Stieg Larsson   The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium #3)   Lisbeth Salander--the heart of Larsson's two previous novels--is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of...

Joanna TrollopeJulia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. Julia organises her husband Hugh and their cherubic twins with ruthless efficiency...

Yael HedayaThe men, women, and even animals in this collection live at the mercy of their hearts. Young and old, on two legs or four, they grope for love and...

Johnathan Safran Foer With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may...

Mark AlpertPhysicist Mark Alpert's debut novel is a fast-paced thriller in which a man finds himself caught in the middle of a race to find a scientific theory. It was...

Philippa Gregory   Earthly Joys (Tradescant #1)   Another sweeping novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author…A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of...

Ha JinSince the appearance of his first book of stories in English, Ha Jin has won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and garnered comparisons to Dickens, Balzac,...

Audrey NiffeneggerSix years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery...

Penelope Fizgerald   Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for...

Michael TonerPoliticians are mostly villains, right? Isn't it astonishing how so many snake-oil sellers, log-rollers, fornicators and footpads manage everywhere to worm their way into elected office?But let's dream a...

Anita Shreve   Traces the extraordinary resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime. Seen through the eyes of young Linda Fallon...

Paul Auster Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories,...