The Glass Hotel

By Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel

This haunting literary triumph links memory and guilt, greed and ambition, desire and desperation.

Beheld

By TaraShea Nesbit

Beheld

The American foremothers of Plymouth struggle for meaning and survival in this story of their own.

What Sammy Knew: A Novel

Clichés and stereotypes weaken this otherwise earnest debut set in 1970s New York.

Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920

An absorbing look at a long-ago scandal that took the shine off the diamond.

The Girl from the Channel Islands: A Novel

A Jewish woman falls in love with a German soldier amid the Nazi occupation of Jersey.

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Taking account of an America altered by Amazon’s primacy.

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

Untangling the legacy of a German grandfather and father who stood on opposite sides in WWII.

Hammer to Fall

By John Lawton

Hammer to Fall

The third installment in the series is entertaining but gets weighed down with too much backstory.