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Purity by Jonathan Franzen Millennial malaise, digital over saturation, masculinity and contemporary feminism are on the menu in Jonathan Franzen’s new sweeping epic starring a mid-twenties college graduate named Pip “Purity” Tyler. (FSG, September...
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ In The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins has crafted a contemporary fantasy novel that is at once brutally dark and wickedly funny. The curtain opens on a woman...
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young man who leads an ordinary life in London until one day he comes upon an injured girl named Door who brings Richard into...
London, 1884. Nathaniel Steepleton ekes a meager living as a governmental employee, a telegraphist at the Home Office. His days tick off routinely one after the other until the mysterious arrival of a golden...
Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager is a rapid-fire thriller set in a dystopic future defined by rust, decay, and absolute corporate hegemony. It’s the 26th century, and mankind has finally done it. We’ve finally rendered...
A roman a clef is a novel that is based on real events and/or people. The term was coined in France in the 17th century by the writer Madeleine de Scudéry, who wrote about...
Ernest Cline’s debut novel, Ready Player One, was a kaleidoscopic smorgasbord of 1980s pop culture slammed into the virtual world of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that existed in Cline’s nightmarish, post-apocalyptic...
Confession of the Lioness by Mia Couto The women in the isolated African village of Kulumani are being stalked by lionesses. To solve the problem, the village hires an outsider whose relationship with a...
Looking for a good book to read? Here are six great new books coming in June 2015. The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida Vendela Vida’s protagonist has her wallet and passport stolen...
