The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionMegan's ReviewsThis continues to be one of my favorite books. It incorporates all the best that life has to offer within the context of a bourgeois...
View ArticleSilence for the Dead by Simone St. James
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionKat's ReviewsPenguinHave you ever watched an episode of Downton Abbey and found yourself wishing a ghost or two would liven the place up? Then you...
View ArticleThe Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionLouise's ReviewsMacMillanI was captivated by Jackson's writing style from start to finish. He deftly weaves hard truths and murky beauties together,...
View ArticleFever by Mary Beth Keane
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionClytia's ReviewsSimon&SchusterThis is a bold and compassionate story about the woman known as Typhoid Mary. In this telling, Mary Mallon is a...
View ArticleDear Life by Alice Munro
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionRico's ReviewsRandomHouseThe very deserving recipient of last year’s Nobel Prize for Literature delivers another beautiful and heartbreaking...
View ArticleA Marker to Measure Drift by Alexander Maksik
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionMelinda's ReviewsRandomHouse In writing immediate and stripped to its necessity, Maksik gives us Jacqueline, an unknown woman, homeless and bereft,...
View ArticleChildren of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionNici's ReviewsSimon&SchusterBrave and exceptional, this incredible novel is set in post-revolutionary Iran and details three generations of...
View ArticleFrances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionMelinda's ReviewsHoughtonMifflin Inspired by the friendship of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell, this novel imagines two new characters and...
View ArticleThe Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionJax's ReviewsSimon&SchusterThis is Austen’s Pride & Prejudice as you’ve never seen it before! Lizzy’s a grad student with a full course...
View ArticleDirty Love by Andre Dubus III
Paperback Fiction Recommendations, Summer 2014FictionKat's ReviewsW. W. Norton & CompanyAndre Dubus III writes my kind of summer reads. His latest, a collection of linked novellas, delves into the...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....