Hannah, Kristin: The Nightingale (2 sisters embark on separate dangerous paths toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France)
Hawkins, Paula: The Girl on the Train
Hill, Lawrence, Someone Knows My Name (aka The Book of Negroes or Aminata)
Hislop, Victoria: The Island (rec. by Litsa B)
Holsinger, Bruce: A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire (novels set in 14th-century London)
Israel, Steve: The Global War on Morris (reviewed by Karen Heller in WP Style 1/7/15)
Jiles, Paulette: The Color of Lightning (cultural clashes with Plains Indians in mid-nineteenth-century Texas)
Kaga, Otohiko: Riding the East Wind: A Novel of War and Peace translated from the Japanese by Ian Hideo Levy “helps fill a void in our understanding of what it was really like to live in Japan during the dark years of World War II” (Kunio Francis Tanabe, The Washington Post Book World)
Kostova, Elizabeth, The Swan Thieves
Lethem, Jonathan: Dissident Gardens
Lewis, Sinclair: It Can’t Happen Here (fascism in the US)
Li, Yiyun, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (short stories, The Vagrants, Kinder Than Solitude
Martin, Andrew: Early Work
Mbue, Imbolo: Behold the Dreamers (The trials and tribulations of a young Cameroonian couple and their attempts to build a life in the U.S. PEN/Faulkner Award winner)
McCarthy, Cormac: All the Pretty Horses (rec. by Helen)
Michaels, Ann: Fugitive Pieces
Miller, Madeleine: Circe
Miyabe, Misuke: Shadow Family
Oyeyemi, Helen: Boy, Snow, Bird
Pamuk, Orhan:
My Name Is Red (recommended by Linda Sarigol)
A Strangeness in My Mind
Patchett, Ann:
Commonwealth
Nashville
Pears, Iain: An Instance of the Fingerpost (historical mystery)
Picoult, Jodi: Small Great Things (A poignant story about parental love, friendship, and loss)
Powers, Rich: The Overstory (a novel about trees)
Rayburn, Deanna: A Curious Beginning (An intrepid adventuress in Victorian England thwarts her own abduction.)
Roy, Arundhati: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (added 6.5.17)
Rylant, Cynthia: A Couple of Kooks (rec. by Margaret France)
Sciascia, Leonardo: To Each His Own (mystery set in Sicily)
See, Lisa:
Dreams of Joy
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Shafak, Elif, The Architect’s Apprentice (set in 16th century Ottoman Empire) and other novels
Shem, Samuel (pseudonym of Stephen Bergman) House of God (recommended by Dimitri Balatsias)
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