Q3-Q4 2013 Book List Update

See earlier posts for more books recommended by members of my book club and other friends. Click on the name of a book for a summary and/or comments.

various titles, Deborah Crombie
various titles, Julia Spencer-Fleming
various titles, Elizabeth George
various titles, Dennis Lehane
A Death In Summer, John Banville writing as Benjamin Black
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
The Partner Track, Helen Wan
Dirty Love, Andre Dubus III
A Death In the Lucky Holiday Hotel, Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
various titles, Philip Kerr
Havana Nocturne, T. J. English
The Signature Of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
At Night We Walk In Circles, Daniel Alarcon
The Obituary Writer, Ann Hood
An Available Man, Hilma Wolitzer
Defending Jacob, William Landay
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Dinaw Mengestu
Carry The One, Carol Anshaw
The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty
Bruno, Chief of Police, Martin Walker
Case Histories: A Novel, Kate Atkinson
And The Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
The Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra

Q2 2013 Book List Update

See earlier posts for more books recommended by members of my book club and other friends. Click on the name of a book for a summary and/or comments.

Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Lionel Asbo, Martin Amis
[various titles], Jo Nesbo
[various titles], Susan Hill
Hollywood, Gore Vidal
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
May We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes
The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson
The Obituary Writer, Ann Hood
Six Years, Harlan Coben
Tenth of December: Stories, George Saunders
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler

1Q 2013 Book List Update

See earlier posts for more books recommended by members of my book club and other friends. Click on the name of a book for a summary and/or comments.

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't, Nate Silver
Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff
Turn of Mind, Alice LaPlante
The Accursed, Joyce Carol Oates
The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout
At Last, Edward St. Aubyn
Desperate Characters, Paula Fox
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, Jan-Philipp Sendker
Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Foods, Obesity, and Disease, Robert Lustig
Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love, David Talbot
The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean