Pantheon
The O’Briens
Behrens follows up his Governor General’s award-winning Law of Dreams with a multi-generational family saga. At the turn of the…
Watergate
When a reader chooses to delve into the political historical quagmire that surrounded the Watergate scandal, there are a plethora…
Nanjing Requiem
Many accounts have been previously written about this most horrendous historical event, better known as the Rape of Nanking, a…
Devil’s Dream
Certainly one of the most curious events in historical fiction in decades is the decision by a writer to pen…
Ransom
Editors' choice
Ransom is a diamond of a novel, tiny but flawless, prose so pared away and carefully constructed that however many…
Lambrusco
Lucia Fantini, legendary singer and widow of Aldo, whose village restaurant was her personal stage, secretly helps her son’s…
Measuring the World
On a prosaic level—and this novel is anything but prosaic—this is the story of two contrasting figures of the German…
Measuring the World
With its lively translation, Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World tells the parallel stories of two scientists who were child prodigies,…
A Million Nightingales
Straight takes readers back to 19th-century Louisiana sugar cane plantations in a heartbreaking story of a mixed-race slave and…
The Stone That the Builder Refused
This tome answers the question of how a former slave defeated Napoleon. The title is from scripture, “The stone that…
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