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A Story Deepened by a Poetic SensibilityA Legacy of Mixed HeritageSeeing Personal History Through the Prisms of War and ErasureThe...
A Story Deepened by a Poetic SensibilityA Legacy of Mixed HeritageSeeing Personal History Through the Prisms of War and ErasureThe...
1979 Bantam edition ▬ᴥ▬ I first read Sophie’s Choice in a Bantam paperback 1979 edition. Sophies's Choice is not a...
This month, we're taking some time to celebrate women; the female characters in our favorite books, and the women who...
Bridge, by Robert Thomas “Welcome to the prayer-strewn pews of my brain,” Alice, the narrator of Bridge tells us, and...
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: March 3, 2015 ISBN 978-0-307-27103-7 It's the dusk of Arthurian...
The Standard GrandJay Baron NicorvoSt. Martin's PressRelease Date: April 24, 2017ISBN 978-1-25010-894-4 It's rare when an author is able to...
Exit West Mohsin Hamid Riverhead Books Release Date: March 7, 2017 ISBN 978-0-7352-1217-6 Immigration is a hot burner issue right...
The WanderersMeg HowreyG. P. Putnam's SonsRelease Date: March 14, 2017ISBN 978-0-3995-7473-4 This book...wow. I read a lot of books; a...
Universal HarvesterJohn DarnielleFerrar, Straus and GirouxRelease Date: February 7, 2017ISBN 978-0-37428-210-3 Full disclosure: I grew up in Iowa, so John...
The WonderEmma DonoghueLittle, Brown and CompanyRelease Date: September 20, 2016ISBN 978-0-316-39387-4 It's 1859, and English nurse Lib Wright has been...
Author Nell Zink NicotineNell ZinkEcco PublishingRelease Date: October 6, 2016ISBN 978-0-06-244170-6 I get it. Not all books are going to...
The Little Red ChairsEdna O'BrienLittle, Brown and CompanyRelease Date: March 29, 2016ISBN 978-0-316-37823-9 On April 6, 1992, a siege began...
Rare Objects Kathleen Tessaro Harper Release Date: April 12, 2016 ISBN 978-0-0623-5754-0 In 2013, Kathleen Tessaro's novel, The Perfume Collector,...
Vinegar Girl (Hogarth Shakespeare) The Taming of the Shrew Retold Anne Tyler Hogarth Release Date: June 21, 2016 ISBN...
Photo by Jean Malek Hag-Seed (Hogarth Shakespeare) Margaret Atwood Hogarth Release Date: October 11, 2016 ISBN 978-0-8041-4129-1 In October of...
LaRose Louise Erdrich Harper Release Date: May 10, 2016 ISBN 978-0-06-227702-2 Last year, Louise Erdrich was awarded the Library of...
Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: May 24, 2016 ISBN 978-11-0187-594-0 Sweetbitter, the debut novel from newcomer Stephanie...
Who Do You Love: Stories, by Jean Thompson May is #ShortStoryMonth, and this is third in a series of LitStackRecs...
The Past Tessa Hadley Harper Release Date: January 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-06-227041-2 As I read Tessa Hadley's newest novel, The...
Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox This classic of literary fiction, first published in 1970, is also a classic example of...
Stoner, by John Williams John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only 2,000 copies, but since its...
Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson Random House Release Date: August 18, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8129-9747-7 While this flash review was being written,...
The Hummingbird Stephen P. Kiernan William Morrow Release Date: September 8, 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-236954-3 Deborah Birch, the heroine of Stephen...
Church of Marvels Leslie Parry Ecco Release Date: May 5, 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-236755-6 In 1895, in New York City, Sylvan,...
Wonder Woman Unbound The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine Tim Hanley College level English classes are one...
Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill With the release of Jenny Offill’s acclaimed second novel, there have been comparisons to...
The Bookseller Cynthia Swanson HarperCollins Publishers Release Date: March 3, 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-233300-1 Thirty-eight year old Kitty Miller is pretty...
A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson Little, Brown and Company Release Date: May 5, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-17653-8 According to her...
The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles Bowles is one of my favorite writers, stark yet rich; prose with a darkness so...
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin's 2009 novel, which won that year's Costa Award, is a lovely and haunting story set...
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, Thunderstruck, a grieving mother instructs...
Three authors linked by the British tradition of going by foot and writing about it. A Time of Gifts: On...
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph...
The Bone Clocks David Mitchell Random House Release Date: September 2, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4000-6567-7 Back in 2012 when I read...
Us David Nicholls HarperCollins Publishers Release Date: October 28, 2014 ISBN 978-0-06-236558-3 Douglas Petersen is fifty-four years old, a biochemist...
Leaving Time Jodi Picoult Ballantine Books Release Date: October 14, 2014 ISBN 978-0-345-54492-6 Jodi Picoult is one of our greatest...
The Laughing Monsters Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: November 4, 2014 978-0-374-28059-8 If you feel a bit...
Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng The Penguin Press Release Date: June 26, 2014 ISBN 978-1-59420-571-2 It absolutely slays...
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: September 24, 2013 ISBN 978-0-374-21491-3 I love it...
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner Release Date: May 6, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4767-4658-6 In 1934, six-year -old...
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: September 9, 2014 ISBN 978-0-385-35330-4 The world has come...
Sweetness #9 Stephan Eirik Clark Little, Brown and Company Release Date: August 19, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-27875-1 Talk about the into...
10:04 Ben Lerner Faber and Faber Release Date: September 2, 2014 ISBN 978-0-86547-810-7 It's not very often that I recommend...
The Paying Guests Sarah Waters Riverhead Books Release Date: September 16, 2014 ISBN 978-1-59463-311-9 Sarah Waters is known for her...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot David Shafer Little, Brown and Company Release Date: August 5, 2014 Awfully clever of David Shafer to...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel Alfred A. Knopf Publication Date: August...
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club Genevieve Valentine Atria Books Release Date: June 3, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4767-3908-3 "The Twelve Dancing...
Life After Life Kate Atkinson Little, Brown and Company Release Date: March 14, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-17648-4 On a cold, snowy...
The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit Graham Joyce Doubleday Release Date: August 5, 2014 ISBN 978-0-385-53863-3 The Ghost in...
Evening Stars Susan Mallery Harlequin/Mira ISBN: 978-0-7738-1613-8 Nina Wentworth lives on Blackberry Island, a small community off the coast of...