Top 10 books about cheating
From illicit James Salter to category-defying Jeanette Winterson, here are the best contemporary works about romantic infidelity
Why do we keep coming back to the adultery novel? What is it about infidelity that bears retelling...
Reader Review: “Buses Are a Comin'”
by Juliana: Literally and metaphorically, Charles Person describes the road to and his actual involvement in the protest action of May 1961 called Freedom Riders. He manages to render the clear chronology and facts...
Reader Review: “When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky”
by Margaret Simmons: If leaping into a pool on horseback is what you do then when you can't do it your job possibilities are less shining than you might like. But "....had never been...
Reader Review: “Dinosaurs”
by Tony C. (Parkville, MD): "Dinosaurs" by Lydia Millett should fire its PR team because it makes the story sound aimless, yet it hooked me immediately. A gentleman walks from New York to Phoenix...
Reader Review: “All the Little Bird-Hearts”
by Gloria M: What could be more intriguing than a new debut novel about an autistic woman that is written by an author who has studied autism on a graduate level and is actually...
Reader Review: “A Rule Against Murder”
by Cathryn Conroy (Gaithersburg, Maryland): And Louise Penny does it again! This is the fourth in the (now) 18-book series of murder mysteries featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and the delightful Canadian town of...
Reader Review: “The Christie Affair”
by Techeditor (Romeo, Michigan): I started THE CHRISTIE AFFAIR with the wrong expectation. I expected this to be a reimagining of Agatha Christie's 11 days when she went missing. While that's true, THE CHRISTIE...
Reader Review: “One’s Company”
by Joy: I too grew up watching Three's Company and was very interested in the concept of the book. I am familiar with issues of depression, drugs & mood swings with family history of...
Reader Review: “After Annie”
by She Treads Softly: After Annie by Anna Quindlen is an outstanding breathtaking and heartbreaking depiction of a family dealing with the untimely death of a wife and mother over the span of a...
Reader Review: “Murder in Montparnasse”
by NGuillon (france): Let me first say that I do not read Phryne Fisher mysteries as crime novels but as entertaining stories that make me smile (and admire Phryne of course). Here the different...
