PHYSICIST WERNER HEISENBERG’S life serves as the center point for an eloquent novel about purity and horror. B PLUS

THE PRINCIPLE (PAPERBACK)
Europa Editions
2017

A WHIRLWIND OF HEARTBREAKS disrupts a writer’s rich, unconventional life. Frank and thoughtful memoir. B PLUS

THE RULES DO NOT APPLY: A MEMOIR (HARDCOVER)
Random House
2017

A NIGERIAN EXPATRIATE CONTEMPLATES her own mortality, and her lifetime of memories. Gorgeous and touching. B PLUS

LIKE A MULE BRINGING ICE CREAM TO THE SUN
Cassava Republic Press
2017

23RD CENTURY THRILLER stylishly sets up a battle between augmented agents and fundamentalist fanatics. B PLUS

THE GENESIS SPHERE
Ben Chiappetta
2017

A WILD PHILOSOPHICAL SATIRE set in Argentina’s left-wing intellectual milieu is crazy, inspired, Nabokovian. B PLUS

SAVAGE THEORIES (HARDCOVER)
Soho Press
2017

RAW, BRUTALLY FRANK memoir from Sherman Alexis combines prose and poetry to tell his mother’s story. A MINUS

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME : A MEMOIR
Little Brown and Company
2017

INTERNATIONAL TECHNOTHRILLER PITS an elite network of assassins against the world’s intelligence agencies. B PLUS

CORPORATE ASSASSIN (SICARIIDAE BOOK 1)
Gus Mavencamp
2017

A GRITTY, RADIANT PICARESQUE tale of a fiercely determined Mexican migrant who loves books and boxing. B PLUS

THE GRINGO CHAMPION
Europa Editions
2017

BRILLIANT, ELECTRIFYING HYBRID memoir/cultural critique: Roxane Gay’s meditation on her (fat, Black) body. A MINUS

HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY (HARDCOVER)
Harper
2017

BRILLIANT, SAVAGE SATIRE of England in today’s Age of Avarice shines with vivid characterization, dry humor. A MINUS

NUMBER 11: A NOVEL
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2017