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Abbeville by Jack Fuller
From the very first line of Eugene Mirabelli’s seventh novel, you are led to understand that The Goddess in Love with a Horse is a very different kind of book.
Missy by Chris Hannan
Missy is unforgettable. Carefully wrought, beautifully executed. And definitely not for kids.
The Goddess in Love with a Horse by Eugene Mirabelli
From the very first line of Eugene Mirabelli’s seventh novel, you are led to understand that The Goddess in Love with a Horse is a very different kind of book.
Dervishes by Beth Helms
Living in an enclave of Ankara, Turkey, 12 year-old Canada, and her mother, Grace, live an aimless expatriate life, while Rand, father and husband, mysteriously appears and disappears on secretive government assignments, probably CIA related.
On Account of Conspicuous Women by Dawn Shamp
On Account of Conspicuous Women is the exact opposite of an epic novel. It is quiet, unassuming, even gentle yet ever so worthwhile.
Kiss the Joy as It Flies by Sheree Fitch
It’s funny to think of Sheree Fitch as a debut author. Her name is well known to Canadian children, who know her through her many bestselling books.
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey
Bright Shiny Morning is not perfect. There are weirdly wide flaws. But it is utterly, completely original.
The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell
The Resurrectionist begins on a sharp and steady noir/crime fiction beat, and becomes ever more surreal until, by journey’s end, it’s difficult to keep track of what is real and what is not.
Asylum by André Alexis
Asylum is deeply layered, beautifully imagined and realized and it satisfies to the core.
How to Be Single by Liz Tuccilo
Because the lines between fiction and non-fiction have not been blurred enough, Liz Tuccillo -- one of the co-authors of He’s Not That Into You and one of the story editors of HBO’s Sex and the City -- delivers big with How to Be Single.
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Tonoharu by Lars Martinson
Tonaharu is on its way to being one of those book business phenomena that people talk about in hushed tones: the self-publishing success story.
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
Padma Viswasathan’s debut novel is deceptively quiet and quietly brilliant. It pads in on little cat feet and rips you along.
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek
It seems possible that We Are Now Beginning Our Descent would have been a much better book if its übbertalented author, James Meek, had just hung on for a decade or so before telling this story. As things are, sometimes it all just seems a little to close, a little too raw.
Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
Our Story Begins contains 31 stories traversing roughly the same time period. Don’t let the length put you off. Wolff’s polished, unobtrusive writing carries you along steadily until, with a start, the book is finished.
The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu
Liao intends to inform as well as sicken us. He succeeds, but at a cost, for the book ultimately collapses beneath the weight of its message.
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
A skillfully fictionalized retelling of the relationship between mega-architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the woman who was probably the love of the arrogant architect's life, Mamah Borthwick Cheney.
Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
Keeper and Kid seems to be about transformation, but is really about revelation. “Absolutely unforgettable” says January’s reviewer.
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri is cause for hope. She gives strength to those of us quietly waiting for the pomo moment, with its eponymously named characters, drawings, and blank pages, to pass, for she need not resort to their trickery.
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