This guy, Ted Gioia, wins the prize for highest ratio of vowels-to-consonants in a last name, and also has a pretty good website: The Honest Broker.
Recently he wrote about The Surprising Return of the Bookstore and thanked the CEO of Barnes & Noble for leading the way with some outside-the-box(store) thinking.
A good psychological thriller often feels like a sit-com set-up taken utterly seriously, where the circular paths of interior logic quickly lead to insidious derangement. They can also, like horror, provide a perfect vector for vengeance and schadenfreude, in which hypocrisy and small-mindedness always earn their comeuppance. And psychological thrillers can also be about exploring the enormous capacity of humans to surprise, in ways both awesome and terrible. Like the depth of human experience, the selections below hold multitudes, and you can see the breadth of the genre through the diversity of this single snapshot.
Here are 10 books I probably won't read but should if I wanted to get smarter.
From Freud to Fellini and Catholicism to Islam, it has it all.
#1 is: Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America
See what I mean?
