Current Books - This week's best hardcover and paperback book choices!

The Voluntourist Ken Budd Published 5/8/12 Ken Budd's The Voluntourist is a remarkable memoir about losing your father, accepting your...

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake Anna Quindlen Published 4/24/12 In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life...

Afterwards Rosamund Lupton Published 4/24/12 The school is on fire. Her children are inside. Grace runs toward the burning building,...

The Greater Journey David McCullough Published 5/15/12 The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurous American...

Lehrter Station David Downing Published 5/8/12 WWII has ended… But the danger has just begun for a spy caught between political superpowers.

Enchanted Alethea Kontis Published 5/8/12 It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week....

The Sadness of the Samurai Victor del Arbol Published 5/22/12 A betrayal and a murder in pro-Nazi Spain spark a struggle for power that grips a family for generations in this sweeping...

Canada Richard Ford Published 5/22/12 A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel...

Birdseye Mark Kurlansky Published 5/8/12 The first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food...

Killed at the Whim of a Hat Colin Cotterill Published 5/22/12 Set in present day rural Thailand, Cotterill launch of a brand new series which is as sharp and witty, yet more engaging...

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive Steve Earle Published 5/22/12 A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is...

Orientation Daniel Orozco Published 5/22/12 Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape...

The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh Published 4/3/12 A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and...

Please Look After Mom Kyung-sook Shin Published 4/3/12 An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's native Korea, Please...

The Gods of Gotham Lyndsay Faye Published 3/15/12 1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate...

The Islanders Christopher Priest Published 6/1/12 A tale of murder, artistic rivalry, and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where...

What Dies in Summer Tom Wright Published 6/4/12 "I did what I did, and that's on me." From that tantalizing first sentence, Tom Wright sweeps us...

The Mansion of Happiness Jill Lepore Published 6/5/12 Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly...