This is a week of GORGEOUS covers. Not that we judge a book by it’s cover or anything, but it never hurts to have a fantastic story on your shelf that does double duty as poignant entertainment and art. With that in mind, be sure to pick up Book of...
When we first heard about The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, we got so excited to feature it that we accidentally selected it twice. In two different genres (Literary Fiction and Mystery). Any book that uses the word ‘iconoclastic’ in the first sentence of the description sounds like a book...
Judy Blume fans, rejoice! The celebrated bestselling author of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret released her eagerly awaited novel In the Unlikely Event today. In addition, two debut novels to keep your eye on are I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them and Eight Hundred Grapes, which both premiered today. Sign...
Getting plenty of buzz this week (including an interview with NPR) is Sarai Walker’s Dietland, a look into the stigmas and pressures that women, in the protagonist’s case, fat women, face in American society. Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the renowned The Windup Girl, has a new book this week: The Water Knife. Get...
Are you a fan of Garrison Keillor, Christopher Moore or Chuck Klosterman? Pick up bestselling humorist Michael Perry’s The Jesus Cow as this new novel explains faith and the foibles of modern life (available in Kindle eBook, Hardcover and Audiobook). If you like to follow award winning authors, consider Catherine...
Fellow readers, Kazuo Ishiguro has done it again. The Buried Giant is his first book in a decade, and its sweeping narrative is guaranteed to enchant. He brings the same literary mind that crafted Never Let Me Go into the genre of magical realism, using familiar tropes to synthesize a...
If you liked the books we mentioned in the 2014 Award Winners article, check out The Green Road, a new novel by a previous winner of the Man Booker Prize (Anne Enright). Fans of witty dialogue and propulsive narrative may enjoy Lisa Lutz’s How to Start a Fire, which is...
What would happen if Adolf Hitler woke up in modern-day Berlin? Find out with Timur Vermes’ Look Who’s Back, available in Kindle eBook, Hardcover or Paperback format. If you’re not in the mood for satire, give Lucinda Riley’s The Seven Sisters a shot. Riley is an internationally bestselling author and...
Do you enjoy speculating on the future? Look up Nicole Wallace’s Madame President for a novel including domestic and political intrigue about the 45th President of the United States. From the Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley (author of Some Luck), her next book Early Warning will be available in Kindle...