review, calling it "innovative and plucky" and concluding it "will be hard to beat." This review assesses the book's content, structure, and published reception; it does not reflect a kitchen test.

Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

4.7

Every Last Word is a New York Times bestselling young adult novel by Tamara Ireland Stone, originally published in June 2015 and later reissued, following sixteen-year-old Samantha McAllister as she navigates a double life — popular girl on the surface, secret OCD sufferer underneath — until a hidden poetry club called Poet's Corner cracks her world open. Kirkus Reviews calls it "Clueless meets Dead Poets Society with a whopping final twist," and the novel has earned a sustained readership as a BookTok sensation, praised for its internal, emotionally grounded portrayal of OCD and its genuinely surprising ending.

Sales Management. Simplified.: The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from by Mike Weinberg

4.7

Published by AMACOM in 2015, Mike Weinberg's Sales Management. Simplified.: The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team is a direct, no-nonsense business book structured in two parts: a frank diagnosis of why sales organizations consistently fall short, followed by a concrete framework for fixing them. Packed with case studies and written for executives, new sales managers, and seasoned leaders alike, it has drawn strong praise from readers and practitioners who describe it as among the most useful books available on sales management.

Quick and Easy High Protein Low Carb Cookbook for Beginners: Lose Weight, Build Lean Muscles, Curb Cravings, by Jeanna Miller

4.5

Jeanna Miller's independently published cookbook targets beginners looking to lose weight, build lean muscle, and curb cravings through high-protein, low-carb eating — packaging over 100 recipes and a 90-day meal plan into a compact, accessible format.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

4.4

First published in 1932, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World remains one of the most celebrated and challenged dystopian novels in the English language — ranked number 5 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels in English of the 20th century, and a perennial fixture on banned-books lists. Set in a future World State where citizens are biologically engineered into a rigid caste hierarchy and kept compliant through psychological conditioning and the pleasure-drug soma, the novel uses protagonist John the Savage to expose the hidden violence beneath a society engineered for contentment. Huxley's dense, philosophically charged prose rewards patient readers willing to wrestle with its ideas about freedom, technology, and the cost of stability.

The Complete Air Fryer Cooking Guide: 275+ Most Popular Cooking Times by Sam Milner, Dom Milner

4.4

Sam and Dom Milner's The Complete Air Fryer Cooking Guide is a compact, laminated flip-chart reference published by White Lion Publishing, designed to give air fryer users instant access to cooking times and temperatures for more than 275 ingredients — from poultry and fish to vegetables and frozen foods. A Sunday Times bestseller, it is built for the kitchen wall or fridge door rather than the bookshelf, and comes with both a hook and a magnetic adhesive strip to keep it within reach during cooking. This review assesses the guide's content, design, and reception from published sources, not from a kitchen test.

I Could Live Here: A Travel Memoir of Home and Belonging by Ellen Barone

4.4

Ellen Barone's debut memoir chronicles the decade-long nomadic journey she and her husband Hank embarked on after their rented house sold unexpectedly in 2011 — a planned one-year experiment through four countries that quietly expanded into a way of life spanning multiple continents. Published in 2023 by Abhuta, the memoir is a candid, open-hearted account of long-stay travel, shifting notions of home, and the personal transformation that comes from choosing impermanence over rootedness.

The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka

4.3

Sarah Susanka's The Not So Big House is a bestselling architecture and home-design book that makes the case for building and remodeling around quality rather than square footage — a philosophy that reshaped how many Americans think about residential space. The expanded edition, published by The Taunton Press, adds a new introduction and new chapter to the original, giving both new and returning readers fresh material alongside Susanka's foundational argument.

Fast Boys and Pretty Girls: A Novel by Lo Patrick

3.6

Lo Patrick's third novel is a gritty, coming-of-age Southern mystery that excavates the obsessive, devastating power of first love through the story of Danielle Greer — a North Georgia country girl whose past refuses to stay buried, even after a body surfaces in her own backyard.

The 5am Habit: Master Your Morning and Transform Your Life by Pete Sumner, jSw

Published in March 2025 by Pete Sumner and jSw, The 5am Habit: Master Your Morning and Transform Your Life is a short-form self-help Kindle title positioning itself as a science-backed, practical guide to reclaiming the early hours of the day — a modest but focused entry in a crowded genre, best suited to readers who want a quick-start framework rather than a deep philosophical exploration.

Mar 31, 2026

Essential Novelists - Alice Duer Miller: Are women people? by Alice Duer Miller, August Nemo

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times is Alice Duer Miller's landmark collection of satirical poetry and prose, originally serialized in the New York Tribune, that skewered anti-suffragist arguments with wit, rhyme, and pointed irony. This Essential Novelists edition, curated by August Nemo, brings Miller's five-section collection to modern readers in Kindle format, preserving a work the New York Times recognized on its list of important new books upon the collection's original publication.

Mar 31, 2026

Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary is Andy Weir's hard science fiction novel and a #1 New York Times bestseller that follows Ryland Grace — a junior high school science teacher with a PhD in molecular biology — who wakes aboard a spacecraft with no memory, two dead crewmates, and sole responsibility for saving humanity from extinction. The novel earned a Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist nod, won the 2022 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year (read by Ray Porter), and has spent 47 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list as of May 2026. Kirkus Reviews awarded it a starred review, calling it "nothing short of a science fiction masterwork," and the novel has since been adapted into a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.