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by Anton Hur
Published Jul 2025
Read ReviewsNegotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology?
by Scott Alexander Howard
Published Feb 2025
Read ReviewsFor fans of David Mitchell, Ruth Ozeki, and Kazuo Ishiguro, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.
by Sarah Gailey
Published May 2022
Read ReviewsI'm embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married.
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsKlara and the Sun is a magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.
by Dan Vyleta
Published Jun 2017
Read Reviews"Smoke is an addictive combination of thriller, fantasy, and historical novel, with a dash of horror. It's chilling and complex and amazingly imaginative." - Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness
by Anna Hope
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsA searing novel of forbidden love on the Yorkshire moors from the author of the critically acclaimed debut Wake
by Susan Nussbaum
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsThe powerful and inspiring debut from Susan Nussbaum invites us into a landscape populated with young people whose lives have been irreversibly changed by misfortune but whose voices resound with resilience, courage, and humor.
by Kat Zhang
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsIn this emotionally haunting debut from Kat Zhang, Eva and Addie are two souls sharing one body…and a dangerous secret.
by Jo Walton
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsIn an alternate history, a radical group overthrew Churchill and made peace with Hitler. Now, eight years later at a country retreat, one of the group is murdered; and suspicion falls on the Jewish husband of one of their adult children.
by Harry Bruinius
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsCharts the little-known history of eugenics in America—a movement that began in the early twentieth century and resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 Americans.
by Sally Beauman
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsA dramatic, atmospheric novel in a grand storytelling tradition, The Sisters Mortland is beguiling, complex, hauntingly sad, and often dazzlingly funny. A tour de force of tales within tales, it sets the capstone on bestselling author Sally Beauman's literary career.
by Michael Cunningham
Published Apr 2006
Read Reviews"A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." --USA Today.
by Ian McEwan
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsAn astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
by Haruki Murakami
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA tour de force of metaphysical reality, powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy who runs away from home to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy, and an aging simpleton.
by Jodi Picoult
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsThe emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.
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