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Lincoln Journal Star Book Reviews – 2018
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.
Note: Although the Lincoln Journal Star is reviewing fewer books in the print edition of the paper, they are including many more syndicated book reviews (from outside sources) on their website. This index on BookGuide is only to the reviews that have appeared in the print edition of the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper.
— Book by a Nebraska author
last updated December 30, 2018
2018 Selections
Books reviewed in December
The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End
by Gary Pomerantz
Non-Fiction – Pomerantz [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries]
Buseyisms: Gary Busey’s Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
by Gary Busey
Biography Busey
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir: The Korean War’s Greatest Battle
by Hampton Sides
Non-Fiction – 951.904 Sid
The Middleman
by Olen Steinhauser
Fiction – Steinhauser
Blood and Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
by Paul Collins
Non-Fiction – 364.152 Col
Books reviewed in November
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
by Martin Dugard and Bill O’Reilly
Non-Fiction – [940.53 Ore]
The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino: A Story of Corruption, Scandal and the Big Business of College Basketball
by Michael Sokolove
Non-Fiction – Biography Pitino
The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
by Jonathan Franzen
Non-Fiction – 814 Fra
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
by Martin Dugard and Bill O’Reilly
Non-Fiction – [973.3 Ore]
Books reviewed in October
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy
by Paige Williams
Non-Fiction – 560.75 Wil
All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung
Non-Fiction – Biography Chung
Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
by John Kaag
Non-Fiction – [libraries own this only in E-book and E-audio versions]
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by Tom Wright and Bradley Hoper
Non-Fiction – Biography Low
Books reviewed in September
Sunrise Highway
by Peter Blauner
Fiction – Blauner
Dream Country
by Shannon Gibney
Fiction – YA Gibney
Boomer1
by Daniel Torday
Fiction – Torday
Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World
by Mike Stanton
Non-Fiction – Biography Marciano
Books reviewed in August
The Last Time I Lied
by Riley Sager
Fiction – Sager
The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer’s Search for Meaning in the Great Depression
by Ben Montgomery
Non-Fiction – Montgomery [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries]
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
by Keith O’Brien
Non-Fiction – 629.13 Obr
Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend and the Last Days of a Mountain-Top Honky Tonk
by John Lingan
Non-Fiction – Music 781.642 Lin
A Carnival of Losses: Notes on Nearing Ninety
by Donald Hall
Non-Fiction – Atkins [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries]
Books reviewed in July
The Sinners
by Ace Atkins
Fiction – Atkins
The Last Cruise
by Kate Christensen
Fiction – Christensen
Lincoln’s Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
by John Bicknell
Non-Fiction – 323.8 EleYb 1856
House Witness
by Mike Lawson
Fiction – Lawson
The President is Missing
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Fiction – Clinton
Courage in a White Coat
by Mary Schwaner
Non-Fiction – Biography Chambers
The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
by Anne R. Keene
Non-Fiction – Keene (currently available only as an eBook or e-audiobook)
The Killing Habit
by Mark Billingham
Fiction – Billingham
Books reviewed in June
The Hush
by John Hart
Fiction – Hart
Good Trouble: Stories
by Joseph O’Neill
Fiction – O’Neill
Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines
by Nick Nolte
Non-Fiction – Biography Nolte
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
by Lydia Kang
Non-Fiction – 615.856 Kan
Robert B. Parker’s Old Black Magic
by Ace Atkins
Fiction – Atkins
The Only Story
by Julian Barnes
Fiction – Barnes
Books reviewed in May
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsesssion, and the National History Heist of the Century
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Non-Fiction – 364.16 Joh
Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story
by Chris Nashawaty
Non-Fiction – 791.43 Nas
The Deceivers
by Alex Berenson
Fiction – Berenson
The Fallen
by David Baldacci
Fiction – Baldacci
The Woman in the Moon
by Marjorie Saiser
Non-Fiction – Heritage 811 Sai
Twisted Prey
by John Sandford
Fiction – Sandford
Voices From the Plains: A Literary Anthology
by the members of The Nebraska Writers Guild
Non-Fiction – 810.098 Voi
Books reviewed in April
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
by Michael Benson
Non-Fiction – 791.43 Ben
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
by Edward J. Larson
Non-Fiction – 919.8 Lar
A Guide to More Nebraska Authors
edited by Gerry Cox and Charlene Neely
Non-Fiction – 810.978 Cox
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon
by Robert Kurson
Non-Fiction – 629.45 Kur
Great Plains Literature
edited by Linda Ray Pratt
Non-Fiction – 810.9 Pra
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
by Kathryn Harkup
Non-Fiction – Harkup [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries]
The Balcony
by Jane Delury
Fiction – Delury
Books reviewed in March
The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
by Brentley Hargrove
Non-Fiction – Biography Samaras
The Monk of Mokha
by Dave Eggers
Non-Fiction – Biography Alkhanshali
A Place Called Waco: A Survivor’s Story
by David Thibodeau
Non-Fiction – 299 Thi
Down the River Unto the Sea
by Walter Mosley
Fiction – Mosley
Books reviewed in February
Poison
by John Lescroart
Fiction – Lescroart
Feel Free: Essays
by Zadie Smith
Non-Fiction – 824 Smi
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China
by Kevin Peraino
Non-Fiction – Peraino [Not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries]
The Winter Station
by Jodi Shields
Fiction – Shields
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s
by Joseph Jebelli
Non-Fiction – 616.8 Jeb
Hell Bent: An Orphan X Novel
by Gregg Hurwitz
Fiction – Hurwitz
Books reviewed in January
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family
by Nguyen Qui Duc [library owns original 1994 edition of this newly reprinted title]
Non-Fiction – 959.704 Ngu
150@150 Nebraska’s Landmark Buildings at the State’s Sesquicentennial
by Jeff Barnes
Non-Fiction – 978.2 Bar
The Black Painting
by Neil Olson
Fiction – Olson
In the Shadows of Victory II: America’s Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II
by Thomas D. Phillips
Non-Fiction – Heritage 355.009 Phi
The Chalk Man
by C.J. Tudor
Fiction – Tudor
Robicheaux
by James Lee Burke
Fiction – Burke
Hank and Jim: The 50-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
by Scott Eyman
Non-Fiction – 791.43 Eym
Read Becky W.C.’s review of Hank and Jim in the August 2018 Staff Recommendations here on BookGuide
A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux
by Amos Bad Heart Bull
Non-Fiction – SOS 970.3 OglyB (library owns original 1967 — newspaper review was of 50th anniversary edition)
The Wanted
by Robert Crais
Fiction – Crais
A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam Memorial
by James Reston Jr.
Non-Fiction – Reston (libraries only have this title as an eBook through Hoopla)
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