The End of Your Life Book Club

by Roberto Bolaño & translated by Natasha Wimmer

One of the most entertaining books about writers and their discontents since Boswell’s Life of Johnson. A brilliant novel,... Full review >

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by Marilynne Robinson

Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and... Full review >

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by Ken Follett

Says Tom of the cathedral he plans to build, it’s “simple, inexpensive, graceful and perfectly proportioned.” This app... Full review >

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by Mohsin Hamid

A superb cautionary tale, and a grim reminder of the continuing cost of ethnic profiling, miscommunication and confrontation. Full review >

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by Anne Lamott

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by Khaled Hosseini

Rather than settle for a coming-of-age or travails-of-immigrants story, Hosseini has folded them both into this searing... Full review >

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by Alice Munro

As Munro explains in her acknowledgements, it’s a story based on the final days of Sophia Kovalevski, a brilliant Russian... Full review >

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by Stieg Larsson ; translated by Reg Keeland

Juicy melodrama obscured by the intricacies of problem-solving. Full review >

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by Tim Russert

A largely self-effacing souvenir and a fulsome, sincere Father’s Day greeting. (16 pp. photos, not seen) Full review >

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by Elizabeth Strout

A perfectly balanced portrait of the human condition, encompassing plenty of anger, cruelty and loss without ever losing... Full review >

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by J.R. Moehringer

A straight-up account of masculinity, maturity and memory that leaves a smile on the face and an ache in the heart. Full review >

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by Joan Didion

A potent depiction of grief, but also a book lacking the originality and acerbic prose that distinguished Didion’s earlier... Full review >

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