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An exquisitely tuned exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britain—with really hot sex...Waters keeps getting better, if that’s even possible after the sheer perfection of her earlier novels.

Kirkus

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%
Either version is worth a read. Not only is the portrait one of the most enduring images in popular culture, but our relentless lust for good looks at any price is perhaps more relevant today than ever.

Toronto Star

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%
Colm Tóibín’s engaging new novel, Brooklyn , will not bring to mind the fashionable borough of recent years nor Bed-Stuy beleaguered with the troubles of a Saturday night. Tóibín has revived the Brooklyn of an Irish-Catholic parish in the ’50s, a setting appropriate to the narrow life of Eilis Lacey.

Publishers Weekly

73%
I read When I Was a Child I Read Books slowly, not only because I was savouring the books’ gorgeous language, but also because I had to ride out the swells of wonder that another human soul could express ideas as crystalline and beautiful as those in her book.

Globe and Mail

83%
This book, in my eyes, was utter perfection. Told from the perspective of Ari, a quiet boy who has shrunk inside himself as he's grown up around a brother in prison who he knows nothing about, a mother in denial and a father haunted by the war. That's until Dante comes along.

Guardian

88%
This beautiful novella turns on who or what Mary should believe about her son’s life and death—and on a mother’s grief.

Publishers Weekly

79%
Chabon's technique is finely tuned with this novel. His prose is verbose but eloquent, and direct or vivid when he needs to be. There was not one page without a wonderful and uniquely written sentence. He is a writer's writer.

Blog Critics

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%
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%
On any day in Kolkata, the sensory overload is palpable as people snake through the unkempt avenues and the heat and the rains lash you alternately. But that trip and that book in concert left me dizzy...I already loved the city, but on that trip I learned to love Orwell.

Guardian

75%
Sykes’s revealing text is complemented by sketches, drawings, and personal photographs.

Publishers Weekly

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%
“I’ll Give You the Sun” is a dazzling mirror, and many grateful teenagers are sure to find themselves reflected in and learning from its pages.

NY Times

84%

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