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AMERICAN DERVISHby Ayad Akhtar
Engaging and accessible, thoughtful without being daunting: This may be the novel that brings Muslim-American fiction into... Full review >
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THE UNDERTOWby Jo Baker
Immediate, poignant and rarely predictable, this searchingly observant work captures a huge terrain of personal aspiration... Full review >
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A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOMEby Wiley Cash
An evocative work about love, fate and redemption. Full review >
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THE ORCHARDISTSuperb work from an abundantly gifted young writer. Full review >
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THE BOOK OF JONASby Stephen Dau
A charity sends Jonas to live with the Martins, an evangelical family in Pennsylvania. There he attends high school, an... Full review >
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THE STOCKHOLM OCTAVOThe setup is wonderfully engrossing; the denouement doesn’t deliver quite enough. But this is stylish work by an author of... Full review >
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ABSOLUTIONComplex in theme, complex in narrative, this is a masterful literary exploration of the specter of conscience and the... Full review >
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CITY OF WOMENThe blond beauty is Sigrid, a stenographer living alone with her unpleasant mother-in-law while her husband, Kaspar, serves... Full review >
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THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEAREDA great cure for the blues, especially for anyone who might feel bad about growing older. Full review >
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THE INFINITE TIDESA wonderfully executed debut novel, so rich as to inspire rereading, right down to its inevitable resolution, both ironic... Full review >
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THE PROFESSIONALSLet’s hope Laukkanen writes more thrillers like this one. Full review >
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THE YEAR OF THE GADFLYA gripping thrill ride that’s also a thoughtful coming-of-age story. Full review >
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THE YELLOW BIRDSby Kevin Powers
Powers writes with a rawness that brings the sights and smells as well as the trauma and decay of war home to the reader. Full review >
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IN THE SHADOW OF THE BANYANOften lyrical, sometimes a bit ponderous: a painful, personal record of Cambodia’s holocaust. Full review >
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HAND ME DOWNFailed by the adults in her life and forced to be the grown-up when she should be experiencing first dates and football... Full review >
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THE AGE OF MIRACLESRiveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving. Full review >
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