WILD DEPRESSION-ERA PICARESQUE follows a larger-than-life hero across the US in a series of mad adventures. B PLUS

BONUS MAN
None
2015

THE ULTIMATE NOIR SETTING: Hell itself! Fiendishly clever, relentlessly grim mystery set in a bleak afterlife. B PLUS

DEVILS DETECTIVE A NOVEL
BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL
2015

POST-SINGULARITY NOIR THRILLER follows a desperate man’s search for his android love. Dark, clever SF. B PLUS

LOVE IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION
Thomas Dunne Books
2015

THE QUEST FOR ATLANTIS! Thoroughly entertaining book follows some of today’s seekers for a lost civilization. B PLUS

MEET ME IN ATLANTIS
Penguin Group USA
2015

THE STRANGER-THAN-FICTION STORY of how three 20-something stoners became caught up in arms dealing. Chutzpah! B PLUS

ARMS AND THE DUDES : HOW THREE STONERS FROM MIAMI BEACH BECAME THE MOST UNLIKELY GUNRUNNERS IN HISTORY
Simon & Schuster
2015

CLEVER POSTMODERN NOIR, both a witty homage to the detective canon and a fascinating mystery in its own right. B PLUS

AN EXAGGERATED MURDER
Melville House Publishing
2015

THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING SPOOF of the “evil genius” villains of spy movies. Sharply written, lots of fun. B PLUS

GLOBAL DOMINATION FOR BEGINNERS
None
2015

FRESH, UNEXPECTEDLY ENGAGING memoir from a writer who, at age 26, discovered she had a hole in her brain. B PLUS

HEAD CASE
Henry Holt & Company
2015

TAUT POST-APOCALYPTIC THRILLER follows a determined group of young people fighting to survive a brutal world. B PLUS

AS THE ASH FELL
None
2015

FAR-RANGING, QUIRKY NON-FICTION combines memoir and journalism to raise questions of masculinity, identity. B PLUS

I AM SORRY TO THINK I HAVE RAISED A TIMID SON
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
2015