10 Books Critics Are Raving About Now

"The Heart in Winter is a western and a love story, which would make it a departure for Barry if it weren’t for the fact that all his novels have been departures," remarked the Washington Post of the acclaimed Irish novelist's fourth book, which follows two renegade lovers on the lam in 1890s America.

With the birth of their first child and the unexpected rise of her career, writer Jane finds that she can't overcome her artist husband's ego. Their marriage falls apart, leaving her to examine the pieces of the life she is leaving behind. TIME praised this powerful work for its "stirring observations about marriage and identity."

The "laureate of upended lives," as The Guardian called her, richly imagined novel of family, power, and wealth that begins with a kidnapping in the 1980s.

In Florida, the world seemingly returns to normal following a mysterious illness.... or does it? Laura Van Den Berg, whose first two collections were shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, weaves an elegant, eerie story set within paradise.

The Los Angeles Times was amazed by this "stunning and surreal debut novel" written by a Palestinian journalist born in Jerusalem. "Birkin-bag economics meets colorism and racism and feminism and more--it's beyond intersectionality."

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist returns with a much-anticipated follow-up to her Ninety-Nine Stories of God, with these poetic meditations on fate, the human soul, philosophy, and literature.

The winner of the Uruguayan Prize for Literature stuns readers with this "powerful and beautifully written" novel set in "a terrifyingly convincing near-future scenario. The reader shares the achingly sad narrator's feelings as care-giver, daughter and ex-lover," declared The Guardian.

A wealthy teen vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, setting off a panicked search in this literary suspense novel which NPR compared to the author's previous Long Bright River, but called this one "something weirder and stranger and unforgettable."

This provocative book from the Pulitzer-prize winning author of Gulag dissects how 21st century autocracies are working together to destabilize American hegemony and “provides a trenchant account that indicates that Trump, for all his bluster about America First, is part of a global phenomenon--namely, the rise of an international kleptocracy that often works in tandem,” remarked Washington Monthly.

George R.R. Martin called the bestselling fantasy master's return to fiction "a fresh and engrossing take on the Matter of Britain featuring a colorful cast of Round Table knights who don’t often get as much story time as they deserve. The creator of The Magicians has woven another spell.”