A UNIQUE FAMILY STORY, funny, poignant, surprising as hell. An astoundingly masterful novel. Just amazing! A MINUS

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES
A Marian Wood Book/Putnam
2013

GORGEOUS, POWERFUL NOVEL about language, translation, and the difficulties of love and loss. Lovely and rich. A MINUS

THE TRANSLATOR
Pegasus Books
2013

SAVAGE, BEAUTIFUL REIMAGINING of a 1612 English witch trial by the amazing Jeanette Winterson. Haunting! A MINUS

THE DAYLIGHT GATE
Grove Press
2013

FASCINATING TRUE STORY of a murder in 1800 New York; both Burr and Hamilton defended the accused at trial. A MINUS

DUEL WITH THE DEVIL: THE TRUE STORY OF HOW ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND AARON BURR TEAMED UP TO TAKE ON AMERICA’S FIRST SENSATIONAL MURDER MYSTERY
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
2013

TRIPPY, WILD, POETIC fantasia on singularities, time travel, multiverses, and what it means to be human. A MINUS

SELF-REFERENCE ENGINE
VIZ Media LLC
2013

GLORIOUS, WARM-HEARTED MEMOIR of food, love, and family from novelist Kate Christensen sparkles with joy. A MINUS

BLUE PLATE SPECIAL: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY APPETITES
Doubleday Books
2013

GRITTY BLUE-COLLAR MAGIC and the dream of hope for a broken city are the core of this hypnotic urban fantasy. A MINUS

MERMAID IN CHELSEA CREEK
McSweeney’s Books
2013

AN ALIEN WARRIOR POSSESSES the body of a sadsack techie schlub; many adventures ensue. Wildly inventive SF! A MINUS

THE LIVES OF TAO
Angry Robot
2013

DAZZLING, TOUCHING, BITTERSWEET, loving memoir of growing up at the epicenter of gay literary San Francisco. A MINUS

FAIRYLAND: A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
2013

A CHINESE POET AND DISSIDENT’S beautiful, wrenching memoir of his political imprisonment. Vivid, haunting. A MINUS

FOR A SONG AND A HUNDRED SONGS : A POET’S JOURNEY THROUGH A CHINESE PRISON
New Harvest
2013