Private Life : a Novel
The Washington Post – Marie Arana Smiley's virtuosity should be no surprise to us. She has proven herself in a dozen wildly different books?But Private Life is a quantum leap for this author, a book that?burrows deep into the psyche and stays. It kept me up all night, long after I'd finished it, remembering the […]
The Poisoned King
My Life Asa Fake
A Mercy
The Washington Post – Ron Charles: ?a spellbinding companion to Beloved?Her old themes rise up in A Mercy like a fever dream: the horrible sacrifice a mother makes to protect her child, the deadly vanity of benevolent slaveholders, the abandonment of a past too painful to remember. But this is a smaller, more delicate novel, […]
The Art Thief
The Private Patient
Andrea Y. Griffith – Library Journal: A new P.D. James novel feels as if a complex and lovely gift has been bestowed upon the reader. With this 14th novel featuring Adam Dalgliesh, there is a definite sense of closure. Investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrives at the beautiful Cheverell Manor in Dorset, owned by famous plastic […]
Eagle and Birds of Prey
Somebody’s Fool
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Washington Post – Patrick Anderson: ?this remarkable first novel by the Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson?has been a huge bestseller in Europe and will be one here if readers are looking for an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller that is variously a serial-killer saga, a search for a missing person and an informed glimpse […]
Brisingr, Or, The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular
The Washington Post – David Anthony Durham: As an adult, I read Brisingr with a mixture of admiration for Paolini's accomplishments and an awareness of the book's flaws, which prevented me from being fully won over. But that's hardly a slight. Had I read this novel when I was 13, it would have kept me […]