Book Reviews, Table of Contents

Richard Seltzer
3 min readJul 11, 2022
The Librarian (Wolfgang Lazius) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, ca. 1562.

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

Young Jane Young

Levitation: Five Stories

Molloy

KGB Banker

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

The Long View: Essays, Poems, Stories by Susan Ford Wiltshire

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabreille Zevin

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz

Or What You Will by Jo Walton

The Golden Calf by Ilf and Petrov

The Authoress of the Odyssey by Samuel Butler

Mathilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley

Hallowed Be Thy Name: The Name-Glorifying Dispute in the Russian Orthodox Church and on Mt. Athos by Tom Dykstra

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

Genesis by Robert Alter

Eleanor of Aquitaine: a Biography by Marion Mead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarzcuk

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

The Bird King by C. Willow Wilson

Flights by Olga Tokarzcuk

Wakers by Orson Scott Card

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Fear Itself by Bette Bono

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

Coulrophobia and Fata Morgana by Jacob M. Appel

The Genius of Paul: a Study in History by Samuel Sandmel

Prison Sex by Gay Walley

Mark, Canonizer of Paul by Tom Dykstra

History of the Church by Eusebius

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Diary of a Russian Lieutenant in the Russo-Chinese War by A. K. Zinevich

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

Penelope Returning by Susan Ford Wiltshire

Artscapes by Lee Woodman

Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The Last Shadow by Orson Scott Card

Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicholson

The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

To Gether Tales by Richard Seltzer (me)

Shakespeare’s Twin Sister by Richard Seltzer (me)

Nevermind by Richard Seltzer (me)

Breeze by Richard Seltzer (me)

Beyond the 4th Door by Richard Seltzer (me)

Parallel Lives by Richard Seltzer (me)

Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan

Love’s Journey Home by Gabi Coatsworth

Voss by Patrick White

In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey

Early Human History Rewritten, Review of The Horse, the Wheel and Language by David Anthony

The Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything Isn’t 42, Review of The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch (2012)

The Myth of the Bicameral Mind, A review of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (1976 and 1990)

The History by Herodotus

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

The Last Shadow by Orson Scott Card

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Some Remarks, a collection of essays by Neal Stephenson

Artscapes, Poetry Collection by Lee Woodman

Penelope Returning, Poetry Collection by Susan Ford Wilshire

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

Diary of a Russian Lieutenant in the Russo-Chinese War by A. K. Zinevich

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

History of the Church by Eusebius

Mark, Canonizer of Paul by Tom Dykstra

The Messiah of Stockholm

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Tamerlane by Poe: Inspiration for Young Writers

Austerlitz

Lifescapes

Helgoland

Elsewhere

Tao Te Ching

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Lifelode

Neighbors and Other Stories

Among Others

The Tragedy of Arthur

Soumission

Thessaly: The Just City

The Music Shop

Thessaly: The Philosopher Kings

First Buddhist Women: Poems and Stories of Awakening

Klara and the Sun

The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism

The Penelopiad

Ramayana

Hinduism

Miss Benson’s Beetle

Jana Bibi’s Excellent Adventures (Jana Bibi Adventures #1)

Love Potion Number 10 (Jana Bibi Adventures #2)

Emeralds Included: Jana Bibi Adventures #3

Isaac Newton

Fall, or Dodge in Hell

Honey and Salt

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Lives of Girls and Women

Who Do You Think You Are?

Runaway

A Single Rose

Mindscapes

The Writer’s Cats

The Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses 2021

The Love of a Good Woman

1066 And All That

Mrs. Craddock

Dance of the Happy Shades

Homescapes

One Good Turn

Circe

Case Histories

When Will There Be Good News?

Les Indes Noires

Hamnet

Started Early, Took My Dog

Big Sky

The Overstory

Open AI Review of Why Knot?

A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Over by Gabi Coatsworth

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Richard Seltzer

His recent books include Echoes from the Attic, Grandad Jokes, Lizard of Oz, Shakespeare'sTwin Sister, To Gether Tales. and Parallel Lives, seltzerbooks.com