• Bearskin: A Novel
  • Author: James A McLaughlin
  • Publisher: Ecco

  • "Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling - filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin's writing had me doing just that."...

  • French Exit: A Novel
  • Author: Patrick deWitt
  • Publisher: Ecco

  • From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.

    Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal...

  • The Winter Soldier
  • Author: Daniel Mason
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
  • By the international bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a sweeping and unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War.

    Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales...
  • The Silence of the Girls: A Novel
  • Author: PAT BARKER
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan...
  • The Devoted: A Novel
  • Author: Blair Hurley
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

  • A spellbinding confession of what it means to abandon one life for another, The Devoted asks what it takes, and what you'll sacrifice, to find enlightenment.

    Nicole Hennessy's life revolves around her Zen practice at the Boston Zendo, seeking solace in the tenets of Buddhism to the chagrin of her Irish Catholic...

  • Sight: A Novel
  • Author: Jessie Greengrass
  • Publisher: Hogarth
  • The remarkable first novel from award-winning British writer, Jessie Greengrass'It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become...
  • The Bucket List: A Novel
  • Author: Georgia Clark
  • Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
  • From the author of the critically acclaimed "lively and engrossing parable for women of all generations" (Harper's Bazaar) The Regulars­ comes a deeply funny and thoughtful tale of a young woman who, after discovering she has the breast cancer gene, embarks on an unforgettable bucket list...
  • So Much Life Left Over: A Novel
  • Author: LOUIS DE BERNIERES
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two world wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world--and the selves--left to them in the wake of World War I.

    They were inseparable childhood...
  • Let Me Be Like Water
  • Author: S K PERRY
  • Publisher: Melville House
  • 'Intimate, ruthless, tender: this book is like medicine for the soul.' Nina George, author of The Little Paris BookshopA beautifully poignant and poetic debut about love, loss, friendship, and ultimately, starting over.Twenty-something Holly has moved to Brighton to escape. But now that she's here, sitting on a bench,...
  • Ordinary People: A Novel
  • Author: Diana Evans
  • Publisher: Liveright

  • Evoking the sharp insight of Little Fires Everywhere and the sweep of NW, an incisive portrait of the bliss and torment of domestic love.

    Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post) , Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling...