AN ALIEN WARRIOR POSSESSES the body of a sadsack techie schlub; many adventures ensue. Wildly inventive SF! A MINUS

THE LIVES OF TAO
Angry Robot
2013

WILD, ONLY-IN-MIAMI comic caper from the inimitable Dave Barry. Lots of action, laughs in this fun #beachread. B PLUS

INSANE CITY
Putnam Adult
2013

FASCINATING TRUE CRIME story of a brilliant academic whose career was cut short by his high-profile felonies. B PLUS

THE STRANGE CASE OF THE MAD PROFESSOR : A TRUE TALE OF ENDANGERED SPECIES, ILLEGAL DRUGS, AND ATTEMPTED MURDER
Lyons Press
2013

FASCINATING TRUE CRIME story of a brilliant academic whose career was cut short by his high-profile felonies.

LIFE WITH HOARDING PARENTS, and its impact on a writer’s psyche, told with compassion, frankness, and love. SOLID B

COMING CLEAN
New Harvest
2014

LIFE WITH HOARDING PARENTS, and its impact on a writer’s psyche, told with compassion, frankness, and love.

THE END OF A MARRIAGE, explored in beautiful prose, but with so little candor that the memoir falls flat. B MINUS

AFTERMATH: ON MARRIAGE AND SEPARATION
Picador
2013

INTRIGUING HISTORICAL NOVEL combines a lively evocation of 1920s New York with psychological twists and turns. B PLUS

THE OTHER TYPIST
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
2013

BIG, MYTHIC HORROR from Joe Hill, full of Americana, local color, a little sardonic humor. Scary #beachread! B PLUS

NOS4A2
William Morrow
2013

LOSING 180 POUNDS: how it changed one woman’s life for good (and ill). Devastatingly honest, quirky memoir. B PLUS

STRANGER HERE : HOW WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY TRANSFORMED MY BODY AND MESSED WITH MY HEAD
Seal Press (CA)
2013