https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/book-recommendations/Recent content in Book Recommendations on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usSat, 25 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/five-books-for-the-second-half/Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/five-books-for-the-second-half/<p>When I ran the bookshop, I kept a short list of titles behind the register. Not the bestsellers. Not the staff picks on the table by the door. These were the books I reached for when a certain kind of customer came in. You could spot them. They&rsquo;d been reading for decades. They didn&rsquo;t want to be told what was popular. They wanted to be told what was worth their time, which is a different question entirely when you&rsquo;re sixty-two than when you&rsquo;re thirty.</p>