Book Buzz

WCLS staff regularly select and review books for local publications. Find our latest reviews below.

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Book Buzz: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson “Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone” by Benjamin Stevenson is a darkly humorous thriller. Ernest Cunningham is the story’s ...
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Book Buzz: Out of the Sierra

Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance by Victoria Blanco “Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance” provides a window into the world of the Rarámuri, ...
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Book Buzz: Crooks

Crooks: A Novel about Crime and Family by Lou Berney  Think crime novels aren’t for you? Crooks may make you reconsider. In 1960s Vegas, Buddy Mercurio is a low-ranks mobster ...
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Book Buzz: El Dorado Drive

El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott  Oh, how the once-golden Bishop sisters have fallen. Nothing about their adult lives resembles their well-heeled childhood. Debra is drowning in medical debt, Pam’s ...
Cover image of "Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest" by Melissa Arnot Reid

Book Buzz: Enough

Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest by Melissa Arnot Reid World-renowned climber Melissa Arnot Reid shares her story of becoming the first woman to summit Mount Everest ...
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Book Buzz: Feeding Ghosts

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls This year’s winner of the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction is a breathtaking achievement of memoir, art and Chinese history ...
Cover image of "So Far Gone" by Jess Walter

Book Buzz: So Far Gone

So Far Gone by Jess Walter If the news cycle has ever given you the urge to throw your phone out the window of a moving car, you will find ...
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Book Buzz: Summerhouse

Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet, translated from the Turkish by Nicholas Glastonbury  To their neighbors on Büyükada, a sleepy island off the coast of Istanbul, pianist Şener and playwright Fehmi are ...
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Book Buzz: Friends of the Museum

Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan It’s a no good very bad day for the director of a floundering New York art museum. A PR disaster involving dubiously sourced ...
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Book Buzz: No One Can Know

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall Seattle-area author Kate Alice Marshall’s latest thriller is a grisly, twisty summertime treat for readers who like to keep guessing and can ...
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Book Buzz: Chlorine

Chlorine by Jade Song “Chlorine,” by Jade Song, is a work of literary fiction that plunges into the disquieting depths of a second-generation Chinese immigrant’s adolescence. Touching on weighty topics ...
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Book Buzz: Sounds Like Love

Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston  With a hit song on her resume, songwriter Joni Lark should be at the top of her game professionally. But the truth is, Joni ...