Category: Fiction
Haruki Murakami “1Q84”
It would be an understatement to say that this literary work is one of my…
Mindy McGinnis “The Female of the Species”
A thought provoking, painful but achingly honest novel from the Edgar Award-winning author, exposing aspects…
Mary Lynn Bracht “White Chrysanthemum”
“Some historians believe fifty thousand to two hundred thousand Korean women and girls were stolen,…
Sally Nicholls “Ways to Live Forever”
This novel touches upon the sensitive topic of death and specifically death by cancer. It…
Christopher Priest “The Islanders”
This novel, oh excuse me, a collection of short stories… no, actually it’s a tourist…
Ned Vizzini “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”
“Shhhhhh! Healing in progress.” Claig Gilner suffers from depression. Not because of loneliness, bullying, having…
John Green “Paper Towns”
The citizens of Orlando, Florida are more than fine with their routine-filled life, managing between…
Anne Tyler “The Beginner’s Goodbye”
There are millions of books about relationships between men and women, among them a considerable…
Robin Sloan “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore”
A book about a bookstore… As a librarian, I could not pass it by. Imagine…
Michael Morpurgo “Private Peaceful”
This book is a novel of contrasts: the young and the old; the weak and…
Tan Twan Eng “The Garden of Evening Mists”
“From what you’ve been telling me, it’s just about aesthetics, isn’t it? The garden I…
Mo Yan “Big Breasts and Wide Hips”
This book is a winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Mo Yan is most…
Emma Donoghue “Room”
Room is a shocking, riveying, exhilarating story of unconquerable love and a diamond-hard bond between…
Carlos Ruiz Zafón “The Prisoner of Heaven”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s latest work The Prisoner of Heaven is the third in his seires,…