INTENSELY READABLE HISTORY of four lives linked by the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials. Brilliant, wise. B PLUS

EAST WEST STREET: ON THE ORIGINS OF “GENOCIDE” AND “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY”
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2016

1914 BLOCKBUSTER BY Harold Bell Wright has some interesting stuff about old California amid lots of moralizing.

THE EYES OF THE WORLD
(Project Gutenberg)
1914

HIGH-ENERGY SUPERNATURAL THRILLER pits super-powered secret agents against creepy horrors. Lots of fun! B PLUS

STILETTO
Little, Brown and Company
2016

A RESTLESS NEBRASKA MAN finds purpose while serving in World War I; 1923 Pulitzer winner still tugs heartstrings.

ONE OF OURS
A. A. Knopf
1922

A VERY ENGLISH FANTASY blends the world of 1920s Oxford with the oldest legends of pre-Roman Britain. Wow! B PLUS

THE WOLF IN THE ATTIC
Solaris
2016

A LOVE LETTER TO LATIN, and to learning new things after fifty, is also a charmingly frank memoir. B PLUS

LIVING WITH A DEAD LANGUAGE: MY ROMANCE WITH LATIN
Penguin Publishing Group
2016

1927 PULITZER PRIZE novel tells the story of a New England family imprisoned by its traditions. Dated but effective.

EARLY AUTUMN: A STORY OF A LADY
Wooster Book Co.
2000

AN UNFLINCHINGLY HONEST MEMOIR of life with quadriplegia combines raw personal experience, cultural theory. A MINUS

A BODY, UNDONE : LIVING ON AFTER GREAT PAIN
New York University Press
2016

NEW YORK’S ART scene in 1980 is the setting for this richly textured novel (with a touch of magic realism). SOLID B

TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980
Gallery/Scout Press
2016

RUSSIAN JEWISH EMIGRÉ finds wealth in 19th century America, but not the happiness he seeks. 1917 smash still stuns.

THE RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY
Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
1993