Gunter GrassTHE BOOK: 'Funny, macabre, disgusting, blasphemous, pathetic, horrifying, erotic, it is an endless delirium, an outrageous phantasmagoria in which dustfrom Goethe, Hans Andersen, Swift, Rabelais, Joyce, Aristophanes and Rochester...

Lynda Cohen LoigmanBrooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an...

Michael DorrisMichael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship....

Good Soldier Svejk And His Fortunes In The World(The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War #1-4)Jaroslav HasekIn The Good Soldier Švejk, celebrated Czech writer and...

Julian FellowesDamian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but...

Isabel AllendeBorn into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the...

Steve Berry   Aleksandr Zorin is a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered into an intense hatred of the United States.Ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone learns...

Ronald H BalsonFrom Nazi-occupied Poland to a Chicago courtroom Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of...

Esi EdugyanWashington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be...

Leslie Epstein   This 1979 classic tells the darkly humorous story of I.C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat,...

Michael PalmerDr. Abby Dolan was on the fast track at a major San Francisco hospital when she made a critical choice: to follow her fiance, Josh Wyler, to the picturesque...

Rachel RhysLondon 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb.Out of the blue, she receives a solicitor’s letter. A wealthy stranger...