Under the Dome by Stephen King I probably would have waited to buy this until it was released as a paperback if it hadn't been for the fact that it was on sale for $9 when I saw it. Despite its size, I read it over a weekend, so it was definitely...

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro This novel is definitely a little ambiguous. At only 183 pages, it is the shortest novel I've read in a long time, and there are many questions that are not quite answered. Etsuko, the narrator, is an older...

Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum Shortly after The Reader came out last year, I found an article by Rosenbaum arguing that the film tried to excuse the German people from their responsibility and knowledge of the Holocaust and that for this reason,...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Occasionally I like to pretend to myself that I am not part of the mindless masses and that just because everyone else has read it or it's a #1 New York Times...

American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard This book was incredibly powerful, but it's also very depressing. After reading this book, especially the first two sections, I almost lost whatever hope and faith I had in human...