Books

Author Jon Waterman opens readers to sharing his appreciation and the need to safeguard a world that grants us so many gifts.

The sports romance genre is seeing a new trend thanks in part to the popularity of the docuseries “Drive to Survive.”

Fueled by FOMO and inspired by social media, a new generation explores an old craft.

While the first two editions cover Russell’s life before he reached Alaska, the next installment will focus on his year living in a rural village.

Their lists include poetry, graphic art, plus books about fishing, nature and history.

New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time.

The book is the culmination of more than two decades of research and also examines the role that the art form plays in contemporary Tlingit society.

Holly Miowak Guise’s book details that Alaska Natives, far from being passive participants in a war brought to them, actively protected their lands and cultures — leading to strengthened tribal connections and greater equality.

The book is the final novel in Fairbanks author Kris Farmen’s “Seasons of Want and Plenty” trilogy.

M Jackson, a geographer and glaciologist who has written two nonfiction books, applies her extensive knowledge to a new genre.

This year was a boon for whodunit readers, with great books by Donna Leon, Richard Osman, Louise Penny and more.

Fairbanks author David Marusek covers familiar themes with familiar characters, but brings readers to a different conclusion this time.

From the streets of Philadelphia to the high seas, these novels brought history to life in vivid detail.

The book has plenty of the hallmarks of Straley’s crime novels, but a new protagonist gives “Big Breath In” a different perspective.

Carlstrom, who lived near Fairbanks for nearly two decades, completed the book in part as a gift for her grandchildren.

This wonderful children’s book invites readers of all ages and from every corner of the planet into the heart of a culture that arose in isolation from nearly all of the rest of the world.

In “Absent Here,” Bret Shepard, who grew up in North Slope villages including Atqasuk and Browerville, examines themes like absence and desire in a collection infused with landscape imagery.

A Montgomery County committee caused an outcry after labelling “Colonization and the Wampanoag story,” a children’s Native American history book, as fiction.

An anthropologist by training, an outdoors guide by profession, and a writer by nature and compulsion, Engelhard has wandered across the varied landscapes of Alaska for decades.

The New York Times and ProPublica now say Grisham went too far in his use of their reporting on a murder case in Texas, and they want changes made to the book.

Starbard, who is Tlingit/Dena’ina Athabascan, has worked as a playwright, magazine editor and Emmy-nominated TV writer.

The science writer returned to the 800-mile Alaska Pipeline corridor, telling his own story within the structure of a time travel through the change that’s facing Alaska

Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson praised the South Korean writer’s “physical empathy for the vulnerable, often female lives” of her characters.