Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries; A Novel (New York: Little, Brown, 2013) ("'But the deed is binding,' Anna said again. 'It has to be.' Mr. Fellowes smiled, 'I'm afraid the law doesn't quite work that way. Think on this. I could write you a check right now for a million pounds, but that doesn't mean you're a million pounds up, does it, if I've nothing in my pocket, and nobody to act as my surety? Money always has to come out of someone's pocket, and if everyone's pockets are are empty ... well, that's that, no matter what anyone might claim'" Id. at 578.).
Teju Cole, Every Day Is For the Thief: Fiction (New York: Random House, 2014).
Teju Cole, Open City: A Novel (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012) ("You have to set yourself a challenge, and you must find a way to meet it exactly, whether it is a parachute, or a dive form a cliff, or sitting perfectly still for an hour, and you must accomplish it in a beautiful way, of course." Id. at 197.).
Louise Erdrich, The Round House: A Novel (New York: Harper, 2012).
Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist: A Novel (New York: New York Review Books, 2013) (see blog post of 4/18/2014).
Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal, introduced by Ken Follett, Illustrated by Tatsuro Kiuchi (London: The Folio Society, 2014).
Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End, introduction by Philip Hensher, illustrated by James Albon (London: The Folio Society, 2014) ("'But one has to keep on going. . . . Principles are like a skeleton map of a country--you know whether you're going east or north.'" Id. at 148.).
Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things: A Novel (New York: Viking, 2013) ("'What are we to do, then, with our suffering?' Alma asked. This was not a question Alma would ever have posed to a minister, or a philosopher, or a poet, but she was curious--desperate, even--to hear an answer from Hanneke de Groot. 'Well, child, you may do whatever you like with your suffering,' Hanneke said mildly. 'It belongs to you. But I shall tell you what I do with mine. I grasp it by the small hairs, I cast it to the ground, and I grind it under the heel of my boot. I suggest you learn to do the same'." Id. at 158.).
Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings: A Novel (New York: Viking, 2014) ("I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to." Id. at 295.).
Phil Klay, Redeployment (New York: The Penguin Press, 2014) (See Dexter Filkins, "The Long Road Home," NYT BookReview, Sunday, 3/9/2014.).
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2013).
Valerie Martin, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste: A Novel (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014).
Peter Matthiessen, In Paradise: A Novel (New York: Riverhead Books, 2014) (see Dona Rifkind, "Let Us Remember," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/27/2014.).
Nicole Mones, Night in Shanghai: A Novel (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014).
Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories (New York: Knopf, 2014) (See David Gates, "Life Unleashed," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/23/2014.).
B. J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (New York: Knopf, 2014) (See Teddy Wayne, "Out of Character," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/23/2014.).
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge: A Novel (New York: The Penguin Press, 2013).
Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden, with a Foreword by Susan Sontag (New York: Grove Press, 1955, 1994).
Diane Setterfield, Bellman & Black: A Novel (New York: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2013).
