Book Recommendations

September 2026 Book Recommendations

A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.

Book of the Week for August 31, 2026

Dear, Dear Livy by Adrien Stratenburg and Laura Nelson Baker

A biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens; Mark Twain’s wife.

Book of the Week for August 24, 2026

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

An impoverished student commits two murders and confesses.

Book of the Week for August 17, 2026

Perle: My Story by Perle Mesta

Socialite; activist; and Harry Truman’s Ambassador to Luxembourg, she was the Hostess with the Mostest.

Book of the Week for August 07, 2026

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Two boys form an intense friendship at a New England boarding school.

Book of the Week for August 03, 2026

The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway

A serviceman in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps of WW I comes of age.

August 2026 Book Recommendations

A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.

Book of the Week for July 27, 2026

Old Friends by Tracy Kidder

Two men find end-of-life companionship in a California nursing home; non-fiction.

Book of the Week for July 13, 2026

Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen

1920s America; stories about Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and other forgotten events.

Book of the Week for July 06, 2026

Destiny Of The Republic by Candace Millard

After the assassination attempt on President James Garfield, his physician botches the recovery.

July 2026 Book Recommendations

A curated list of books and literary classics for your reading pleasure by David Bruce Smith Publications.

Book of the Week for June 29, 2026

Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult

A mother confronts the medical system over her daughter’s brittle bone disease.