SEARING, INTENSE NOVEL traces the complicated friendship between two women artists in New York. Unforgettable. SOLID A

TOXICOLOGY
Viking Adult
2011

FLUFFY ROMP CENTERS around hard-luck 40-something New York socialites turned high-class call girls; silly fun. SOLID B

THE BEST LAID PLANS
Random House Publishing Group
2011

PROVOCATIVE, SHARP BOOK by French medieval historian challenges readers to look beyond the conventional wisdom.

OLIVER SACKS CONSIDERS the neurology of visual crises with clarity, compassion, and a moving personal account.

MEDICAL/LEGAL THRILLER’S timely Big Pharma theme, vivid courtroom detail are sadly undermined by clunky prose.

QUIET, POWERFUL, POETIC, VIVID novel follows four Minnesota Gen Xer friends from junior high through their 30s.

WACKY META-MYSTERY is also a parody of dysfunctional collaborations, authors undermining each other. Good fun!

THOUGHTFUL BIOGRAPHY of the complex and troubled chess prodigy Bobby Fischer combines sympathy with insight.

MOODY, PICARESQUE TALE of disillusion, politics, finance, and love set against Bolivia’s 2005 elections.

PIONEERING AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOCKEY shares her inspiring story of facing mental illness, addiction, homelessness.