Book Review: The Land of Steady Habits
/An affluent suburban family breaks apart and re-forms in this remarkably assured debut novel
Read MoreAn affluent suburban family breaks apart and re-forms in this remarkably assured debut novel
Read MoreA precocious young girl and her family travel far and wide from her beloved home of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Read MoreIn chaos-plagued Beirut, a voracious reader lives an oddly fulfilling secret life
Read MoreA retired small-town music professor becomes an unlikely fugitive from the law in Richard Powers' latest novel
Read MoreWhen an ordinary man pulls an arrow from the wing of a crane, extraordinary things begin to happen in the new novel by Patrick Ness
Read MoreDon't be fooled by the "Rebecca" echoes - there's a lot more to Rachel Pastan's "Alena" than mere Manderley-redux
Read MoreA new collection of old short stories from the writer of "The Flame Alphabet"
Read MoreA young man born and raised in the wild of Yosemite Valley is forced into a series of confrontations with an encroaching outside world.
Read MoreA self-absorbed young Brooklyn writer (what else?) goes from relationship to relationship in search of ... what, exactly?
Read MoreJack Wolf's risk-taking debut explores the boundaries of insanity and rationality
Read MoreIn a novel that's not as easy as it looks, a soldier comes home to his small Vermont town from Afghanistan - and to the young woman he left behind there.
Read MoreThe barbaric custom of 'honor killing' is the hinge on which best-selling author Elif Shafak's complex new novel turns
Read MoreWith the arrival of a new baby, a young Brooklyn couple say good-bye to sleep ... and start making some very strange decisions.
Read MoreIn this historical novel, the Armenian community of Paris negotiates the arrival of the Nazis - and a young girl navigates her first romance
Read MoreA young woman finds herself on a ship at sea with both her fiance and a mysterious man from her past, and it's all like something you'd find in a book ...
Read MoreA patrician family copes with all kinds of disappointment in Louisa Hall's not-at-all-disappointing debut novel
Read MoreThe horny, feckless narrator of Kultgen's "The Average American Male" returns: married, with kids - and, of course, lusting after a co-worker
Read MoreUnsure of what to do with her life, a woman turns an old stone house into an inn on the coast of Ireland, and strangers begin to gather ...
Read MoreIn 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi pursues the most desperate of criminals, driven by an absolute commitment to justice - and helped by a gift he alone possesses.
Read MoreThe newest novel from the newest Chilean literary wunderkind
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