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1. Leaving Time: A Novel
Jodi Picoult · Ballantine Books
Pages: 450
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThroughout her blockbuster career, Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that "not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us" (The Boston Globe) . Now,... |
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2. Love Me Back: A Novel
Merritt Tierce · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From 5 Under 35 honoree and Rona Jaffe Award-winner comes an urgent, intensely visceral debut novel about a young waitress whose downward spiral is narrated in electric proseMarie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites... |
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3. The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" (Wall Street Journal) , "unputdownable" (The Washington Post) , "a delicious hothouse of a novel" (USA Today) , "effortless" (The Economist) , "seductive" (Vanity... |
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4. Nora Webster: A Novel
Colm Toibin · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 373
Format: Hardcover
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From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, the magnificent, instant New York Times bestselling novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for hope.Set in Wexford,... |
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5. On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss · Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best SellerA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the YearA Facebook Year of Books SelectionOne of the Best Books of the Year National Book Critics Circle Award finalist The New York Times Book Review Top 10 Entertainment... |
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6. Good Grief: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village
Ellen Stimson · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An Endless Vacation Becomes a Way of Life! One vacation changed everything. Ellen Stimson and her husband had such a wonderful time in Vermont that they wondered what living there would really be like. “What if we stayed here . . . forever?” So began the series of adventures... |
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7. A Sudden Light: A Novel
Garth Stein · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain presents a long-awaited new novel in which a boy trying to save his parents' marriage uncovers a vast legacy of family secrets.In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built... |
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8. Some Luck
Jane Smiley · Random House Inc
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel - the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America. On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values... |
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9. The Fall: A father's memoir in 424 steps
Diogo Mainardi · Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, alongside his father through the streets of Venice, the city where a medical mishap during Tito's birth left him with Cerebral... |
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10. Lila: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 261
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardNational Book Award FinalistA new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood... |
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11. Man V. Nature: Stories
Diane Cook · Harper; Stated First Edition, 1st printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of the YearBoston Globe's "Best Fiction of 2014"Roxane Gay's Top Ten Books of the Year An Amazon Best Short Story Collection of 2014An iBook Best of 2014 A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories which illuminates... |
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12. Thrown
Kerry Howley · Sarabande Books
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
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In this darkly funny work of literary nonfiction, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters - one a young prodigy, the other an aging journeyman. Acclaimed essayist Kerry Howley follows these men for three years through the bloody world of mixed martial... |
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13. How to Build a Girl: A Novel
Caitlin Moran · Harper; First U.S. Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.What do you do in your teenage years when you realize... |
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14. The High Divide: A Novel
Lin Enger · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
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"A deeply moving, gripping novel about one man's quest for redemption and his family's determination to learn the truth . . . Layered with meaning, this remarkable novel deserves to be read more than once. The High Divide proves Enger's chops as a masterful storyteller."... |
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16. Night Blindness: A Novel
Susan Strecker · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A future as bright as the stars above the Connecticut shore lay before Jensen Reilly and her high school sweetheart Ryder until the terrible events of an October night left Jensen running from her family and her first love Over the years that followed Jensen buried her painful past and now married... |
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17. Gutenberg's Apprentice: A Novel
Alix Christie · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling literary debut that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval Germany - a story of invention, intrigue, and betrayal, rich in atmosphere and historical detail, told through the lives of the three men who made it possible.Youthful,... |
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18. Wolf in White Van: A Novel
John Darnielle · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award in fictionWinner of the 2015 Alex Award for adult books with special appeal for young adultsWelcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen,... |
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19. A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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20. Florence Gordon
Brian Morton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate,... |
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