KC Davis is a counselor and speaker who lives in Houston. In her book, How to Keep House While Drowning, Davis outlines practical and compassionate instructions on how to keep life running when you feel like you are flailing.

For someone who's been the subject of more than a dozen books, there's not a whole not that's definitely known about the blues musician Robert Johnson.

Dominicana is a novel I cannot stop thinking about.

You may not think that an Episcopal priest is the most likely candidate to review a book on theoretical physics by someone who describes himself as "serenely atheist," but Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time, which I just read for the first time this year, has quickly become one of my favorites.

Earlier this year I read Anthony Doerr's novel All the Light We Cannot See. I had a copy of it for years and now, I wish I had read it sooner.

I wanted to bring a backlist selection that I only recently discovered. That is The Long And Faraway Gone by Lou Berney.

This week, avid reader and daughter in law of Jim McKeown, Ashley McKeown, brings to her Likely Stories debut, Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel 'We Need to Talk about Kevin."

A nonfiction deep dive into one of America's most intriguing cities is the book I am bringing to you today. That is The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Missisippi by Richard Grant.

Today I am recommending my favorite book of last year, Love and Saffron by Kim Fay. I describe is as if Ruth Reichl, food writer for the NYT, and Laurie Colwin, my favorite food memoir writer wrote Eighty Four Charing Cross and I loved everything about it

“The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson was at the top of my summer reading list this year.Wilson won the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for this novel, which is her first fiction work. Her previous, non-fiction writings have also received numerous awards.