Riverhead Books
The Books of Jacob
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In mid-18th century Poland, a messianic figure emerges in a small Jewish community. It says something about this book that this character ...Read Review
Matrix: A Novel
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England, 1158, and young ‘Marie who comes from France’ rides through a cold, damp valley towards the royal abbey where she has been appointed ...Read Review
Daughter of Black Lake: A Novel
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Britain, first century AD. Hobble lives in a secluded community. Years ago, her grandfather and uncles went off to battle the invading Romans, ...Read Review
The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett’s second novel, a national bestseller, deserves all the attention it’s been getting. Spanning over three decades, from the Jim ...Read Review
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
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In 23 loosely connected short stories, this time-fluid novel weaves in and out of people’s lives, around and through time from the 19th ...Read Review
Deacon King Kong
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This novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project called the Cause in 1969. The eponymous protagonist (also called Sportcoat), a widowed alcoholic and ...Read Review
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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Sam and Lucy are at one of life’s terrible crossroads: their father has just died, with their mother gone before. The orphans, ...Read Review
City of Girls
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The heroine of Gilbert’s bold, zesty historical novel couldn’t be more different from The Signature of All Things’ intellectual Alma Whittaker, ...Read Review
The Fair Fight
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The Fair Fight is, I think, just about the most well-written novel I have read in five years. The depiction of the situation ...Read Review
The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy
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In 1320, the Inquisition asked Grazida Lizier, a young widow from Montaillou, France, to testify about her views of God and Satan, as well ...Read Review
