Pop Goes Fiction

Reading for the fun of it!
Reviews of popular fiction that I've read and enjoyed recently, along with read-alikes and suggestions for additional titles like-minded readers might enjoy.

Sunday, December 7, 2025

Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino

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Margo and her husband, Ian, have been looking for the perfect home in the Washington D.C. area for over a year and a half and have been outb...

Saturday, December 6, 2025

The Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman

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It's a Tuesday at Aunt Orsa's, the one fine dining restaurant in a small midwestern college town. Usually Tuesday evening is one of ...

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

59 Minutes by Holly Seddon

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It's pandemonium in London and its environs when an alert says a nuclear missile will hit the area in 59 minutes. Carrie is on her way h...

Friday, November 14, 2025

The Widow by John Grisham

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All lawyer Simon Latch can see is dollar signs when eighty-five-year-old Eleanor Barnett comes to his office asking if he'll draft a new...

Monday, November 3, 2025

The Dentist by Tim Sullivan

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DS George Cross is extremely successful at his job. Having autism allows him to see things others don't, in addition to having a thoroug...

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

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Martha Thornhill comes back to her hometown of Oxford to take a job as the senior editor of the Clarendon English Dictionary (think OED). Sh...

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Menu of Happiness by Hisashi Kashiwai

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In this third volume of the Kamogawa Food Detective Series, people again come to Kyoto to have chef Nagare and his daughter Koishi make a me...

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Lora Bruggeman: I'm a librarian with a background in Reader's Advisory who left librarianship for domestic...uh...bliss.From 1992-2003 I worked at the Downers Grove (IL) Public Library. I served on YALSA's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (1998-2000, chair 2000) and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (2001-2003, chair 2002). I wrote the article "Zap! Woosh! Kerplow! Build High Quality Graphic Novel Collections With Impact" (School Library Journal, January 1997). I work at the Wheaton Public Library.

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