Lena Andersson, Willful Disregard: A Novel About Love, translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death (New York: Other Press, 2016) ("We are drawn to love in order to feel that someone is seeing us." Id. at 43.).
Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last: A Novel (New York: Nan. A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015).
Lauren Belfer, And After the Fire: A Novel (New York: Harper, 2016).
Lauren Belfer, City of Light (New York: The Dial Press, 1999) ("'Miss Barrett, have you ever noticed that there is a certain type of reformer who likes to help only the helpless? Who takes it as a personal affront when the people he or she wishes to view as subjugated become independent? . . . Have you ever noticed that ypee of reformer?'" Id. at 158.).
Lauren Belfer, A Fierce Radiance: A Novel (New York: Harper, 2010).
Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2016) (If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.---Rene Descartes).
Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2016).
Reed Farrell Coleman, Where It Hurts: A Novel (New York: Putnam, 2016).
Michael Cunningham, A Wild Swan and Other Tales (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015).
Jean D'Ormesson, The Glory of the Empire: A Novel, A History, translated from the French by Barbara Bray, with introduction by Daniel Mendelssohn (New York: New York Review Classics Books, 2016) ("Each of us carries within him all the world's past, and we find there only what we put in it. We create our own history according to our class and tastes, our education and heredity, our time and the circles we move in. Especially since Marx and Freud, it is clear that objectivity in history is a mirage that the traveler over the deserts of bygone ages, thirsty for truth and certainty, can never reach" Id. at 354.).
Louis de Bernieres, The Dust That Falls From Dreams: A Novel (New York: Pantheon Books, 2015).
Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire (New York Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015).
Abby Geni, The Lightkeepers: A Novel (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016).
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel (New York: Riverhead Books, 2015).
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2016) (See Isabel Wilkerson, "Chained Relations," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 6/12/2016.).
Garth Risk Hallberg, City On Fire: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2015).
James Hannaham, Delicious Foods: A Novel (New York: Little, Brown, 2015).
L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, with introduction by Colm Toibin (New York: New York Review Classics Books, 2002).
Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone: A Novel (New York: Little, Brown, 2016).
John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015).
Raymond Kennedy, Ride a Cockhorse, introduction by Katherine A Powers (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1991, 2012).
Stephen King, Under the Dome: A Novel (New York: Gallery Books, 2009).
Lynne Kutsukake, The Translation of Love: A Novel (New York: Doubleday, 2016).
Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go: A Novel (New York: Berkley Books, 2016).
Gregory Maguire, After Alice: A Novel (New York: William Morrow, 2015).
Ian McEwan, Nutshell: A Novel (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2016).
Ian McGuire, The North Water: A Novel (New York: Henry Holt, 2016).
Herta Muller, The Fox Was Ever the Hunter: A Novel, translated from the German by Philip Boehm (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2016).
Marie NDiaye, Ladivine: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2016).
Christopher Nicholson, Winter (New York: Europa Editions, 2015).
Chigozie Obioma, The Fisherman: A Novel (New York: Little, Brown, 2015).
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth: A Novel (New York: Harper, 2016).
Iain Pears, Arcadia: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2016).
Terry Pratchett, Mort, introduction by A. S. Byatt, illusions by Omar Rayyan (London; The Folio Society, 2016) ("Mort thought that history was thrashing around like a steel hawser with the tension off, twanging backwards and forwards across reality in great destructive sweeps." "History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reunited to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always--eventually--manages to spring back into its old familiar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time." Id. at 103.).
Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist: A Novel (New York: Berkley Books, 2013).
Suzanne Rindell, Three-Martini Lunch: A Novel (New York: G. P. Putnam, 2016) ("Memoirs are a tricky genre. It is a little-known secret: We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying." Id. at 498.).
J. K. Rowling (aka Robert Galbraith), Career of Evil (A Cormoran Strike Novel) (New York: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2015).
Anuradha Roy, Sleeping with Jupiter (India: Hachette India, 2015).
Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2015).
Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (New York: Knopf, 2016).
Cathleen Schine, They May Not Mean To, But They Do: A Novel (New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) (See Penelope Lively, "Some Extra, Just for You," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 6/19/2016,).
Dominic Smith, The Last Painting of Sara De Vos: A Novel (New York: Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar. Straus & Giroux, 2016).
Natsume Soseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese and with a foreword by Edwin McClellan (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2006) (friendship, loneliness, death).
Ayelet Tsabari, The Best on Earth: Stories (New York: Random House, 2016).
Junichiro Tanizaki, Naomi, translated from the Japanese by Anthony H. Chambers (New York: Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2001).
John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes (New York: Penguin Books, 1953, 2008).
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel (New York: Doubleday, 2015) ("'Well, Harold,' Avi would say, perplexed and irritated," Don't know what to tell you, then. You know as well as I do that I can't do anything if the victim won't speak.' I remembered thinking, as I very rarely thought, what a flimsy thing the law was, so dependent on contingencies, a system of so little comfort, of so little use to those who needed its protection the most." Id. at 356.).
