AMBITIOUS HISTORICAL THRILLER begins with interesting premise, but tries too hard and ends up over the top.

INSIDE 2009’S MEGA-SCANDAL of corruption, bribery, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, organ trading in New Jersey.

COMPLEX, INTRIGUING EXPERIMENTAL novel about family and memory traces the lines between sanity and madness.

SPRAWLING BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL centers on gentleman gambler, gunslinger Doc Holliday; Wyatt Earp steals the book.

GRIM NEAR-FUTURE APOCALYPSE centers around a youth movement poised between anarchy and fascism.  Chilling.

EPIC, BOOKISH FANTASY blends witches, vampires, medieval history, romance in an engrossing ladycentric read.

THE FUNNIEST, MOST TOUCHING memoir about love and marriage and parenthood and kidney transplants ever written.

CAUSTIC AND WITTY as ever, Roseanne Barr’s tidbits of grandmotherly wisdom and snark from her Hawai’i nut farm.

ACERBIC, ICONOCLASTIC, WITTY take on free-market economists’ dogmas from a University of Cambridge economist.

AMUSING COMPENDIUM of random information, curated by NPR’s librarian, may be every nerd’s favorite beach read!