BEA 2012 Recommended Fiction

by Jennifer Weiner

The conflicts enmeshing all these characters, as each becomes embroiled in Marcus and India’s “assisted gestation” scheme,... Full review >

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by Richard Ford

At the start of the novel’s coda, when Dell explains that he teaches his students “books that to me seem secretly about my... Full review >

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by Karen Thompson Walker

Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving. Full review >

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by Leonard Goldberg

Goldberg, a clinical professor at UCLA Medical Center, has the expertise to provide an exciting medical thriller. This... Full review >

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by Cara Black

Black’s 12th lets readers peek into a corner of Paris that Fodor’s leaves out. Full review >

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by Ben Fountain

War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. Full review >

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by Francesca Segal

Even if the plot and themes are second-hand, this is an emotionally and intellectually astute debut. Full review >

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by Chris Cleave

In weaker hands this would seem a bit contrived, but Cleave knows how to captivate with rich characters and nimble plotting. Full review >

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edited by Russ Kick

If artists, as British sculptor Anish Kapoor famously said, make mythologies, then this volume is genuinely a marriage of... Full review >

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by Gillian Flynn

One of those rare thrillers whose revelations actually intensify its suspense instead of dissipating it. The final pages are... Full review >

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by Laird Hunt

Profoundly imaginative, strikingly original, deeply moving. Full review >

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by Amity Gaige

Smart, comic, unsettling, yet strangely of a piece—not unlike its disarming lead character. Full review >

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by Hanna Pylväinen

It’s always a good thing when one wants more instead of less. A promising debut, and a glimpse at a hidden American... Full review >

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by Walter Mosley

Ingenious and mystical, although readers familiar with fantasy and science fiction will find little new or provocative here.... Full review >

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by Mark Helprin

A fine adult love story—not in the prurient sense, but in the sense of lovers elevated from smittenness to all the grown-up... Full review >

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