Thursday, July 30, 2015

SUGGESTED FICTION

Sherwood Anderson, Collected Stories, edited by Charles Baxter (New York: Library of America, 2012).

Paul Beatty, The Sellout: A Novel (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015) (See Kevin Young, "How He Came Up," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/12/2015.).

Elizabeth Berg, The Dream Lover: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2015).

Fatima Bhutto, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon: A Novel (New York: Penguin Press, 2015) (See Lorraine Adams, "Brothers at War," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/19/2015.).

T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come: A Novel (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015) (See Dana Spiotta, "Don't Tread on Them," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/12/2015.).

Robert Coover, The Brunists ay of Wrath: A Novel (Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanz Books, 2014).

Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists (Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanz Books, 2015).

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel (New York: Scribner, 2014).

Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2015) (See Elisa Albert, "Tinged With Blue," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/29/2015.)

Ryan Gattis, All Involved: A Novel (New Yoek: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015).

David Goodis, Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s: Dark Passage; Nightfall; The Burglar; The Moon in the Gutter; Street of No Return, edited by Robert Polito (New York: Library of America, 2012).

Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel (New York: Riverbed Press, 2015).

Aislinn Hunter, The World Before Us: A Novel (London & New York: Hogarth, 2014) (See Penelope Lively, "Curiouser and Curiouser," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/19/2015.).

Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life: A Novel (New York: Tyrant Books, 2014) (See Clancy Martin, "No Return," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 12/21/2014.).

Toni Morrison, God Help the Child: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2015) (See Kara Walker, "Flesh of My Flesh," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/19/2015.).

Sandra Newman, The Country of Ice Cream Star: A Novel (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015) (See Andrew Ervin, "Bioperversity," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 3/29/2015.).

Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato: A Novel (New York: Broadway Books, 1999).

Ann Packer, The Children's Crusade: A Novel (New York; Scribner, 2015) (See Katie Kitamura, "Prodigal Son," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 4/12/2015.).

Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas: Stories (New York: Norton, 2015) (See Kyle Minor, "The Secret and the Sacred," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 3/29/2015).

Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle: A History (New York: Dutton, 2014).

Gary K. Wolfe, ed., American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956: Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants; Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human; Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow; Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man (New York; Library of America, 2012).

Rafael Yglesias, The Wisdom of Perversity: A Novel (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015) (See Joyce Carol Oates, "Stealer of Souls," NYT Book Review, 4/5/2015.)