Nicole Krauss

This incredibly difficult for a bibliophile to say: The History of Love may be my all time favorite book.   It is definitely top two.   Here is a book about the redemptive power of fiction--the worlds that it creates and the lives that it affects.

Stacey D'Erasmo

D'Erasmo's writing is clear, precise, and exquisite. Through it, she creates a tightly wound cast of characters whose lives open up, layer by layer, to reveal the complex, heart-breaking, and redemptive ways that we love one another.

Roxana Robinson

A quiet, exquisitely written novel centering around a woman whose first husband of twenty-five years dies and the relationships she forms after him.  It is a novel whose beauty cannot be described with a plot summary and is reminiscant of Stegner's Crossing to Safety.

Mary Robison

Great, fucking brilliant. You're an ass if you skip this. Really, I mean it.

Lorrie Moore

Ditto: you're an ass if you skip this.

Could be as close to perfect as a book can get. Unbelievable command of language. Painfully sharp, unbearably funny. My all time favorite collection of short stories. One of my all time favorite books, period. She gets it dead on, every time.

Michael Ondaatje

A poetic, beautifully crafted story of the increasingly intertwined lives of a Macedonian thief, a bridge builder, a millionaire, an actress, and a revolutionary. Highly sensual, exquisitely told.

Wallace Stegner

A quiet, rich, beautifully written novel about the life long friendship of two couples.

Vladimir Nabokov

"The only convincing love story of our century."   --Vanity Fair

Eduardo Galeano

If you take the molds for a historian, a poet, a critic, a grand story-teller, a journalist a novelist, and an artist and blend them all together, what, or who you’d have is Eduardo Galeano.  He is an author who defies categorization, and his books are written across the boundaries of genre.

Anne Michaels

Stunning. One of the best books I've ever read. An exquisitely told story of a young boy rescued from the horrors of the Holocaust by a Greek scholar. One of those very few books simply raze anything else you've read to the ground. I wept from the overwhelming beauty of it all.

Alice Sebold

"When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope."

Barbara Gowdy

What do you get when you cross a female necrophile, a lonely exhibitionist, a two-headed man, Siamese twins, a young girl with a severely enlarged head, and a transsexual in middle America?
Crack Gowdy's fabulous collection of stories and find out.

Katharine Noel

Joan Barfoot

Ever thought about moving to Canada?  Well, with George W. here and Joan Barfoot there, I think we should all strongly consider it.  Barfoot’s newest book, Luck, is a masterpiece of voice and style. A sharp, funny, and wholly original satire on mortality—don’t miss it.

Mark Haddon

Follow Christopher John Francis Boone—a fifteen year old boy with Asberger's syndrome, who knows all the prime numbers up to 7,057; can name every country in the world and it's capital; finds it hard to imagine things which did not happen to him; and is adamant that food colors must not be mixed on his plate—as he tries to solve the mystery of what happened to his neighbor's dog.