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...that distant but recognizable childhood place...is deeply colorful and imaginative, taking place in a world of unusual creatures and situations, described compellingly and convincingly in a way that makes them feel soundly logical.

AV Club

79%
Skloot narrates the science lucidly, tracks the racial politics of medicine thoughtfully and tells the Lacks family’s often painful history with grace.

NY Times

85%
...eloquent memoir as a letter to his teenage son, bearing witness to his own experiences and conveying passionate hopes for his son’s life.

Kirkus

80%
An artfully balanced mystery, thriller and coming-of-age story, Louise Erdrich's "The Round House" is the gripping tale of the effects of violence on a family.

Star Tribune

80%
In this moment and a thousand others like it, Johnson...juxtaposes the vicious atrocities of the regime with the tenderness of beauty, love, and hope.

Publishers Weekly

78%
Ms. Stedman builds a solid case for all sides — or, at least, makes everyone’s motives understandable.

NY Times

84%
Readers may dispute his most pessimistic inferences, but few will deny McEwan his place among the best of Britain’s living novelists.

Publishers Weekly

71%
...“The Power of Habit” is an enjoyable book, and readers will find useful advice about how to change at least some of their bad habits...

NY Times

76%
. . .leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward. It also, unfortunately, avoids grappling in a few instances with research that casts doubt on those theories.

NY Times

60%
The shadows of a beginning for black-white understanding, the persistent fight that Scout carries on against school, Jem's emergence into adulthood, Calpurnia's quiet power, and all the incidents touching on the children's "growing outward" have an attractive starchiness that keeps this southern picture pert and provocative.

Kirkus

87%
Flight Behavior will be published on Election Day after a presidential campaign in which climate change was noticeably absent. In this and throughout the book, Kingsolver is deft with a pointed hint.

NPR

72%
Striking research showing the immense complexity of ordinary thought and revealing the identities of the gatekeepers in our minds.

Kirkus

82%
READERS will marvel at the intelligence and resilience of the Walls kids. We root for them when they escape, one by one, to New York City...

NY Times

80%
For the most part, I Am Malala succeeds in its lucid explanation of a history unfamiliar to most people in the West, and as a testament to bravery and perseverance.

Globe and Mail

80%
A thoughtful edit might have removed many of the stylistic slippages...there might have been a good, possibly even great, 300-page social novel inside the 500-page tear-jerker we have instead. Let’s hope it will be different next time.

NY Times

63%
Rather than settle for a coming-of-age or travails-of-immigrants story, Hosseini has folded them both into this searing spectacle of hard-won personal salvation. All this, and a rich slice of Afghan culture too: irresistible.

Kirkus

86%
The novel becomes a comic celebration of polymorphous perversity, and of literature.

Guardian

75%
It’s the great American novel! But we’re over great American novels!

National Post arts

76%
If you have ever wanted something, lost someone, thought, felt, or breathed, read this book. Listen to the audiobook. Download the Kindle version. You will not be disappointed.

Blog Critics

75%
In early sections — among the best in the book — the author reveals that his actual surname was itself an invention.

NY Times

73%

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