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[STAR]Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys. Doubleday. Jul. 2019. 224p. ISBN 9780385537070. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385537087. F After rendering the long history of American racism in his slightly fantastical Pulitzer Prize-winning [...]

[STAR]Laskar, Devi S. The Atlas of Reds and Blues. Counterpoint. Feb. 2019. 272p. ISBN 9781640091535. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781640091542. F [DEBUT] Pushcart Prize nominee Laskar here draws on unsettling personal [...]

Gray, Anissa. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. Berkley. Feb. 2019. 304p. ISBN 9781984802439. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781984802453. F [DEBUT] African American sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian have [...]

[STAR]Geni, Abby. The Wildlands. Counterpoint. Sept. 2018. 368p. ISBN 9781619022348. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781619022829. F In this acute and affecting follow-up to Geni's award-winning debut novel, The Lightkeepers, the McCloud [...]

Youngson, Anne. Meet Me at the Museum. Flatiron: Macmillan. Aug. 2018. 288p. ISBN 9781250295163. $23.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250295156. F [DEBUT] Trying to get a better understanding of her life, disaffected [...]

[STAR]Winman, Sarah. Tin Man. Putnam. May 2108. 224p. ISBN 9780735218727. $23; ebk. ISBN 9780735218758. F In this quiet stunner, short-listed for the Costa Book Award, Winman (When God Was a [...]

[STAR]Vermette, Katherena. The Break. House of Anansi. Mar. 2018. 288p. ISBN 9781487001117. pap. $16.95; ebk. ISBN 9781487001124. F [DEBUT] In this arresting fiction debut from Metis poet Vermette, a multi-award [...]

Lombardo, A G. Graffiti Palace. MCD: Farrar. Mar. 2018. 336p. ISBN 9780374165918. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780374716714. F [DEBUT] In Lombardo's ambitious debut, self-styled urbanologist Americo Monk (who's fascinated by gangs [...]

[STAR]Hansen, Malcolm. They Come in All Colors. Atria. May 2018. 320p. ISBN 9781501172328. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781501172342. F [DEBUT]In this emotionally acute debut novel, effectively delivered from a child's perspective, [...]

Reid, Noley. Pretend We Are Lovely. Tin House. Jul. 2107. 312p. ISBN 9781941040669. pap. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781941040676. F [DEBUT] In bright-as-a-penny writing, first novelist Reid delivers the absorbing story [...]

[STAR]Tallent, Gabriel. My Absolute Darling. Riverhead. Aug. 2017. 432p. ISBN 9780735211179. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780735211193. F [DEBUT] Few coming-of-age stories deliver the sheer lyrical power of Tallent's debut, a BookExpo [...]

Madrygin, Robert. The Solace of Trees. New Europe. Jul. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780997316902. pap. $16.95; ebk. ISBN 9780997316919. F [DEBUT] Using firm, quiet language to agonizing and ultimately infuriating effect, [...]

[STAR] Stanisic, Sasa. Before the Feast. Tin House. Jun. 2016. 316p. tr. from German by Anthea Bell. ISBN 9781941040393. pap. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781941040409. F Stanisic follows up his brilliantly [...]

Bennett, Claire-Louise. Pond. Riverhead. Jul. 2016. 208p. ISBN 9780399575891. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780399575914. F [DEBUT] Even as it focuses on life's everyday details--'the commonplace order of things,' as the unidentified [...]

Gowda, Shilpi Somaya. The Golden Son. Morrow. Jan. 2016. 400p. ISBN 9780062391452. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062391476. Gowda's first novel, Secret Daughter, disclosed the story of one little girl and two [...]

[STAR]Lee, Janice Y.K. The Expatriates. Viking. Jan. 2016. 336p. ISBN 9780525429470. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698404939. Fans of 2009's The Piano Teacher have long been awaiting this new novel from Lee, [...]

[STAR]Strout, Elizabeth. My Name Is Lucy Barton. Random. Jan. 2016. 208p. ISBN 9781400067695. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780812989076. F In a book worthy of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge, Strout again [...]

Critchley, Simon. Memory Theater. Other. Nov. 2015. 64p. ISBN 9781590517406. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781590517413. F [DEBUT] This debut novel by Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School [...]

Banville, John. The Blue Guitar. Knopf. Sept. 2015. 272p. ISBN 9780385354264. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385354271. F 'They would all see what I saw, but not as I did, with my [...]

Kundera, Milan. The Festival of Insignificance. Harper. 2015. 128p. ISBN 9780062356895. $23.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062388230. F In contemporary Paris, Alain contemplates the navel as the new source of female seductive [...]

O'Hagan, Andrew. The Illuminations. Farrar. Mar. 2015. 304p. ISBN 9780374174569. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780374712730. F Is truth the mere solidity of fact, wrestled from the world, or something to be [...]

Gruen, Sara. At the Water's Edge. Spiegel & Grau. Mar. 2015. 360p. ISBN 9780385523233. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780812997897. F 'Monsters abound, usually hiding in plain sight,' says Maddie, the heroine [...]

