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Enon, by Paul Harding (Random House). An extraordinary follow-up to the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning début, “Tinkers,” this novel takes its title from the name of a tiny New England village, where...
View ArticleWhat They Do in the Dark
Two schoolgirls strike up an unlikely friendship, with grim consequences, in this début novel. Gemma comes from a comfortable family in the midst of breaking up, as her mother takes her to live with a...
View ArticleThese Dreams of You
Set against the 2008 election of Barack Obama and the concurrent unravelling of the economy, this ruminative novel takes in the slowly disintegrating lives of a bohemian California family. An...
View ArticleForgotten Country
This début novel depicts the delicate ways in which families hurt and heal one another. Janie, the oldest daughter of a Korean immigrant family in Detroit, has always felt a special responsibility for...
View ArticleThe Betrayal
The effects of repression replace those of deprivation in this sequel to Dunmore’s “The Siege,” which was set during the long siege of Leningrad in the Second World War. It’s now 1952, and Anna and...
View ArticleMice
Reece, the author of several children’s books, makes his adult début with a topical, tautly plotted novel that centers on a bullied teen-ager who discovers her own capacity for violence. Shelley, a...
View ArticleWhite Heat
Set in the Canadian High Arctic, this début novel encompasses the hard, otherworldly beauty of the far north and the rapaciousness of energy moguls determined to exploit the area’s natural resources....
View ArticleLola, California
Lana and Rose, teen-agers living in Berkeley in the early nineteen-eighties, call themselves the Lolas: free-spirited, adventurous, sirenic. Such an intense friendship is bound to have a breaking...
View ArticleRed on Red
This début novel takes a cerebral look at the moral and philosophical quandaries of a modern police force. Nick, a depressive New York City detective struggling with a failing marriage, agrees to act...
View ArticleThe Color of Night
It’s September of 2001, and for Mae, a card dealer at a Nevada casino, the attack on the World Trade Center provokes not horror but a sort of exultation—and, in the newsreel footage, brings the image...
View ArticleThe Troubled Man
The eleventh novel starring Kurt Wallander—and likely the last, Mankell has said—depicts the dour detective sensing that his life may soon draw to a close. As Wallander copes with lapses of memory,...
View ArticleStarted Early, Took My Dog
In this novel, the fourth featuring the private investigator Jackson Brodie, Brodie sets out to find a young woman’s birth parents and ends up enmeshed in a decades-old mystery surrounding a violently...
View ArticleEmily, Alone
Emily Maxwell, widowed and preoccupied with the inexorable approach of her own death, spends her days in fastidious rituals and mournful remembrances. Her children are distant and her closest friends...
View ArticleThe Illumination
In this moving novel, an enigmatic event (the “illumination” of the title) renders all pain radiant: every headache and broken bone glows with an otherworldly light. Brockmeier’s characters, however,...
View ArticleHeartstone
Sansom’s capacious mystery novel, his fifth centered on Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer in Tudor England, sets its mysteries against rumors of a French invasion, brought on by King Henry VIII’s continued...
View ArticleOld Border Road
This début novel, set in the open spaces of the Southwest in an indeterminate modern age, traces the disappointments and betrayals of a young woman’s first year of marriage. Katherine’s feckless mother...
View ArticleMr. Toppit
This début novel examines the unexpected consequences of literary fame. Luke Hayman is, to his dismay, better known as Luke Hayseed, the young hero of children’s books written by his father, Arthur,...
View ArticleNorthern Spy Food Co.
At this East Village restaurant, farm-to-table feels less like a philosophy than a literal description. Whitewashed brick walls and green patterned wallpaper have the spare beauty of a homestead....
View ArticleThe Convent
When an infant is apparently abandoned on the steps of an isolated convent, the decision to keep the child disturbs the nuns’ quiet life. At the heart of this novel, set in Spain after the First World...
View ArticleSalvation City
Nunez tackles American decline and religious fervor in this novel set in the near future. Thirteen-year-old Cole has lost both his parents, and a good deal of his memory, to a devastating flu pandemic...
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