Reviews of the best new books, and previews of dozens of books publishing soon

Soy Sauce for Beginners Kirstin Chen Published 1/1/14 Gretchen Lin leaves her heart (or at least her floundering marriage) in San Francisco, moves back...

The Housemaid's Daughter Barbara Mutch Published 12/10/13 Barbara Mutch's stunning first novel tells a story of love and duty colliding on the arid plains...

Where Monsters Dwell Jørgen Brekke Published 2/11/14 An international bestseller—A brutal murder in Norway, a murder in Virginia—both...

The Invisible Code Christopher Fowler Published 12/17/13 London's craftiest and boldest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back in this deviously...

Roomies Sara Zarr, Tara Altebrando Published 12/24/13 It's time to meet your new roomie. When East Coast native Elizabeth receives her...

The Empty Chair Bruce Wagner Published 12/26/13 Comprised of companion novellas, The Empty Chair is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of...

The Aviator's Wife Melanie Benjamin Published 11/26/13 In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain...

The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan Published 11/5/13 A sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish...

The Goldfinch Donna Tartt Published 10/22/13 Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America; a story of...

Anything That Moves Dana Goodyear Published 11/14/13 Anything That Moves is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world...

Glorious Misadventures Owen Matthews Published 11/12/13 From the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original...

Want Not Jonathan Miles Published 11/5/13 A compulsively readable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want. With a satirist's...

The Midwife's Tale Sam Thomas Published 12/10/13 In the tradition of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, The Midwife's...

Why We Broke Up Daniel Handler, Maira Kalman Published 12/3/13 Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they...

A Possible Life Sebastian Faulks Published 11/26/13 From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five transporting...

Dear Life Alice Munro Published 7/30/13 Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and...

Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell Published 6/18/13 Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richly textured psychological...

Children of the Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani Published 6/18/13 A stunning debut novel set in post-Revolutionary Iran that gives voice to the men, women, and children who won a war only...