1. 'Home,' by Toni MorrisonIn Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison’s latest novel an angry Korean War veteran is forced to confront the past when he takes his sister home to Georgia.
2. 'The Red Book,' by Deborah Copaken KoganFour Harvard grads prepare for their 20th reunion by studying the “red book” – an alumni update published by the school. But nothing is quite as it seems, as these women discover as they gather in Cambridge.
3. 'Kaltenburg,' by Marcel BeyerBirds, the Nazis, and family secrets all come together in this novel in translation by one of Germany’s most highly acclaimed young writers.
4. 'The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (13),' by Alexander McCall SmithBotswana’s most beloved detective is baffled by a series of unsolved mysteries. Who can save the day? Only Clovis Andersen – Mma Ramotswe’s hero and mentor – making his first personal appearance in this popular series.
5. 'Canada,' by Richard FordAfter his parents rob a bank, 15-year-old Dell Parsons seeks out a new life in Saskatchewan. But the evil he hopes to leave behind follows him in this novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford.
6. 'The Lola Quartet,' by Emily St. John Mandel Florida and economic collapse are featured in this novel about a disgraced journalist who returns home to the Sunshine State only to be plunged into a search for his ex-girlfriend and the daughter he didn’t know he had.
7. 'All Woman and Springtime,' by Brandon W. JonesCall it “Memoirs of a Geisha” set in North Korea. Two young North Korean orphans escape to South Korea only to be sold into the sex trade and forced to escape again.
8. 'The Uninvited Guests,' by Sadie JonesDescribed as “something written by a wicked Jane Austen,” this novel by Orange Prize finalist Sadie Jones takes readers through a day in the life of a quirky Edwardian family and their country house.
9. 'The Green Shore,' by Natalie BakopoulosThis debut novel intertwines the lives of four family members – a student, her sister, their widowed mother, and a poet uncle – all caught up in the 1967 Greek military coup.
10. 'The Queen's Lover,' by Francine du Plessix GraySwedish nobleman Count Axel von Fersen, lover of Marie Antoinette, is at the center of this novel by New Yorker writer Francine du Plessix Gray, which sets a love story in an era of social and political upheaval.
11. 'Kingdom of Strangers,' by Zoë FerrarisAmerican writer Zoë Ferraris leverages her insider’s knowledge of Saudi Arabia to good effect to create another in her series of Saudi-based detective novels.
12. 'Mission to Paris,' by Alan FurstA Hollywood star on loan to a French film team in Paris in 1938 finds himself increasingly entangled in a world of politics and intrigue in this new novel from “Spies in the Balkans” author Alan Furst.
13. 'A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar,' by Suzanne JoinsonThis debut novel meshes the story of sister missionaries working along the Silk Route in the 1920s with the tale of a present-day Londoner who – with the help of a Yemeni immigrant – is seeking to unravel mysteries connected with the apartment she inherited.
14. 'Capital,' by John LanchesterThis sweeping novel by award-winning British novelist John Lanchester set at the height of the 2008 financial crisis has already been flagged by some early readers as a standout of 2012 fiction.
15. 'The Red House,' by Mark Haddon
As eight family members vacation together in the British countryside in this novel by Mark Haddon, author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” their various competing voices and stories come together to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Information from: http://www.csmonitor.com/
PS: sadly, none of those books are available in our library. Is it weird? Eh?
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