Knopf
Crossers
Crossers is a very satisfying read that follows three generations of a family while exposing the realities of border issues…
Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim
This is historical fiction split between 13th-century England and 21st-century America. Anne Rice, known for her Vampire Chronicles and her…
Blood’s a Rover
This concludes the Underworld USA Trilogy, which began with American Tabloid and continued through The Cold Six Thousand. Flashbacks and…
The Missing
Sam Simoneaux arrived in France for the Great War just in time to clean up after the Germans. Not a…
Lark and Termite
Set in 1950s Virginia, Lark and Termite is a suspenseful novel focusing on a cast of characters affected by love,…
The Children’s Book
Editors' choice
This long-awaited novel, A.S. Byatt’s first since 2001, is extraordinarily difficult to encapsulate and to do full justice within the…
Sunnyside
Editors' choice
Gold’s panoramic novel of World War I and early Hollywood opens with a mass delusion: film actor Charlie Chaplin is…
Voices of the Desert
A retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, Nélida Piñon’s Voices of the Desert is concerned not with the tales…
A Monster’s Note
What would it mean if Mary Shelley’s monster had been real? What implications would there be for her story, what…
A Brief History of Montmaray
The island kingdom of Montmaray is fictitious. Its royal house never existed. But everything else about this delightful historical novel…
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