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10 Books That Sweep You Off Your Feet (And Put You Somewhere Else)

MYSTERY & DETECTIVE

LIFE AFTER LIFE

by Kate Atkinson

Provocative, entertaining and beautifully written. It’s not quite the tour de force that her Case Histories (2004) was, but... Full review >

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FICTION

SNAPPER

by Brian Kimberling

A well-turned debut that airdrops its characters into an appealingly offbeat milieu. Full review >

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FICTION

THE ACCURSED

by Joyce Carol Oates

Though it requires some work and has a wintry feel to it, it’s oddly entertaining, as a good supernatural yarn should be. Full review >

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SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY

THE WORLD OF THE END

by Ofir Touché Gafla ; translated by Mitch Ginsburg

Simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking, handled with sublime assurance, astonishingly inventive, funny and totally... Full review >

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SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

by Gabriel García Márquez & illustrated by Gregory Rabassa by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Those who pass time with the Señor will find this a luxuriant, splendid and spirited conception. Full review >

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THRILLER & SUSPENSE

THE HEALER

by Antti Tuomainen

Tapani’s search, which will lead him through an appalling series of cityscapes to some shattering discoveries about the wife... Full review >

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NONFICTION

PACKING FOR MARS

by Mary Roach

A delightful, illuminating grab bag of space-flight curiosities. Full review >

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FICTION

RIVER OF STARS

by Guy Gavriel Kay

Lucid and lyrical, and skillfully written, with the sweep of an old-fashioned Pearl S. Buck or James A. Michener saga. Full review >

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FICTION

Z

by Therese Anne Fowler

Fowler has given us a lovely, sad and compulsively readable book. Full review >

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