Complete book coverage for Oct. 18, 2009
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‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ is an enduring classic, but how about Kurt Vonnegut’s other work? Reissues of his early novels are a time for reconsideration.
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How Jeff VanderMeer’s personal memories blend with imagined ones in his new novel “Finch.”
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In a previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut story from a new book, the author bellies up to the bar.
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The bard of Brooklyn looks west -- to Manhattan’s Upper East Side -- for a wild trip down the rabbit hole. Strange days indeed.
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The author commands language and imagery, playing the reader like a master.
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A rich, expansive novel of families in a British countryside community as the world heads toward World War I.
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A husband and father turns to the drug trade to try to get out of a financial hole after he gets laid off from his reporting job in this darkly funny novel.
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A widower seeks refuge on his family’s Arizona ranch but finds smugglers, guns and long-held vendettas instead.
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Picking Bones From Ash A Novel Marie Mutsuki Mockett Graywolf Press: 284 pp., $24 Some fiction makes the world a little smaller; illuminates the dark corners, puts the taste of, say, breakfast in a small mountain village of Japan in the mouth of the reader (rice balls, in a ryokan, made by your mother the night before).
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Fiction Weeks on list1.The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $25.99) Harvard professor Robert Langdon uses his symbology skills to find a missing Freemason in Washington, D.C.4 2.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined while changing a Mississippi town. 19 3.Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (Riverhead: $25.95) A woman acquaints herself with the songwriter whose album caused the breakup of her recent relationship.1 4.Rough Country by John Sandford (Putnam: $26.95) Virgil Flowersinvestigates a kayaker’s death at a women’s resort in Minnesota. 15.An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte Press: $30) A romance blooms during Colonial times with consequences centuries later. 36.A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (Knopf : $25.95) A naive Midwestern college coed takes a job as a nanny for a recently adopted toddler.57.Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (Scribner: $26.99) Twins move into their recently deceased aunt’s flat in London only to find her spirit still lingering about.18.Blood’s a Rover by James Ellroy (Knopf : $28.95) A bank heist sets off an escapade through ‘60s L.A. with run-ins with the mob, the FBI and Howard Hughes. 29.The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $25.95) A hacker implicated in two murders must revisit her past to prove her innocence. 11 10.Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press: $17.99) The winners of the annual Hunger Games face the consequences of their victory.5 11.The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central: $24.99) A brother and sister begrudgingly spend the summer with their estranged pianist father and discover the meaning of unconditional love.5 12.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press: $17.99) A teenage girl is selected in an annual fight-to-the-death reality show in a post-apocalyptic America. 3 13.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death.65 14.The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (Nan A.
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Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.
