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His style is deceptively simple and clear, the characters drawn deftly and swiftly, his themes elemental and huge. This is a brilliant writer and I look forward to more of his work. - Joanna Daneman

Caplan, an associate professor of economics, believes that empirical proof of voter irrationality is the key to a realistic picture of democracy and, thus, how to approach and improve it. - Publishers Weekly

This intense, at times searing memoir revisits the author's rough-and-tumble Wisconsin girlhood, spent on the wrong side of the tracks in the company of her father, a Vietnam vet who began his tour as "a cocksure country boy" but returned "wild and haunted," unfit for family life and driven to extremes of philandering, alcoholism and violence. - NYT

Shteyngart's scruffy, exuberant second novel, equal parts Gogol and Borat, is immodest on every level - it's long, crude, manic and has cheap vodka on its breath - NY Times

General Smedly Butler who was one of the USA's most decorated military men. He said that he was an "enforcer for big Bizness corps" who have an insatiable hunger to take the resources of other countries while it canibalizes it's own people or uses them as political whores. - GuyinKali4kneeah (Press Esc reader)

This is a going to be a timeless children's classic read by adults the world over long after Harry Potter has faded from our memories.

Pollan is the perfect tour guide: his prose is incisive and alive, and pointed without being tendentious. In an uncommonly good year for American food writing, this is a book that stands out. -NYT

This book shows how crazy Presidential elections are and what candidates have to do to pander to get a few votes. It is also hints at how difficult it is for a good candidate to get elected. The influence of big business in American government and how the people are taken advantage of. And yet there's not a human being in it! - Press Esc Reader Taylor Bond

This is arguably the most "hyped" book in history, and if J.K. Rowling had to sneak down to the kitchen for a glass of red wine to calm her nerves while writing The Goblet of Fire (as she said she did), one wonders what assuaged her while writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. - Comment on Amazon

In the first scene of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a child of 5, sitting on a grass mat. Her grandmother is teaching her to recite the names of her ancestors, as all Somali children must learn to do. "Get it right," her grandmother warns. "They are your bloodline. . . . If you dishonor them you will be forsaken. You will be nothing. You will lead a wretched life and die alone." - Washington Post