F. G. Haghenbeck

The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo: A Novel

A notebook found at the former home of the famous Mexican painter inspired this story, which incorporates food and art.

Kurt Vonnegut

We Are What We Pretend to Be

In two novellas that bookend the writer’s career, the styles are dramatically different but the themes resonate as strongly as ever.

Junot Díaz

This Is How You Lose Her

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist returns with a collection of nine short stories that celebrate and bemoan the intricate nature of love.

Karl Taro Greenfeld

Triburbia

A group of fathers in the trendy Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca share their stories in the author’s debut novel.

Grady Smith

Blood Chit

The horror of war and its traumatic aftermath are the transfixing center of the author’s first novel.

Michael Chabon

Telegraph Avenue: A Novel

In this funny but moving tale, a black-music record company struggles with the corporate juggernaut along the famous Berkeley-to-Oakland thoroughfare.

Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson

Hostage

Though touted as a thriller, this novel is more a mixture of memoir and fiction suffused with a series of existential questions and mystical epigrams.

Paul Auster

Winter Journal

In his third memoir, the author recollects his past while examining the approach of old age with a fiercely honest eye.