Barbara VanDenburgh Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Barbara VanDenburgh

Hilderbrand, who has perfected the romantic beach read, returns with a summer scandal at a Nantucket hotel.

Barbara VanDenburgh

A gothic thriller about a home health aide assigned to care for 70-something Lenora, mute and in a wheelchair... She's the same Lenora accused of killing her family in a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier, and it’s clear there’s more to the tale than people know.

Barbara VanDenburgh

Straub is not so much concerned with time travel mechanics, the butterfly effect, or killing baby Hitler... Straub is concerned with love – its different forms and expressions, how it evolves over time, and how we can be better at giving and accepting it.

Barbara VanDenburgh

I am positively book drunk off of Karen Joy Fowler's new masterpiece about the family of John Wilkes Booth and what happens when someone you love grows into a monster. Painful, important lessons here about our haunted country. https://t.co/q3aIjsj2E7

Barbara VanDenburgh

The final, posthumous work by the anarchist anthropologist and author of "The Dawn of Everything" examines the societies of pirates as experiments in self-governance and democratic, progressive values.

Barbara VanDenburgh

My most vivid 9/11 memory is I had a big Charles Dickens paper due the next day and our teacher wouldn't give us an extension, so I was mainlining news all day while also trying to write a cogent argument about Hard Times. So in a way, Charles Dickens is my own personal 9/11.

Barbara VanDenburgh

Laird Hunt’s Zorrie is such a slim, quiet portrait of woman’s life, I didn’t even see the wrecking ball it took to my heart before it hit.

Barbara VanDenburgh

I tricked Changing Hands into letting me moderate a conversation with Colson Whitehead (!!!) on Sept. 16 about his new book, Harlem Shuffle. Sign up and join us! https://t.co/OGGDYMCjld

Barbara VanDenburgh

An unflinching, comprehensive, up-to-date biography of autocratic Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wreaks havoc on the global stage, digging deep to reveal the man behind the mask.

Barbara VanDenburgh

I used to fear reading Dune. Do not fear it. Fear is the mind-killer. If you could figure out muggles, Quidditch and horcruxes when reading “Harry Potter,” then you can handle “Dune.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2021/10/19/dune-what-to-know-about-frank-herbert-book-before-watching-movie-timothee-chalamet-zendaya-hbo/8445171002/