COMPELLING DYSTOPIAN FUTURE noir focuses on rebels scratching out a living without mandated brain implants.

INTRIGUING NEAPOLITAN NOIR mystery features an unlikely team of detectives solving a complex murder case. B PLUS

THREE, IMPERFECT NUMBER
Europa Editions, Incorporated
2013

WELL-REASONED POLEMIC FROM Julia Serano on the need for more inclusivity in feminist and queer activism. B PLUS

EXCLUDED
Seal Press
2013

INDIA’S “PINK GANG,” a grassroots women’s advocacy and self-help group, profiled in this inspiring book. B PLUS

PINK SARI REVOLUTION: A TALE OF WOMEN AND POWER IN INDIA
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
2013

CAPTURED BY THE CONFEDERACY, two New York reporters write from Civil War prisons. History reads like a novel! B PLUS

JUNIUS AND ALBERT’S ADVENTURES IN THE CONFEDERACY : A CIVIL WAR ODYSSEY
PublicAffairs
2013

A GRAND, EXTRAVAGANT LOVE letter to Dickens, to fine art, to New York, to the intricacies of the human heart. B PLUS

THE GOLDFINCH
Little
2013

EXISTENTIAL DETECTIVE CLAIRE DEWITT investigates an old flame’s death in this philosophical California noir. B PLUS

CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE BOHEMIAN HIGHWAY
Mariner Books
2014

HAUNTING, BLEAK PORTRAIT of a young Scottish woman spending her life in custody. Devastating first novel. B PLUS

THE PANOPTICON
Hogarth
2013

LOVELY, ELEGAIC BIOGRAPHICAL novel follows the great Noel Coward through his last days at his Jamaica retreat. B PLUS

FIREFLY
Europa Editions
2013

A WILD, CRAZY LOVE in youth, revisited as a wiser friendship fifteen years later, captured in elegant detail. B PLUS

MY EDUCATION
Viking Books
2013