Archive - Books on GIF

May 2025

Three More Books You Can Finish In a Day or Two

'Ghost Wall' by Sarah Moss, 'The Brush' by Eliana Hernández-Pachón and 'Blue in Green' by Wesley Brown—Review #257

May 25

Reader's Choice: Nonfiction

Your options: 'Conquest of the Useless' by Werner Herzog, 'The Village of Ben Suc' by Jonathan Schell and 'Say Nothing' by Patrick Radden Keefe

May 18 •

'A Fairly Honourable Defeat' by Iris Murdoch

Books on GIF turns 9; 'She poured out a little whisky and sipped it. She felt an instant of false comfort. The whisky did not know of her…

May 11

Do You Finish Every Book?

May 4

April 2025

'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë

'I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.'—Review #255

Apr 27

Reader's Choice: Novels From Independent Presses

Your options: 'The Long Form' by Kate Briggs, 'One or Two' by H.D. Everett and 'The Gloaming' by Melanie Finn

Apr 20

'Texas: The Great Theft' by Carmen Boullosa

'You'd have to be shameless to do that. Their hands are full but they keep taking more.'—Review #254

Apr 13

How Do You Organize Your Books?

Apr 6

March 2025

'On the Calculation of Volume,' Books I & II, by Solvej Balle

Two novels and a mini playlist to go with them.

Mar 30

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