Reviews & Recommendations
2011
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Cain by Jose Saramago
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
Luminarium by Alex Shakar
Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia by Blake Butler
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Fathermucker by Greg Olear
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Untraditional Love Story: Q: A Novel by Evan Mandery and Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto by Gianni Rodari
The Uninnocent: Stories by Bradford Morrow
You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik
2012
Smut by Alan Bennett
The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
The Ruins of Us by Keija Parssinen
Heft by Liz Moore
The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You by Caits Meissner and Tishon
Monstress: Stories by Lysley Tenorio
Other People We Married: Stories by Emma Straub
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Threats by Amelia Gray
Ivyland by Miles Klee
Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events by Kevin Moffett
The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret
The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunathilaka
What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher Beha
The Festival of Earthly Delights by Matt Dojny
Two Strange Stories: You’re an Animal, Viskovitz! by Alessandro Boffa and Daniel Fights a Hurricane by Shane Jones
The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
A Poetry Primer: Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky, Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me by Mark Leidner, and Late in the Form by Ben Lerner
Fall Reading Roundup: The Dream of Doctor Bantam by Jeanne Thornton, Kind One by Laird Hunt, and Pink Thunder by Michael Zapruder
2013
Sky Saw by Blake Butler
