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

The Sisterhood Helen Bryan Published 4/30/13 Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed to a life...

The Caretaker A .X. Ahmad Published 5/21/13 A gripping, evocative thriller about a disgraced Sikh Indian Army captain who works as the...

The Last Girl Jane Casey Published 5/21/13 Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with...

A Far Piece to Canaan Sam Halpern Published 5/28/13 A Far Piece to Canaan is a warm and nostalgic novel from an unexpected source: Sam Halpern,...

Looking for Me Beth Hoffman Published 5/28/13 A Southern novel of family and antiques from the bestselling author of the beloved Saving...

The Outsider Chris Culver Published 5/28/13 Ash Rashid stands alone. A 12-year veteran of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, and...

And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini Published 5/21/13 Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make...

Live by Night Dennis Lehane Published 5/14/13 Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners...

The Headmaster's Wager Vincent Lam Published 5/14/13 A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to his country, his family...

And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini Published 5/21/13 Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make...

Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Published 5/14/13 Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a...

Flora Gail Godwin Published 5/7/13 Flora is a novel as word-perfect and taut as an Alice Munro short story; like Munro, Godwin has flawlessly depicted the...

The Art Forger B A. Shapiro Published 5/21/13 On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...

Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain Lucia Perillo Published 5/20/13 Set in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, Lucia Perillo's story collection is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the...

Live by Night Dennis Lehane Published 5/14/13 Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners...

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson Published 3/12/13 Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for...

Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Published 2/26/13 Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know...

The House Girl Tara Conklin Published 2/12/13 A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia...