Girl in the Moonlight by Charles Dubow
Some novels start with a clichéd concept and turn it into something out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, in Girl in the Moonlight, Charles Dubow starts with a clichéd concept (a boy falls in love...
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Best New Books to Read: June 2015 Releases
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...
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Seveneves begins with a bang – literally. Neal Stephenson minces no words in the first sentence of his new novel: “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” One minute the...
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy’s latest book Satin Island exists in a glorious new realm of writing between a novel, a narrative manifesto, a treatise, and a test. Written in the form of a bureaucratic report, Satin...
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Those who read and liked Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life are bound to like its companion piece, A God in Ruins. If you have not read the former you will be introduced to memorable...
Lord Fear by Lucas Mann
Luke Mann was 13-years-old when his brother Josh overdosed on heroin. He opens Lord Fear, a memoir of his brother’s life, at Josh’s funeral because, “I once read a Philip Roth novel that begins...
The Familiar Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski has an aura around him. His exceptional first novel House of Leaves remains one of the finest examples of “cult” literature out there, shrouded in mystery but still possessing a glut...
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The premise of Anne Enright’s The Green Road has been told countless times before. Rosaleen Madigan is the mother of four independent, self-deprecating children, each of whom live independently around the globe as they...
I Refuse by Per Petterson
Per Petterson is the author of seven novels, including the acclaimed Out Stealing Horses, a best book of 2007 and subsequently published in 50 languages. His first novel in nearly five years is a...
