1.

The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel מאת Steven Hall The Raw Shark Texts, called “clever, playful . . .  sharp and clear” by the Los Angeles Times and “a horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up” by the New York Times Magazine, is a novel unlike any other. Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or w...

2.

Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (Myths, The) מאת Ali Smith From the astonishingly talented writer of The Accidental and Hotel World comes Ali Smith’s brilliant retelling of Ovid’s gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, l...

3.

Show Me the Sky: A Novel מאת Nicholas Hogg Time is running out for detective James Dent. After having spent a year on the trail of the missing British rock star Billy K, he and his team have exhausted every lead. His relentless search has already cost him both family and home, but Dent decides to go it alone. Abandoning his job at the M...

4.

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths, The) מאת Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, “I’ve chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged mai...

5.

Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorized Story of Public Enemy מאת Russell Myrie Russell Myrie’s Don’t Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin’ is the first authorized biography of Public Enemy, the foremost hip-hop group of all time. With unprecedented access to the group, Myrie has conducted extensive interviews with Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff,...

6.

Carry Me Down מאת M. J. Hyland John Egan is a misfit — "a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant" — who diligently keeps a "log of lies." John's been able to detect lies for as long as he can remember, it's a source of power but also great consternation for a boy so young. With an obsession ...

7.

The Howling Miller מאת Arto Paasilinna Arriving in Northern Finland after the Second World War, Gunnar Huttunen buys a dilapidated mill on the Suukoski rapids of the Kemijoki River. An Ignatius Reilly of the Finnish 1940s, Gunnar is an eccentric outsider swimming against society’s current. Prone to rapid mood swings and a general ...

8.

There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the '60s מאת Peter Doggett Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock and soul musi...

9.

Pandora in the Congo מאת Albert Sanchez Pinol It is 1914 when Marcus Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the depths of the Belgian Congo. He is the sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition in which both his masters, William and Richard Craver, died and from which their African porters fled. Garvey returns to L...

10.

Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang מאת Jonathan Bernstein Brits and Americans dress the same, eat at the same chain restaurants, pass music back and forth across the Atlantic, and our national leaders are practically conjoined twins. But the second the Brits open their mouths, all bets are off. So don’t dream of visiting the UK, dating a Brit, or tr...

11.

Night Work: A Novel מאת Thomas Glavinic The routine of daily life is such that one goes to sleep with the security that tomorrow will arrive, just as it did today. Jonas, a young professional in contemporary Vienna, wakes up one morning to discover that he may be the last living being on earth. The highways are empty. The restaurants...

12.

The Fire Gospel (Myths, The) מאת Michel Faber Theo Griepenkerl, a Canadian linguistics scholar, is sent to Iraq in search of artifacts that have survived the destruction and looting of the war. While visiting a museum in Mosul, he finds nine papyrus scrolls tucked in the belly of a bas-relief sculpture: they have been perfectly preser...

13.

The Earth Hums in B Flat מאת Mari Strachan The Earth Hums in B Flat is a story of dark family secrets unraveled by the shrewd insight of twelve-year-old Gwenni Morgan, a child with an irrepressible spirit living in a Welsh village that is reluctantly entering the modern age. From the small bed that she shares with her sister...