Top 2024 Top 10

As of this writing, I have read 109 books this year – my most ever in a single calendar year!  Of those 109, I’ve had the misfortune of picking only 10 standouts. Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan Claire Keegan’s quiet novel about a coal merchant’s courageous actions affected me on a deep level.…

Dodgers

Bill Beverly’s debut novel Dodgers follows four teens as they ride from Los Angeles to suburban Wisconsin to carry out a hit on a judge in an upcoming drug case.  Led by East, a fifteen-year old lookout for a drug dealer, who’s joined by his younger brother Ty, and two others, Michael and Walter, as…