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This Boy’s Life

by Tobias Wolff

“Wolff writes in language that is lyrical without embellishment, defines his characters with exact strokes and perfectly pitched voices, [and] creates suspense around ordinary events, locating the deep mystery within…

Suffer the Little Children

by Donna Leon

…and internal politics is first-rate, as always, but this installment carries extra gravity and welcome plot twists that make it one of the series’ better efforts.” —Sarah Weinman, Baltimore Sun…

Smuggled

by Christina Shea

A vivid and deeply affecting novel about a woman’s life in Eastern Europe after she is smuggled across a critical border as a child in the waning days of WWII….

The Siege

by Helen Dunmore

…the generalizations of conventional histories. In The Siege, the specific becomes epic as five people huddle in one freezing room and Dunmore describes what is happening to them in language…

Shards

by Ismet Prcic

“Impressive . . . Inventive . . . Pushes against convention, logic, chronology . . . Ambitious and deep . . . [Prcic] succeeds at writing an unsettling and powerful…

A Sea of Troubles

by Donna Leon

“Brunetti’s humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight.” —The New York Times Book Review…

A Quiet Life

by Kenzaburo Oe

“[These] ordinary lives . . . are movingly illuminated . . . portraits drawn with affection, insight and that wry humor . . . that is one of the defining…

Quiet Days in Clichy

by Henry Miller

Henry Miller’s celebration of love, art, and the Bohemian life at a time when the world was simpler and slower….

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

by Anne Enright

“A powerhouse of vivid contrast and contradiction. . . . In a swashbuckling prologue replete with arresting sexual imagery, Enright lays bare her novel’s epic sweep. . . . Like…

A Personal Matter

by Kenzaburo Oe

“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor…