The Lost Garden

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I Love You, Beth Cooper

Larry Doyle

Denis Cooverman wanted to say something really important in his high school graduation speech. So, in front of his 512 classmates and their 3,000 relatives, he announced: “I love you, Beth Cooper.”

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Hurry Down Sunshine

Michael Greenberg. 

At the age of 15, during one long and difficult summer, Michael Greenberg’s daughter, Sally, was struck mad. (more…)

The House on Fortune Street

Margot Livesey

It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at St. Andrews University and, despite their differences, become fast friends. (more…)

The House at Midnight

Lucie Whitehouse

It was the house that changed everything. After the suicide of his uncle, a successful art dealer, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor, a stately property in Oxfordshire. He imagines it as a place where he and his tight-knit group of friends from Oxford can spend time away from London. (more…)

Bright Shiny Morning

James Frey

Dozens of characters pass across the reader’s sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA’s lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future to be undone by a moment of searing humiliation; a supremely narcissistic action-movie star whose passion for the unattainable object of his affection nearly destroys him; a couple, both nineteen years old, who flee their suffocating hometown and struggle to survive on the fringes of the great city; and an aging Venice Beach alcoholic whose life is turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead outside the restroom he calls home. (more…)

Breath

Tim Winton

A coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. (more…)

The Book of Dads

Essays on the Joys, Perils and Humiliations of Fatherhood

Edited by Ben George

As a new father, editor Ben George had bought Anne Lamont’s Operating Instructions for his wife. Later, alone with his newborn daughter two days a week, he found himself wishing for his own Operating Instructions. (more…)

The Ballad of West Tenth Street

Marjorie Kernan

Once upon a time in Manhattan . . . (more…)

Atmospheric Disturbances

Rivka Galchen

While everyone else may be fooled, psychiatrist Leo Liebenstein knows better. His wife is not his wife. She is a dead-ringer—a doppelganger—but something is very wrong. This isn’t Rema. (more…)