10 Books That Sweep You Off Your Feet (And Put You Somewhere Else)

by Kate Atkinson

Provocative, entertaining and beautifully written. It’s not quite the tour de force that her Case Histories (2004) was, but... Full review >

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by Brian Kimberling

A well-turned debut that airdrops its characters into an appealingly offbeat milieu. Full review >

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by Rick Yancey

Nothing short of amazing. Full review >

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by Joyce Carol Oates

Though it requires some work and has a wintry feel to it, it’s oddly entertaining, as a good supernatural yarn should be. Full review >

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by Ofir Touché Gafla ; translated by Mitch Ginsburg

Simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking, handled with sublime assurance, astonishingly inventive, funny and totally... Full review >

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by Gabriel García Márquez & illustrated by Gregory Rabassa by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Those who pass time with the Señor will find this a luxuriant, splendid and spirited conception. Full review >

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by Antti Tuomainen

Tapani’s search, which will lead him through an appalling series of cityscapes to some shattering discoveries about the wife... Full review >

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by Mary Roach

A delightful, illuminating grab bag of space-flight curiosities. Full review >

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by Guy Gavriel Kay

Lucid and lyrical, and skillfully written, with the sweep of an old-fashioned Pearl S. Buck or James A. Michener saga. Full review >

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by Therese Anne Fowler

Fowler has given us a lovely, sad and compulsively readable book. Full review >

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