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

GLORIOUSLY INTRICATE THRILLER sits beautifully at the intersection of Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates. A MINUS

BROKEN RIVER (PAPERBACK)
Graywolf Press
2017

A POET EXPLORES TAXIDERMY, family history, death, and love in a dazzling kaleidoscope of short essays. A MINUS

AN ARRANGEMENT OF SKIN: ESSAYS (HARDCOVER)
Counterpoint LLC
2017

DREAMLIKE, POETIC CHINESE novel set in a fantastic landscape haunted by ghosts, snow leopards, memories. A MINUS

FRONTIER
Open Letter Books
2017

COMPELLING PORTRAIT OF A PRICKLY, insightful woman in a low-key crisis, told in a wonderful mosaic style. A MINUS

ALL GROWN UP (HARDCOVER)
Houghton Mifflin
2017

CHILLING DEEP-SPACE MYSTERY: six cloned crew members on a generation starship must solve their own murders. A MINUS

SIX WAKES
Orbit
2017

PHILIP LEVINE’S PASSIONATE writing about poetry is a moving legacy and a testimony to the power of language. A MINUS

MY LOST POETS: A LIFE IN POETRY (HARDCOVER)
Knopf Publishing Group
2016

WARM-HEARTED BUT INCISIVE satire set in a town divided between past and future, comfort and exploration. A MINUS

CHARMED PARTICLES
Dzanc Books
2015

EFFORTLESSLY HEARTBREAKING MEMOIR of a hardscrabble childhood spent in the chaos of World War II Russia. A MINUS

THE GIRL FROM THE METROPOL HOTEL: GROWING UP IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA (PAPERBACK)
Penguin Books
2017

COMIC SCIENCE-FICTION THRILLER has a wonderfully complex plot, a believably dystopian near-future. A MINUS

THE BIG SHEEP
Thomas Dunne Books
2016