Tag Archives: literary book
Review: The Antidote by Karen Russell
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town The … Continue reading
Review: The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: When Phyl, a young literature graduate, moves back home with her parents, she soon finds herself frustrated by the narrow horizons of English country life. As for her plans of becoming a writer, those … Continue reading
Review: The Houseguest by Thomas Berger
Buy it here: Amazon Synopsis: Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (father Doug; wife Audrey; son Bobby; and daughter-in-law Lydia) have gotten used to his polite manners and gourmet breakfasts. But one morning at the Graveses’ summer home, … Continue reading
Review: The Colony by Annika Norlin
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A mega best-seller in Sweden, with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway, Annika Norlin’s debut novel The Colony is the biggest Swedish literary phenomenon since Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called … Continue reading
Review: Playworld by Adam Ross
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut (“A brilliant, powerful, and … Continue reading
Review: Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face … Continue reading
Review: Authority (Southern Reach #2) by Jeff VanderMeer
Buy it here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all … Continue reading
Review: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of the most gifted authors of her generation” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a … Continue reading
Review: Fathers and Fugitives by S.J. Naude
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An inventive and emotionally charged novel about fatherhood and family, loyalty and betrayal, inheritance and belonging. Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but … Continue reading
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