1. “13 Top Titles in Honor of National Read a Book Day.” We know what you’re thinking: “Isn’t every day read-a-book day?”


2. “5 Things I’ve Learned from Teaching Novel-Writing Classes.” Mary Kay Zuravleff knows a lot about charting the murky waters of publishing, and readers wanted to hear it.


3. Paul D. Pearlstein’s review of True Believer by Kati Marton. Pearlstein describes Marton’s book as “a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the ideals of Communism.”


4. “4 Highlights from Bouchercon.” Columnist E.A. Aymar could not wait to share the many, many things he learned at this year’s conference. There were four of them.


5. Nathan Blanchard’s review of Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer. This much-anticipated novel, writes Blanchard, “is full of beautiful writing and passages of family life that are moving, challenging, and astute…and despite a plot that strains to accommodate its breadth…it is memorable and worthwhile.”

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