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...with The Paying Guests, Waters has not only crafted a vivid portrait of class dissolution in post-WWI London, but also a look at the achingly human need for a sense of purpose and, if we’re lucky, a little intimacy.

AV Club

77%
This is the strength of Chbosky’s writing. He crafts Charlie’s voice in a way that defies context. Charlie is inside every lonely teenager and every adult remembers him fondly. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a gift...

Guardian

74%
Mr. Irving is unfailingly respectful and broad-minded in exploring these subjects...

WSJ online

75%
This book is beautifully crafted and written with understanding for those people who have disabilities. The description and the story are well thought out and there are parts that make you cry and parts that make you laugh.

Guardian

79%
After reading the book, I feel like I managed to pick up the main ideas that Oscar Wilde was trying to convey.

Guardian

74%
We all know that life is tangled and messy. Still, in reminding readers of this fact, Lamb turns in a satisfyingly grown-up story, elegantly written.

Kirkus

72%
In truth, this is the plight of anyone who moves from one country to another. But Tóibín has captured this sense of the tragedy of choice, the loss that accompanies any decisive moment in our lives, better than any author I have read.

Blog Critics

73%
Robinson is a splendid writer, no question—erudite, often wise and slyly humorous

Kirkus

83%
It’s a tender, honest exploration of identity and sexuality, and a passionate reminder that love—whether romantic or familial—should be open, free, and without shame.

Publishers Weekly

88%
Beautiful prose, tangible emotion, and a constantly lingering sense of dread make what should be a fairly short reading experience an intense and disturbing experience.

NY Journal of Books

79%
A rousing labor of love by a major contemporary author, Kavalier & Clay reveals that sometimes the horrors generated by popular artists can both reflect and ricochet.

AV Club

80%
It was part of life — not of my buttoned-up life, but of the noisy immigrant life made real in the pages of Betty Smith's novel — and it was sometimes a part that caused heartbreak or chaos.

NPR

81%
Like every millennial who’s seen irony elevated to an art form, Keegan brings self-awareness to the collective insecurity of her peers, even as she captures it with a precision that only comes from someone who feels it too.

Publishers Weekly

84%
The Mad Hatter's youthful, disheveled appearance makes him resemble a modern hipster, and the pop-up trial scene features a flying pack of cards. A clever and inventive interpretation.

Publishers Weekly

78%
Composed, logically derived, this grim forecasting blueprints the means and methods of mass control, the techniques of maintaining power, the fundamentals of political duplicity, and offers as arousing a picture as the author's previous Animal Farm. Certain to create interest, comment, and consideration.

Kirkus

75%
. . .the timing couldn't be better for this enjoyable and well-sourced book, which — like Hockney's own work — is both conversational and perceptive.

LA Times

70%
He insists that religion is a divisive and oppressive force, but he is less convincing in arguing that the world would be better and more peaceful without it.

Publishers Weekly

49%
The conflicts enmeshing all these characters...are gripping, and Weiner’s elucidation of socio-economic determinism is as sharp as ever.

Kirkus

76%
Today, while not as merciless in its analysis as The House of Mirth, Wharton's late masterpiece stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture and in desperate need of a European sensibility.

Guardian

72%
I couldn’t recommend it more! With all of its quirks, I’ll Give You The Sun is beautifully written, with characters that will make you feel through their art and a storyline that will grip your heart. A golden five stars!

Guardian

84%

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