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This enchanting book is a reminder that not all youthful vainglory is silly; sometimes it’s preparation. Few artists ever proved it like these two.

NY Times

84%
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%
Perhaps a bit drifty, dreamy and downbeat at times, “M Train” nonetheless has many lovely set pieces and an overall tone of moody exaltation akin to her music.

Star Tribune

72%
With comical dialogue and some of the most identifiable characters I have encountered, Alaska, if nothing else, is a pleasure to read...The humor of the first half is equally balanced by the melancholoy of the second...Green manipulates our emotions to drive home philosophical questions about life and death.

Blog Critics

80%
Larson lets his parallel narratives exist side by side, seldom directly commenting on their connections, and The Devil In The White City is all the more powerful for it

AV Club

74%
After reading the book, I feel like I managed to pick up the main ideas that Oscar Wilde was trying to convey.

Guardian

74%
The result is perhaps not startlingly new information about relationships, but a solid and interesting tour of what we know about how things are changing, all delivered within Ansari's silly but smart sensibility.

NPR

74%
It was Rebecca that made me realize I didn't wish my life were more like a Gothic novel.

NPR

82%
...an entertaining and mostly well-written journey into the past, if light on rock ’n’ roll.

Kirkus

93%
That one of the world's biggest rock stars writes about it so nakedly makes this memoir important. And that's one reason why this book isn't just for Springsteen's super fans.

NPR

78%
The most evocative sections of the book take place at the seat of the riot grrrl movement, Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington...

Guardian

76%
...has proved to be the most lasting element of Burnett's literary legacy. Perhaps that shouldn't surprise us, given how ahead of its time it was.

Guardian

80%
The chapters alternate between Cal’s point of view and Frida’s and are heavy on flashbacks that bog down an otherwise tense narrative of survival. This has the bones of an excellent book, but, sadly, an untenable amount of flab is covering them.

Kirkus

64%
For me, this book was about the real thing! How issues are actually dealt with, relationships formed and family ties strengthened, and not like your usual OMG teenager drama!

Guardian

82%
The story is powerful as much for what is suggested as for what is told. It leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder...the weight of the story as a revelation of life and as a work of art becomes apparent. And it is very great.

LA Times

81%
Kingsolver moves into new moral terrain in this powerful, convincing and emotionally resonant novel.

Publishers Weekly

79%
...as is true with Victorian Lit, the books are long and wordy and a little dry. It was a little hard for me to get into at first and it was a little boring-ish for me, you have to be in the mood for some heavy literature, reading, and psychology with this book.

The Lit B***h

69%
He takes her to a mushroom town, buys a lot, puts up a store and makes the town sit up and take notice. His success goes to his head -- their life becomes a mockery of her high hopes. And after his death, she goes off with a youth who brings her happiness and tragedy. A poignant story, told with almost rhythmic beauty.

Kirkus

84%
Chapters from the girls’ father’s journal, written to the missing Julia, form a poignant counterpoint to the chilling violence of this unsettling tale.

Publishers Weekly

79%
Anyone who had fallen for Gordon’s steely cool – and the hope that an unconventional woman could have art, love, freedom, success, and a family – won’t be disappointed to learn that Gordon was often feeling her way, just like the rest of us...Throughout, Gordon is front and centre, solo – a suburban, middle-class girl, but complicated.

Guardian

72%

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