[star]Black, Cara. Murder on the Champ de Mars. Soho Crime. (Aimee Leduc, Bk. 15). Mar. 2015. 320p. ISBN 9781616952860. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781616952877. MYS Smart and sassy French detective Aimee [...]

Rapp, Adam. Know Your Beholder. Little, Brown. Mar. 2015. 352p. ISBN 9780316368919. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780316368902. F [DEBUT]Rapp is a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his play Red Light Winter, but [...]

Rubin, Jacob. The Poser. Viking. Mar. 2015. 256p. ISBN 9780670016761. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698143739. F [DEBUT]From an early age, Giovanni Bernini has demonstrated an uncanny ability to mimic those around [...]

Essbaum, Jill Alexander. Hausfrau. Random. Mar. 2015. 318p. ISBN 9780812997538. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780812997545. F [DEBUT]Novels about affectless housewives risking all to indulge in the edgy pleasures of extramarital sex [...]

Ferguson, Mark Andrew. The Lost Boys Symphony. Little, Brown. Mar. 2015. 352p. ISBN 9780316323994. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780316323970. F [DEBUT]Nerdy Rutgers student Henry is devastated when girlfriend Val breaks up [...]

[star]Bhutto, Fatima. The Shadow of the Crescent Moon. Penguin Pr. Mar. 2015. 232p. ISBN 9781594205606. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101622506. F [DEBUT]'It wasn't his war. Zalan didn't have a side in [...]

Leger, Dmitry Elias. God Loves Haiti. Amistad: HarperCollins. Mar. 2015. 272p. ISBN 9780062348135. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062348142. F [DEBUT] In 2010, when Haiti is hit by a goudou-goudou measuring an [...]

[star]Ackerman, Elliot. Green on Blue. Scribner. 2015. 256p. ISBN 9781476778556. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781476778570. F [DEBUT] Among many recent debut novels by Americans who have fought in the Middle East, [...]

Joyce, Rachel. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Random. Feb. 2015. 384p. ISBN 9780812996678. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780812996661. F Fans of Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry probably [...]

[star]Mitchell, David. The Bone Clocks. Random. 2014. 640p. ISBN 9781400065677. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780812994735. F In his breathtaking, audacious, stampedingly beautiful latest, Mitchell (CloudAtlas) uses the battle between evil soul [...]

[star]McBride, Eimear. A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing. Coffee House. 2014. 240p. ISBN 9781566893688. $24; ebk. ISBN 9781566893787. F The heroine of McBride's remarkable debut novel, winner of the Baileys [...]

Pitre, Michael. Fives and Twenty-Fives. Bloomsbury USA. Sept. 2014. 416p. ISBN 9781620407547. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781620407561. F 'The Shia in the south want to give our country to the Iranians. [...]

Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch. Little, Brown. Oct. 2013. 784p. ISBN 9780316055437. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780316247679. F This latest work from Tartt (Little Friend) is nothing like the small, exquisitely rendered [...]

Messud, Claire. The Woman Upstairs. Knopf. Apr. 2013. 253p. ISBN 9780307596901. $25.95. F The setup in this elegant winner of a novel seems so obvious; aren't warning bells sounding for [...]

Best European Fiction 2013. Dalkey Archive. 2012. 502p. ed. by Aleksandar Hemon. ISBN 9781564787927. pap. $16. F One might expect the fourth edition of this series, an instant classic, to [...]

Sington, Philip. The Valley of Unknowing. Norton. Dec. 2012. 304p. ISBN 9780393239331. $25.95. F Owing to a single work, his inspiring social realist classic The Orphans of Neustadt, Bruno Krug [...]

Hall, Donald. Christmas at Eagle Pond. Houghton Harcourt. 2012. 96p. ISBN 9780547581484. $14.95. F In an afterword, notes former poet laureate Hall, 'I have given myself the thing I most [...]

Carey, Peter. The Chemistry of Tears. Knopf. May 2012. c.240p. ISBN 9780307592712. $26. F Two-time Booker Prize winner Carey has crafted a novel about craft, the story of a woman [...]

[star] Baggott, Julianna. Pure. Grand Central. 2012. c.448p. ISBN 9781455503063. $25.99. F Baggott has written fiction, poetry, and children's books, but nothing she has done can prepare readers for the [...]

[star]Wallace, David Foster. The Pale King. Little, Brown. Apr. 2011. 560p. ISBN 9780316074230. $27.99. F Partway through this compendium of materials discovered after Wallace's tragic 2008 suicide, a character conflated [...]

Niffenegger, Audrey. Her Fearful Symmetry. Scribner. Sept. 2009. c.416p. ISBN 978-14391-6539-3. $26.99. F Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and has left her London apartment to her estranged twin sister [...]

Perez-Reverte, Arturo. The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet. Putnam. Sept. 2009. c.384p. tr. from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. ISBN 978-0-399-15603-8. $25.95. M Capt. Diego Alatriste in love? Not really, [...]