INSIDE THE WORLD OF hallucinations with Oliver Sacks, the Willy Wonka of the human brain. Fun, informative.

PLAYFUL, ABSORBING DISQUISITION on women as chefs, with lots of interviews, lots of chefs’ perspectives.

VIVID MASSACHUSETTS ATMOSPHERE, “townie”/”incomer” tensions, deftly captured in a tale of gossip and scandal.

A FATHER’S MEMOIR of his son’s experience of autism reflects their shared humor and bookish quirkiness.

PERFECTLY POISED BETWEEN nightmare and satire, this horror tale rips into the upscale parenting Zeitgeist.

A HORRIFYING CHILDHOOD OF desperate poverty and abuse in 1950s Dublin, vividly recalled.  Harsh, compelling.

THE COMPLICATED CHILDHOODS and eccentric adult lives of Charles Dickens’s nine children, engagingly related.

DREAMLIKE TALE OF an 1890s New Yorker in China, haunted by the ghost of his first love in a time of strife.

RAZOR-SHARP THRILLER TAKES on the supernatural, mean girls, and class divisions in the small-town South.

GRACEFUL COMEDY OF manners set in the insular world of the French old-money elite; crisply translated fun!