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Lincoln Journal Star Book Reviews – 2017
Every Saturday and Sunday morning issue of the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper includes the “The (402) 411” section. Included in that section of the paper each week are regular author profiles and book reviews, by both local reviewers and national review services. Due to the regular popularity of the titles reviewed in the paper, we’ve designed this page of the Lincoln City Libraries’ Web site as a simple listing of the books recently reviewed in the Lincoln Journal Star, with links into the library’s holdings for all the listed books which are currently in the collection. If a title below is not hotlinked, this is an indication that the library does not currently own that book, but you may consider requesting the title through the services of our Interlibrary Loan department, or suggesting that we purchase it via our on-line Suggest-a-Title form.
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last updated December 27, 2017
2017 Selections
Books reviewed in December
Fresh Complaint: Stories
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fiction – Eugenides
The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
by Scott S. Greenberger
Non-Fiction – Biography Arthur
One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning
by David Moody
Fiction – Moody (not owned by Lincoln City Libraries)
Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
Fiction – Erdrich
Montaigne in Barn Books: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
by Michael Perry
Non-Fiction – Biography Perry
The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse
by Rich Cohen
Non-Fiction – Cohen (On Order)
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story
by Debbie Tung
Non-Fiction (Graphic Novel) – Tung (available only in eBook format from the libraries)
Books reviewed in November
A Beautiful Poison
by Lydia Kang
Fiction – Heritage Kang [currently only available in the Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors]
End Game
by David Baldacci
Fiction – Baldacci
Debriefing: Collected Stories
by Susan Sontag
Fiction – Weiner [currently only available as a downloadable audio from the libraries]
Heather, the Totality
by Matthew Weiner
Fiction – Weiner
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by Laura Spinney
Non-Fiction – 614.518 Spi
We’re Going to Need More Wine
by Gabrielle Union
Non-Fiction – Biography Union
Dark Signal
by Shannon Baker
Fiction – Baker
Bonfire
by Krysten Ritter
Fiction – Ritter
Two Kinds of Truth
by Michael Connelly
Fiction – Connelly
The Midnight Line
by Lee Child
Fiction – Child
Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen
by Bill Bentley
Non-Fiction – Music 781.66 Ben
Righteous: An IQ Novel
by Joe Ide
Fiction – Ide
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
by Roz Chast
Non-Fiction – [ On Order ]
The Rooster Bar
by John Grisham
Fiction – Grisham
Chasing Phil: The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World’s Most Charming Con Man
by David Howard
Non-Fiction – Howard (available from the libraries only in eBook format)
Killing England
by Bill O’Reilly
Non-Fiction – 973.3 Ore
Books reviewed in October
Dark Signal
by Shannon Baker
Fiction – Baker
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
by Ted Genoways
Non-Fiction – 630.978 Gen
Deep Freeze
by John Sandford
Fiction – Sandford
Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship Between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
by Deanne Stillman
Non-Fiction – Stillman (not owned by Lincoln City Libraries)
The Locals
by Jonathan Dee
Fiction – Dee
Through a Glass Darkly
by Stefan Bechtel and Laurence Roy Stains
Non-Fiction – Bechtel (not owned by Lincoln City Libraries)
Robert B. Parker’s The Hangman’s Sonnet
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Fiction – Coleman
Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
by Bill Nye
Non-Fiction – Biography Nye
Great Plains Bison
by Dan O’Brien
Non-Fiction – 599.643 Obr
Books reviewed in September
A Legacy of Spies
by John LeCarre
Fiction – LeCarre
The Prometheus Man
by Scott Reardon
Fiction – Reardon
The Talented Ribkins
by Ladee Hubbard
Fiction – Hubbard (available from the libraries only in eBook format)
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Fiction – Ng
LEGO and Philosophy
by Roy T. Cook and Sondra Bacharach
Non-Fiction – 688.725 Leg
Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir
by Steve Rushkin
Non-Fiction – Biography Rushkin
What is Gone
by Amy Knox Brown
Non-Fiction – Biography Brown
Miss D & Me: Life With the Invincible Bette Davis
by Kathryn Sermak with Danielle Morton
Non-Fiction – Biography Rushkin
Camino Island
by John Grisham
Fiction – Grisham
Aging: An Apprenticeship
by Nan Narboe
Non-Fiction – 305.26 Agi
Lie to Me
by J.T. Ellison
Fiction – Ellison
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
by David S. Brown
Biography – Fitzgerald
Books reviewed in August
The Reason You’re Alive
by Matthew Quick
Fiction – Child
The Good Daughter
by Karin Slaughter
Fiction – Slaughter
No Middle Name
by Lee Child
Fiction – Child
The Misfortune of Marion Palma
by Emily Culliton
Fiction – Culliton
Firstborn
by Tosca Lee
Fiction – Lee
The Fallen
by Ace Atkins
Fiction – Atkins
American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
by David Baron
Non-Fiction – Baron [currently available from the libraries only as an audiobook through our Hoopla digital service]
Stephen Florida
by Gabe Habash
Non-Fiction – Habash [currently available from the libraries only as an ebook and/or audiobook through our Hoopla digital service]
The Late Show
by Michael Connelly
Fiction – Connelly
Read Scott C.’s review of the audiobook version of The Late Show in the June 2018 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
Books reviewed in July
Point of Contact
by Mike Maden
Fiction – Maden
Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
by Scott Miller
Non-Fiction – 940.548 Mil
Wired
by Julie Garwood
Fiction – Garwood
Read Sandy W.’s review of the audiobook version of Wired in the June 2018 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
Kings of Broken Things
by Theodore Wheeler
Fiction – Wheeler
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Dectective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
by Stephan Talty
Non-Fiction – 364.106 Tal
Enigma
by Tony Kuper
Fiction – YA PB Kuper
National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals
by Joel Sartore
Non-Fiction – 779.59 Sar
Animal Ark – Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures
by Joel Sartore (photographs), Kwame Alexander (words)
Picture Book – jP Alexander
We’ll Always Have Casablanca
by Noah Isenberg
( Currently available from the libraries only as a downloadable audiobook from Hoopla )
Vicious Circle
by C.J. Box
Fiction – Box
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone
by Mark Dawidziak
Non-Fiction – 791.457 TwiYd
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life
by Jonathan Gould
Non-Fiction – Music 781.644 Redding
Drawing the Beatles: The Love Story of the Band and the Whole World
by Rob Sheffield
Non-Fiction – Music 781.66 Beatles
The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World
by Damon Krukowski
Non-Fiction – Music 781.11 Kru
Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol
by Steve Jones
Non-Fiction – Music 781.66 Jon
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day
by Joel Selvin
Non-Fiction – Music 781.66 Rolling
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
by Kory Stamper
Non-Fiction – 413 Sta
Little White Lies
by Ace Atkins
Fiction – Atkins
Books reviewed in June
Playing House
by Laura Chapman
Heritage Chapman
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Non-Fiction – 523.01 Tys
Ill Will
by Dan Chaon
Fiction – Chaon
Odd Numbers
by Anne Holt
Fiction – Holt
Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night
by Jason Zinoman
Non-Fiction – Biography Letterman
Golden Prey
by John Sandford
Fiction – Sandford
Gunfighters: A Chronicle of Dangerous Men and Violent Deathx
by Al Cimino
Non-Fiction – j 978 Cim
The Fix
by David Baldacci
Fiction – Baldacci
Borrowed Souls
by Chelsea Mueller
Fiction – Mueller
Books reviewed in May
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
Non-Fiction – 976.6 Gra
A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty and Power Really Look Like
by Ashley Graham
Non-Fiction – Biography Graham
Adventure Cats: Living Nine Lives to the Fullest
by Laura Moss
Non-Fiction – 636.8 Mos
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis, and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
by Ben Sasse
Non-Fiction – 305.242 Sas
A Harvest of Thorns
by Corban Addison
Fiction – Addison
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
Non-Fiction – 324.8 ElaYa 2016
Dearest Mother: Letters From a Lonesome Sammy, 1915-1919, Your Loving Son, George
by Pat O’Neill
Non-Fiction – O’Neill (not owned by Lincoln City Libraries)
The Spoils
by Casey Pycior
Fiction – Pycior
What You Break
by Reed Farrell Coleman
Fiction – Coleman
Adulthood for Beginners: All the Life Secrets Nobody Bothered to Tell You
by Andy Boyle
Non-Fiction – Heritage 817 Boy
Books reviewed in April
Rock, Tree, Bird
by Twyla Hansen
Non-Fiction – 811 Han
Besieged
by A.J. Tata
Fiction – Tata (not owned by Lincoln City Libraries)
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
by David G. McCullough
Non-Fiction – 973 McC
Nowhere Man
by Greg Hurwitz
Fiction – Hurwitz
Wild Nights: How Taming Sheep Created Our Restless World
by Benjamin Reiss
Non-Fiction – 612.821 Rei
Better Living Through Criticism
by A.O. Scott
Non-Fiction – 801.95 Sco
Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway’s Adventures as a WWII Correspondent
by Terry Mort
Non-Fiction – Biography Hemingway
The Lost Book of the Grail
by Charlie Lovett
Fiction – Lovett
The Sex Effect
by Ross Benes
Non-Fiction – Benes
Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology
edited by Daniel A. Simon
Non-Fiction – 811.08 Neb
Read Scott C.’s review of Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology in the April 2017 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
August Snow
by Stephen Mack Jones
Fiction – Jones
Conviction
by Julia Dahl
Fiction – Dahl
Books reviewed in March
Gunmetal Gray
by Mark Greaney
Fiction – Greaney
The Spoils
by Casey Pycior
Fiction – Pycior
Robert B. Parker’s Revelation
by Robert Knott
Fiction – Knott
The Prisoner
by Alex Berenson
Fiction – Berenson
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
by Michael Sims
Non-Fiction – Biography Doyle
Books reviewed in February
The Old Man
by Thomas Perry
Fiction – Perry
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
by Kyo MacLear
Non-Fiction – Biography MacLear
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
by Douglas J. Preston
Non-Fiction – 972.85 Pre
The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
by Rory Stewart
Non-Fiction – 914.2 Ste
Books reviewed in January
Rasputin: Faith, Power and the Twilight of the Romanovs
by Douglas Smith
Non-Fiction – Biography Rasputin
Burning Bright
by Nicholas Petrie
Fiction – Petrie
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars in the American West
by Peter Cozzens
Non-Fiction – 970.1 Coz
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
by Ross King
Non-Fiction – Biography Monet
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