Over the past six months, Bookclique has reviewed books by Pulitzer-Prize-winning authors, debuts by young writers, classics worth a fresh look, entertaining YA offerings, gripping nonfiction, and not-bad-actually-pretty-good fiction from Ethan Hawke. If you’re wondering what to pick up next, if you’re wondering whether the literary buzz is warranted, if you’re wondering where is the best place on the internet to browse selective recommendations from thoughtful readers, wonder no more. Let us know what you think–as you can imagine, we like to talk about books!
Kate Quinn, The Rose Code
Lydia Millet, The Children’s Bible
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child
Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
Colette, My Mother’s House
Valerie Perrin, Fresh Water For Flowers
Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
Michelle Good, Five Little Indians
Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
Ashley Audrain, The Push
Margot Livesey, The Boy in the Field
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Angeline Boulley, The Firekeeper’s Daughter
Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
Kelly Yang, Parachutes
Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary
Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim
Amanda Leduc, The Centaur’s Wife
Megha Majumdar, A Burning
Joan Silber, Secrets of Happiness
Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed
Lauren Willig, What Women Do: Band of Sisters: The Women of Smith College Go to War
Lauren Blackwood, Within These Wicked Walls
