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Sick Girl

by Amy Silverstein

“[Sick Girl] shocked me. It was a revelation. I couldn’t stop reading it. . . . It’s a book that made me shake my head in disbelief with every chapter….

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

by Kenzaburo Oe

“Rouse Up is a series of linked, meditative stories that examine Nobel laureate Oe’s changing relationship with his adolescent brain-damaged son through the prism of [William] Blake’s poetry . ….

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…

Paradise

by Elena Castedo

“Filled with rich descriptions and vivid scenes. Ms. Castedo’s language is exuberant.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Loving Che

by Ana Menéndez

“A beautiful and quite possible reinvention of history.” –Alan Cheuse, NPR…

Killing Dragons

by Fergus Fleming

“Excellent popular history, with its proper share of mad dogs and Englishmen. . . . dramatic and masterful.” –Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure…

Friends in High Places

by Donna Leon

“Leon tells the story as if she loves Venice as much as her detective does, warts and all. The plot and subplots unfold elegantly; beauty and the beast march hand…

Dorian

by Will Self

“The most significant way in which Self’s book differs from its predecessor is in its very freedom and frankness. . . . There’s no denying Self’s novel’s cleverness, best displayed…

Fair Warning

by Robert Olen Butler

“[Fair Warning is] often brilliant, [a] meditation on love and possession . . . Butler wins us over in the opening pages with this companionable, warts-and-all narrator . . ….

The Good Doctor

by Damon Galgut

“Like most elements of this slim, absorbing novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, the title is ambiguous. The narrator, Frank, is a doctor, but, to judge from our first impression,…