The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian (Crown)
A gripping paranormal thriller set in a remote New England town.
— Publishers Weekly
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
In this, 11-year-old narrator Michael and his divorced mother share meals and the company of others as they journey from Sri Lanka to England.
— Barnes & Noble
Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos (Morrow)
A stimulating if baggy story of friendship.
— Publishers Weekly
The Dovekeepers: A Novel by Alice Hoffman (Scribner)
Almost too dense to bear, Hoffman’s 23rd novel is brimming with doom, based on the story of the mass suicide of Jewish Zealots at Masada.
— Publishers Weekly
Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, by William Kennedy (Viking)
Kennedy’s journalistic training is manifest in a clear, sure voice that swiftly guides the reader through a rich, multilayered, refreshingly old-school narrative.
— Publishers Weekly
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (W.W. Norton)
A breathtaking work that will surprise you; highly recommended.
— Library Journal
Nonfiction
George Harrison: Living in the Material World by Olivia Harrison (Abrams)
The Beatle’s wife revives her soulmate again, bringing the “quiet Beatle” to us through his personal archive of photographs, letters, diaries and other memorabilia.
— Barnes & Noble
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir, by John Paul Stevens (Little, Brown)
An “unprecedented and historically significant look at the highest court in the United States. — From the publisher
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster)
Rin Tin Tin was less a pet than a national institution and an international icon.
— Barnes & Noble
