10 Characters You Won't Soon Forget

by Misha Glenny

Glenny does an admirable investigative job, delving deeply into the complicated causes and effects of Rio’s drug trafficking. Full review >

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by Tom Hart illustrated by Tom Hart

A bracing, deeply saddening journey into death and loss whose wryly affirmative resolution, “joy breaking through the storm... Full review >

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by Garth Greenwell

A luminous, searing exploration of desire, alienation, and the powerful tattoo of the past. Full review >

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by Molly Crabapple illustrated by Molly Crabapple

Compelling reading about how art gave the author “a way to see, to record, to fight and interrogate…to find joy where once I... Full review >

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by Louise Penny

Penny is an expert at pulling away the surface of her characters to expose their deeper—and often ugly—layers, always doing... Full review >

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by Paul Rudnick

Hilarious, irresistible, and oh so timely. Full review >

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by Alexander Chee

Richly researched, ornately plotted, this story demands, and repays, close attention. Full review >

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by Kaitlin Ward

Grisly and sickening (but in the best way possible), the novel more than delivers on its promise of the macabre for lovers... Full review >

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by Elizabeth McKenzie

McKenzie’s idiosyncratic love story scampers along on a wonderfully zig-zaggy path, dashing and darting in delightfully... Full review >

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by Mary Gaitskill

Gaitskill explores the complexities of love (mares, meres…) to bring us a novel that gallops along like a bracing bareback... Full review >

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