Archive - Books on GIF

Reader's Choice: Esoteric and Extremely Niche

Your options: 'The Places of Marguerite Duras' by Marguerite Duras with Michelle Porte, 'The Secret History of Kate Bush' by Fred Vermorel and 'Bento's…

Jul 13

'Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland' by Patrick Radden Keefe

'The last words that his mother had said to him were "Watch the children until I come back."'—Review #260

Jul 6

June 2025

Used Bookstores Worth Visiting

From Boston to San Diego, here are some of my favorites. What are yours?

Jun 29 •

'The Möbius Book' by Catherine Lacey

'There's nothing wrong with inventing a story to explain something real to yourself.' —Review #259

Jun 22

Reader's Choice: Books Set in Outer Space

Your options: 'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey, 'Foundation' by Isaac Asimov and 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons

Jun 15

'One or Two' by H.D. Everett

'Her aspirations must of necessity be ridiculous, her very woes become comic, and all because of that fifty or sixty pounds of unnecessary…

Jun 8

What books are you diving into this summer?

Jun 1

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

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