Ann PatchettSomewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne...

Lionel Shriver For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed high-end cabinetmaker, now spurns the “toxic” dishes that he’d savored through their courtship, and...

Leila Aboulela Salma, Moni and Iman are embarking on a road trip to the highlands to pay homage to Lady Evelyn Cobbold, the first British woman convert to Islam to...

Monica Ali Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud and heat of...

Niall Williams A beautiful and moving novel about a young boy’s journey from childhood to adulthood from the bestselling author of Four Letters of Love Niall Williams draws us into...

Karl Ove Knausgard Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions...

Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye is one of Margaret Atwood's most intriguing novels, a ruminative, symbol-laced, and deceptively loose book that encompasses many of the concerns of her earlier works, compounding them...

Carlos Fuentes Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City," the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to...

Penelope Lively Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved with the new face of the city, while haunted by earlier times of destruction and loss in its history. Although he...

Lucinda Rosenfeld Named one of the Best Books of 2017 by the Philadelphia Inquirer : All hell breaks loose in the liberal bubble when a mother's life spirals out of...

Dianne Warren Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town -- the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people -- and it's easy to imagine that nothing happens on...

Anat Pick Simone Weil once wrote that "the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence," establishing a relationship between vulnerability, beauty, and existence transcending...