GORGEOUS EXISTENTIAL MYSTERY uses the death of a psychiatrist to explore questions of truth, love, identity. SOLID A

VIVIANE
New Press, The
2014

FOUR WORLD CITIES on key thresholds: East/West, tradition/modernity, heritage/globalism. Brilliant, complex! SOLID A

A HISTORY OF FUTURE CITIES
W. W. Norton & Company
2013

A MUST FOR BLACK HISTORY month: read this brilliant, bawdy, heartbreaking novel of slavery and rebellion. SOLID A

THE GOOD LORD BIRD
Riverhead Hardcover
2013

THE SMARTEST BOOK OF 2013 is this brilliant memoir from music’s Questlove (Ahmir Thompson). Full stop. SOLID A

MO’ META BLUES: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO QUESTLOVE
Grand Central Publishing
2013

EXTRAORDINARY, RIVETING NOVEL from the incomparable William Boyd: great historical fiction, great spy yarn.

NOVELIST JEANETTE WINTERSON’S lyrical memoir testifies to her faith in love despite her grueling childhood.

HEARTBREAKINGLY CANDID MEMOIR of dyslexia, surprising in its source: Pulitzer-winning poet Philip Schultz.

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

TOXICOLOGY
Viking Adult
2011

HEART-STOPPINGLY BEAUTIFUL, terrifying memoir of a writer’s Southern Gothic childhood, quest for the divine. SOLID A

HOUSE OF PRAYER NO. 2
Nan A. Talese
2011

OPENHEARTED, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN history of cancer looks at research, clinical advances, patients’ stories.