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Chemistry, by Weike Wang

Chemistry, by Weike Wang

June 15, 2017 By bex Leave a Comment

“What do you do with a sick chemist? Helium. Or curium. Or barium.” What do chemistry and literature have in common? Both help us make sense of the world. In her debut novel, Weike Wang turns chemistry into alchemy with a blend of concise writing, Chinese wisdom, and unexpected humor. Wang leaves her protagonist, a […]


S., by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

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Mr. G, by Alan Lightman

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Among the Ten Thousand Things, by Julia Pierpont

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The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, by Joanna Cannon

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Our Endless Numbered Days, by Claire Fuller

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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, by Carrie Brownstein

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The Nix, by Nathan Hill

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The Swans of Fifth Avenue, by Melanie Benjamin

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Disgruntled, by Asali Solomon

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We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion

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Tiny, Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed

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The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, by Elizabeth Silver

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Museum of Extraordinary Things, by Alice Hoffman

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Difficult Women, by Roxane Gay

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On Leave, by Daniel Anselme

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The Girl Before, by JP Delaney

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Stone Mattress, by Margaret Atwood

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Uprooted, by Naomi Novik

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Goat Song, by Brad Kessler

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The Primates of Park Avenue, by Wednesday Martin

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Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett

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The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison

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Eggshells, by Caitriona Lally

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Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vaye Watkins

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The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy

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Giving up the Ghost, by Hillary Mantel

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Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson

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On Immunity: An Inoculation, by Eula Biss

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Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, by Matthew Dicks

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The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt

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Bex Book List: Great Reads in 2016

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Swing Time, by Zadie Smith

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American Innovations, by Rivka Galchen

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Nickle and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Woke Up Lonely, by Fiona Maazel

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All The Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders

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Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demnick

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A bad Character, by Deepti Kapoor

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All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

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Swimming Lessons, by Claire Fuller

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Betsy-Tacy series, by Maud Heart Lovelace

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Pantopticon, by Jenni Fagan

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The Red Parts, by Maggie Nelson

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Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill

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Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff

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Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Almost Famous Women, by Megan Mayhew Bergman

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The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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Rabbit Cake, by Annie Hartnett

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My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout

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A Little life, by Hanya Yanagihara

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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M., by Sam Wasson

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Women in the Wild: "Breaking Wild," and "Marrow Island"

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On Such a Full sea, by Chang Rae-Lee

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The Shock of the Fall, by Nathan Filer

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Chemistry, by Weike Wang

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo

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Euphoria, by Lily King

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Hausfrau, by Jill Alexander Essbaum

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The Borrowers, by Mary Norton

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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, by Andrew Sean Greer

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Unbecoming, by Rebecca Scherm

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West with the Night, by Beryl Markham

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My Real Children, by Jo Walton

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Descent, by Tim Johnston

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The Just City, by Jo Walton

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Days of Awe, by Lauren Fox

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Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger

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Touch, by Claire North

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Lily and the Octopus, by Stephen Rowley

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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman

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Family Life, by Akhil Sharma

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte

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The Bees, by Laline Paull

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The Sport of Kings, by C.E. Morgan

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Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell

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Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

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Evicted, by Matthew Desmond

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The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson

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The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas

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California, by Edan Lepucki

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Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain

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The Golem and the Jinni, by Helen Wecker

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The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden

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Guantanamo Diary, by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

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All-of-a-Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor

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My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem

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The Bully Pulpit, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The Blue Girl, by Laurie Foos

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The Art of Asking, by Amanda Palmer

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Slade House, by David Mitchell

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The History of Wolves, by Emily Fridlund

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Last Goodnight, by Howard Blum

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Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren

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Between You & Me, by Mary Norris

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The Fine Art of Fucking Up, by Cate Dicharry

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Strangers in Their Own land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild

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All Our Names, by Dinaw Mengestu

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New Reviews

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman

April 1, 2017 By bex Leave a Comment

Fine is what we say when someone asks how we are. Fine says just enough and nothing at all. Debut novelist Gail Honeyman introduces a character who is quirky, possibly delusional, and absolutely, positively, not fine. Honeyman’s light touch makes readers laugh while exploring the natures of empathy and love and the meaning of being […]

Eggshells, by Caitriona Lally

Eggshells, by Caitriona Lally

March 15, 2017 By bex Leave a Comment

Vivian is wonderfully, extraordinarily, odd. She keeps her great aunt’s ashes in a box rather than an urn because “death in a box is more real than death in a jar.” She doesn’t like verbs because they expect too much, and prefers examples to instances. Vivian (she prefers viv, a palindrome) wants a friend named […]

Rabbit Cake, by Annie Hartnett

Rabbit Cake, by Annie Hartnett

March 7, 2017 By bex Leave a Comment

Elvis Babbit’s mother makes rabbit cakes. No, that’s not an euphemism for a vegetarian carrot cake, and no, they do not in any way resemble the smiling, cloud-frosted concoctions for sale at an Easter bake sale. They bake in a three dimensional mold and, when frosted properly, resemble a living rabbit (Elvis’s mother even fills […]

Bookish Dispatches

Summer Reads 2017

Summer Reads 2017

July 6, 2017 By bex Leave a Comment

  I recently had the great pleasure of talking books and summer reading recommendations with Sheila Burns, the co-owner of Bloomsbury Books, and Geoffrey Riley on the Jefferson Exchange.   https://cpa.ds.npr.org/ksor/audio/2017/07/jefferson_exchange_2017_july_05_hr2_b.mp3   I could easily spend all day talking about books, it really is one of my favorite parts of my job. What kinds of […]

Poems to Celebrate National Poetry Month

Poems to Celebrate National Poetry Month

April 15, 2017 By bex Leave a Comment

I wrote a lot of angst-filled poetry as a teenager, badly rhymed and full of mixed metaphors and cliches. My career as a poet was short lived; I read poetry, but cannot claim its creation as my own. For a long time I thought poetry had to sound and look and feel a certain way. […]

Q&A with Annie Hartnett

Q&A with Annie Hartnett

March 7, 2017 By bex Leave a Comment

Two of your characters suffer from sleepwalking. Are you, or is anyone close to you, a sleepwalker? I sleepwalked only once, in college after I’d been up working on a paper for several nights in a row. I went to bed, but I was worried about a friend of mine who’d gone out that night— […]

About Bex Writes

I am a writer and indie bookseller with a journalism degree from Southern Oregon University and a voracious appetite for books. I don't view reading as an escape as much as an extension of reality. Books help me make sense of the world and find my place there. Read More…

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