Reader’s Edge in 2025

From tales of families on the precipice of disaster to life histories of obscure but historically important Americans, Scott Naugle has offered incisive analyses of fiction and nonfiction. Read all his reviews here.

1. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
   Evan Friss
   
2. Stoner
   John Williams
   
3. South to America
   Imani Perry
   
4. The Shadow of the Wind
   Carlos Ruiz Zafón
   
5. Devil Is Fine
   John Vercher
   
6. The Small and the Mighty
   Sharon McMahon
   
7. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
   Patrick Bringley
   
8. Sandwich
   Catherine Newman
   
9. Crossing to Safety
   Wallace Stegner
10. History Matters
    David McCullough