The Non-Accidental Reader, 2025: Untried authors, meh. Favorite authors, 5 star!

At the start of the year, I set out to read authors who were new to me, rather than falling back on my standard bearers. That does not mean you won’t see a title or two from John Irving, Jodi Picoult, or some of my other all-time favorites, but this year’s list introduced many new …

The Non-Accidental Reader: Books I Read in 2023

I grew up on words. My family were/are avid crossword puzzlers and Scrabble was a mainstay in our household; I was playing against my brothers’ college friends when I was 8. To be fair, I can’t balance a checkbook, but I was raised on words. So it should come as no surprise that I was …