If your book club is in a rut, you’re not alone: Complaints about a lack of excitement in the books any particular book group chooses are common. The titles in this week’s list will get the conversation jumping again. These books aren’t controversial, exactly; they just go against the grain, prompt you to re-think issues or ideas you thought you had settled on, or make it easy to fall in love with a story.
FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Plainspoken stories filled with profound ambivalence and occasional flickers of redemption."
A provocative and revelatory debut, filled with stories about losing faith and trying (often in vain) to find purpose, mainly set amid the sparsely populated Mormon country of the rugged Northwest.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 2013
"A powerful narrative of the dark side of American combat in the Pacific theater and the persistence of resulting injuries decades after the war ended."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"A horrifying cautionary tale that reveals the vast dimensions of our vulnerability in the cyber age."
The story of a 30-something college student who employed an array of digital weapons to attack her writing professor, who loved her writing but rejected her amorous advances.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"At its best, a chilling vision of the ugliness of keeping up appearances."
FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2013
"Smart, comic, unsettling, yet strangely of a piece--not unlike its disarming lead character."
A man's collapsed marriage and growing madness imperils his young daughter in this bracing third novel by Gaige (
The Folded World, 2007, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2013
"Delightfully eerie tales from the dark side."
