FICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2011
Follett's 1,000-plus-page blockbuster, originally published in 1989, morphs into a sprawling (1.6 GB) iPad app, complete with text, videos and sound.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 17, 2009
"Until the next Munro collection."
Every story collection from Canada's Alice Munro receives such critical plaudits that it's tempting for reviewers to recycle superlatives and readers to take her for granted.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 19, 2008
"Juicy melodrama obscured by the intricacies of problem-solving."
First U.S. publication for a deceased Swedish author (1954–2004); this first of his three novels, a bestseller in Europe, is a labored mystery.
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FICTION
Released: April 15, 2008
"A perfectly balanced portrait of the human condition, encompassing plenty of anger, cruelty and loss without ever losing sight of the equally powerful presences of tenderness, shared pursuits and lifelong loyalty."
The abrasive, vulnerable title character sometimes stands center stage, sometimes plays a supporting role in these 13 sharply observed dramas of small-town life from Strout (
Abide with Me, 2006, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2007
"One of the most entertaining books about writers and their discontents since Boswell's Life of Johnson. A brilliant novel, fully deserving of its high international reputation."
The search for a missing poet is the nominal subject of the late (1953–2003) expatriate Chilean author's blazingly original 1998 masterpiece.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2007
"A superb cautionary tale, and a grim reminder of the continuing cost of ethnic profiling, miscommunication and confrontation."
A young Muslim's American experience raises his consciousness and shapes his future in this terse, disturbing successor to the London-based Pakistani author's first novel,
Moth Smoke (2000).
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 2005
"A potent depiction of grief, but also a book lacking the originality and acerbic prose that distinguished Didion's earlier writing."
A moving record of Didion's effort to survive the death of her husband and the near-fatal illness of her only daughter.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2005
"A straight-up account of masculinity, maturity and memory that leaves a smile on the face and an ache in the heart."
It takes a gin mill to raise a child--or so one might think from this memoir filled with gladness by a Pulitzer Prize–winning
Los Angeles Times correspondent.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2004
"Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering."
The wait since 1981 and
Housekeeping is over. Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America--and break your heart.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 10, 2004
"A largely self-effacing souvenir and a fulsome, sincere Father's Day greeting. (16 pp. photos, not seen)"
The gimlet-eyed interlocutor of
Meet the Press is a pussycat when it comes to matters of family and faith.
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FICTION
Released: June 2, 2003
"Rather than settle for a coming-of-age or travails-of-immigrants story, Hosseini has folded them both into this searing spectacle of hard-won personal salvation. All this, and a rich slice of Afghan culture too: irresistible."
Here's a real find: a striking debut from an Afghan now living in the US. His passionate story of betrayal and redemption is framed by Afghanistan's tragic recent past.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1999
"An anguishing account that also heals."
Brutally honest, sometimes funny vignettes about affirming faith and community in the midst of drug-induced angst.
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