The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
If you are looking for a novel that makes you feel good about life, the world, and yourself, DO...
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The Lower Quarter by Elise Blackwell
Sometimes I find a novel that so successfully melds place, character, and story it is hard to...
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Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor
I have always had a fascination with Emily Dickinson: her secluded spinsterhood, her white...
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The Little Brother by Victoria Patterson
This is a story about rape told from the viewpoint of the rapist’s little brother. It is horrific,...
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In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
All my life, I’ve had all kinds of friends, many of whom would never get along with each other....
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The Green Road by Anne Enright
Almost in time for Mother’s Day, Anne Enright delivers a classic Irish mother. Rosaleen Madigan...
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God Help The Child by Toni Morrison
Sweetness says, “It’s not my fault. So you can’t blame me, I didn’t do it and have no idea how it...
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West of Sunset by Stewart O’Nan
What a sad story. A fictionalized tale of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years, it is even sadder than...
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Hild by Nicola Griffith
I have spent the last four days in seventh century Britain so fully engrossed in its brutal and...
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At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcon
When I read Daniel Alarcon’s first novel, I knew I had found a writer I would follow, that I would...
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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives edited by Sarah Weinman
Sarah Weinman, queen of mystery and crime fiction reviews, has done a great thing. In this...
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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is one of my top three favorite authors. She is frighteningly intelligent, has a...
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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Earlier this summer, I began Midnight’s Children. It was tough going and I spent as much time in...
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
The best part of Five Star Billionaire is the end because of a surprise plot twist that I did not...
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Enon by Paul Harding
Enon. An abbreviation of a Latin word? A biblical name? Here it is the name of a small town in New...
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My Education by Susan Choi
Susan Choi’s new novel will be known as that steamy book about an affair between two women. Steamy...
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The Night Gwen Stacy Died by Sarah Bruni
Last night I saw “Man of Steel” which I liked and disliked in equal measure. This may be the year...
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Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
I like Curtis Sittenfeld’s novels. She writes with insight about life as a female, whether...
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Transatlantic by Colum McCann
Part family saga, part historical fiction, and a big love song to Ireland, Transatlantic is an...
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Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
The publisher’s letter to the reader in the front of my review copy of Woke Up Lonely suggests there are two ways to read the novel: speedily while being propelled by the action or taking one’s time to savor Maazel’s precision, wit, and prose.…
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The Mothers by Jennifer Gilmore
There is a new word in the zeitgeist: Fertility. It appears to be a problem aligned to a socioeconomic level, as middle-class women who put off baby making for careers, who rack up stress out in the cold, hard, competitive world of the workplace, then find it hard to conceive and/or carry a baby to term.…
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The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates!!! She is a force to be reckoned with. I haven’t read her for several years but I grew up in Princeton, NJ.…
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