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When Frances and Lily confront their radically altered existence, the narrative culminates in a breathtaking denouement. British writer Waters (The Little Stranger) deserves a large audience.

Publishers Weekly

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%
“In One Person” gives a lot. It’s funny, as you would expect. It’s risky in what it exposes.

NY Times

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%
In his singularly perceptive voice, Lamb immerses his characters and the novel’s readers in powerful moments of hope and redemption and shocking descriptions of violence and abuse.

Star Tribune

72%
The fact that Eilis doesn't always live at a high pitch is just another of the things that make her seem so real. It should also only really be taken as a compliment to the book that one reaches the end hungry for more.

Guardian

73%
The greatest pleasures of this book are its provocations, which are inseparable from its prose.

WSJ online

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%
This is a repeat for a novel we reported last March (see P. 125). We liked it then; we like it still. Literary Guild choice for September, it should go farther than the usual first novel.

Kirkus

81%
Reading this book is both heartbreaking and entertaining. It reveals a woman who tried to balance expectations of greatness with anxieties about falling short.

The Economist

84%
This well-known story marks the beginning of perhaps the greatest, possibly most influential, and certainly the most world-famous Victorian English fiction, a book that hovers between a nonsense tale and an elaborate in-joke.

Guardian

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%
You come away from this biography surprised less by the larksome adventures than by his incorruptible work ethic.

NY Times

70%
Yet he fails to present atheism as an affirmative, joyful choice. Few secular Christians will leave their traditions, dysfunctional as they are, for his cold refuge of skeptics and stuffed shirts.

AV Club

49%
Then Came You is a perfect summer read, complete with soap opera-like vignettes, romance and fantasy.

Globe and Mail

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%
So successful are these elements that the overdetermined, even trite conclusion will probably strike readers as a minor bump in the road. Here’s a narrative experience readers won’t soon forget.

Kirkus

84%

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