Will Chancellor, A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall: A Novel (New York: Harper, 2014) ("When the word art gives you a sinking feeling, what's left for you in the real world?" Id. at 299.).
Mark Costello, Big If: A Novel (New York: Norton, 2002).
Michel Faber, The Book of Strange Things: A Novel (London & New York: Hogarth, 2014) (Marcel Theroux, "Outer Limits," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 11/2/2014).
Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2015) (See Andrew O'Heir, "The Alchemist," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 3/8/2015.).
John Green, The Fault In Our Stars (New York: Dutton Books, 2012).
Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief: A Novel (New York: Atavist Books, 2014).
Thomas Keneally, The Daughters of Mars: A Novel (New York: Atria Books, 2012).
Thomas Keneally, Shame and the Captives: A Novel (New York: Atria Books, 2015) (See Gary Krist, "No Escape," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/19/2015)..
David Kirk, Child of Vengeance: A Novel (New York: Doubleday, 2013).
Jonathan Lethem, Lucky Alan and Other Stories (New York: Doubleday, 2015) (See Michael Greenberg, "Under the Surface," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/22/2015.).
Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel (London & New York: Hogarth, 2013).
Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (New York: Knopf, 2015) (From the bookjacket: "Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world--modern, postmodern, whatever world you think your are living in." "U., a 'corporate anthropologist,' is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape." Also see Jeff Turpentine, "Culture-Jamming Provocateur," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/22/2015.).
Ben Metcalf, Against the Country: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2015) (See Thad Ziolkowski, "Southern Grotesque," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 1/25/2015.).
David Mitchell, The Bone Clock: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2014) (See Alexandra Alter, "A Master of Many Universes," Books of the Time, NYT, Monday, 8/25/2014; and Pico Iyer, "Juggling Worlds," New York Times Book Review, Sunday, 8/31/2014.).
Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others: A Novel (New York: Norton, 2014).
Joyce Carol Oates, Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (New York: Ecco, 2014).
Joyce Carol Oates, The Sacrifice: A Novel (New York: Ecco, 2015) (See Roxane Gay, 'Warning Signs," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/1/2015.).
Richard Price (aka Harry Brandt), The Whites: A Novel (New York: Henry Holt, 2015) (See Michael Connelly, "Murder and the City," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/15/2015.).
Francine Prose, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 (New York: Harper, 2014) (See Edmund White, "Divine Decadence," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/20/2014.).
Norman Rush, Subtle Bodies: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2013).
Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests (New York: Riverhead Books, 2014) (See Carol Anshaw, "Behind Closed Doors," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 9/21/2014.).
Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2015) (See Rebecca Pepper Spinkler," You Can Go Home Again," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/15/2015.).
