Archive for January, 2012

The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer

He knew the room was designed to hold secrets. Big secrets.


Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.


Stealing Mona Lisa by Carson Morton

The sight of the horse-drawn hearse and its macabre attendants, rising like a specter out of a vaporous late-morning mist, stopped Roger Hargreaves dead in his tracks.


The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin

I will begin my story in the conventional way, with my ancestry.


Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

His personality was reflected in the products he created. Just as the core of Apple’s philosophy, from the original Macintosh in 1984 to the iPad a generation later, was the end-to-end integration of hardware and software, so too was it the case with Steve Jobs: His passions, perfectionism, demons, desires, artistry, devilry and obsession for control were integrally connected to his approach to business and the products that resulted.