Good Neighbors by Joanne Serling
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A first-rate suburbs-fiction that serves as an elegant but savage indictment.
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Help I Am Being Held Prisoner by Donald E. Westlake
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Maximum violence immediately. Except swap "joke" for "violence."
Read MoreWonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity by Navid Kermani
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This translation of Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum is a collection of Kermani's vivid encounters with various works of Christianity-inspired artwork.
Read MoreTom Yawkey: Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox by Bill Nowlin
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A wonky, magnificent work of baseball writing that will be necessary reading for all Red Sox fans.
Read MoreLullaby by Leïla Slimani
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt last year, this character study alternates between the perspectives of its two central female characters.
Read MoreThe Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Clive James
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There is an astonishment, a certain mad arrogance (or even madder humility) in presenting an English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to a 21st Century audience without any accompanying notes. Purists might say 'the poem - any poem - should be able to stand on its own, to speak clearly without the crutch of notes' - but such purists are seldom translators.
Read MoreRise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman
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A picture of what decades of persecution will do to the moral fiber of a nation surrounded by enemies.
Read MoreEisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World by Louis Galambos
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A brisk, almost aphoristic biography, covering every stage of Eisenhower's life.
Read MoreThe Take by Christopher Reich
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An international crime-thriller with plot twists coming literally until the book's final page.
Read MoreIt's Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston
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The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop.
Read MorePhone by Will Self
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A book that is, in addition to all its stylistic pyrotechnics, a magnificent portrait of fragility.
Read MoreThe Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
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Braided twin narratives of two philosophies – and the lives of the men who espoused them.
Read MoreThe Book: An Homage by Burkhard Spinnen
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A light, entirely uncritical series of more-or-less connected brief musings on various aspects of the bookish life.
Read MoreHasidism: A New History
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An amazing story shot through with persecution and revelation, played out against the governmental and ideological convulsions that gave rise to the modern world.
Read MoreGnomon by Nick Harkaway
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Firmly in the fantastic, this is a big, bristlingly detailed science fiction thriller whose plots thread and fold back upon themselves.
Read MoreThe Weight of an Infinite Sky by Carrie La Seur
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A soft-spoken and convincingly wise novel set in the rural vastness of Montana, ambitiously patterned on Hamlet.
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace is adapted into a lavish TV series.
Read MoreBlood Fury by J. R. Ward
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In J. R. Ward's latest “Black Dagger” volume, sheet-scorching shenanigans very nearly take a back seat to meaningful relationships. Are our favorite warrior-vampires becoming … sensitive?
Read MoreThe Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
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In C.J. Tudor's much-hyped debut thriller, a mysterious figure in 2016 is using the secret cryptogram-language devised by a group of misfit kids back in 1986.
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