Featured Author Review: The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
Welcome, LitStackers, to a new month and our old favorite, the Featured Author segment. This month, we're celebrating the works...
Welcome, LitStackers, to a new month and our old favorite, the Featured Author segment. This month, we're celebrating the works...
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...
The Night Ocean Paul La Farge Penguin Press Release Date: March 7, 2017 ISBN 978-1-1019-8108-5 I cracked open the cover...
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 Princess DiaristCarrie FisherBlue Rider PressRelease Date: November 22, 2016ISBN 978-0-3991-7359-2 In her 1984 semi-biographical novel Postcards from the Edge,...
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,...
The Fate of the Tearling Erika Johansen Harper Release Date: November 29, 2016 ISBN 978-0-0622-9042-7 In 2014, Erika Johansen debuted...
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...
Manitou Canyon William Kent Krueger Atria Books Release Date: September 6, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4767-4926-6 Cork O'Connor, former sheriff and now...
Time Salvager Wesley Chu Tor Book Release Date: July 7, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-7718-0 (NOTE: Why I didn't post this review...
LaRose Louise Erdrich Harper Release Date: May 10, 2016 ISBN 978-0-06-227702-2 Last year, Louise Erdrich was awarded the Library of...
Career of Evil Robert Galbraith Mulholland Books Release Date: October 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-34993-2 Career of Evil, the third book...
Fishing With RayAnne Ava Finch Lake Union Publishing Release Date: November 3, 2015 ISBN 978-15-0-39476-89 At first glance, RayAnne Dahl...
The Hummingbird Stephen P. Kiernan William Morrow Release Date: September 8, 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-236954-3 Deborah Birch, the heroine of Stephen...
The Gates of Evangeline Hester Young G. P. Putnam’s Sons Release Date: September 1, 2015 ISBN 978-0-399174-001 It’s a compelling...
Finders Keepers Stephen King Scribner Release Date: June 2, 2015 ISBN 978-1-5011-0007-9 Finders Keepers is Stephen King’s love letter to...
The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead Books Release Date: January 13, 2015 ISBN 978-1-59463-366-9 Rachel Watson may not...
Biggie Derek E. Sullivan Albert Whitman & Company Release Date: March 1, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8075-0727-8 Henry Abbott is 16...
Gemini Cell Myke Cole Ace Books Release Date: January 27, 2015 ISBN 978-0-425-26964-0 They're lying to you. Whoever wrote the...
Glow Ned Beauman Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: January 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-385-35260-4 Raf is 22 years old, and living...
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...
Windigo Island William Kent Krueger Atria Books Release Date: August 19, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4767-4923-5 Windigo Island is the 14th book...
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...
Travels With Casey Benoit Denizet-Lewis Simon & Schuster Release Date: July 22, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4391-4693-4 Premise: a man sets out...
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club Genevieve Valentine Atria Books Release Date: June 3, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4767-3908-3 "The Twelve Dancing...
Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line Michael Gibney Ballantine Books Release Date: April 3, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8041-7788-7 I recently...
The Queen of the Tearling Erika Johansen HarperCollins Publishers Release Date: July 8, 2014 ISBN 978-0-06-229036-6 The Queen of the...
That Part Was True Deborah McKinlay Grand Central Publishing Release Date: February 4, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4555-7365-3 You know, I wasn't...
The Three Sarah Lotz Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: May 20,2014 ISBN 978-0-316-24290-5 Conspiracy theories. New ones pop up...
The Pink Suit Nicole Mary Kelby Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: April 29, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-23565-5 Few garments have...
The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd Viking First Edition: January 7, 2014 ISBN 978-0-670-02478-0 Sarah Grimké, who is the...
Safe from the Sea Peter Geye Unbridled Books First Edition:May 21, 2009 ISBN 978-1-60953-008-2 Duluth, Minnesota, located on Lake Superior's...
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin Algonquin Books First Edition: April 1, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61620-321-4 What a lovely...
Shotgun Lovesongs Nickolas Butler Thomas Dunne Books Release Date: March 11, 2014 ISBN 978-1-250-03981-1 It's rare when you read a...