Trade fiction reviewed here in 2021

The Kingmaker’s Daughter (Plantagenet & Tudor Novels #4) by Philippa Gregory—Nothing noble about the nobility in 15th century England

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene—Graham Greene’s “masterpiece” about the repression of the Mexican Church

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi—Questions science cannot answer in this brilliant new novel

Comrade Koba by Robert Littell—A biography of Joseph Stalin as told by the man himself

The Lost Diary of M by Paul Wolfe—John F. Kennedy’s lover kept a diary, and it was explosive