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Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for May 12–18

This week, we feature an urban planner’s engaging guide to building on Mars and a suspenseful novel about eight strangers who meet one fateful day. Fiction ‘The Time Has Come’ By Will Leitch This is contemporary fiction that takes place in Athens, Georgia. The specific setting is a beloved pharmacy—Lindbergh’s—that’s reminiscent of nostalgic drugstores of…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for May 5–11

This week, we feature the gripping sports history of a U.S. team in the Berlin Olympics and a potent analysis of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) threat to our country. Geopolitics ‘The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America’ By Bill Gertz The People’s Republic of China has grown in power―economically and militarily―at an…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for April 28–May 4

This week, we feature a useful guide for educators, a witty reference to hefty words, and a vivid history of a pivotal U.S. political convention. History ‘The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History’ By Edward Achorn Aficionados of the political process will find a riveting read in this vivid account of the…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for April 21–27

This week, we feature an important biography of an undervalued president and a lucid argument for putting children’s welfare before adult desires. Biography ‘A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland’ By Troy Senik Grover Cleveland is the quintessential topic of political trivia: the only president to serve two separate…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for April 14–20

This week, we feature a concise military history tracing battles from ancient Greece to Desert Storm and a joyful guide on how to age gracefully. Lifestyle ‘The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You’ By Margareta Magnusson In her earlier work, Swedish author Margareta Magnusson introduced the…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for April 7–13

This week, we feature a dive into the science behind Sherlock Holmes’s methods and a lovely work of fiction about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love. Historical Fiction ‘If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love’ By Mary Calvi This novel takes us to Boston in the late 1870s, when Harvard…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for March 31–April 6

This week, we feature an accessible biography of an important Supreme Court justice and a riveting look at the wide, wonderful world of animals. Biology ‘An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us’ By Ed Yong How much of our world do we know? Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for March 24–30

This week, we feature Mike Pompeo’s riveting memoir and an absorbing history that establishes a post-Revolutionary War sailor as an American hero. History ‘The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War’ By Des Ekin Des Ekin has uncovered a special piece of American history…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for March 17–23

This week, we feature a vivid history of the world just before the Great War and an insightful commentary from a North Korean defector on the United States today. History ‘1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War’ By Charles Emmerson No one today has a direct, adult memory of 1913, yet it…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for March 10–16

This week, we feature a collection of Tolstoy’s most famous stories and an inspiring memoir about one man’s mission to save a friend from the Taliban. Memoir ‘Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands From the Taliban’ By Chad Robichaux The exit from Afghanistan is one of the…