Fiction Books
Coraline
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Gaiman, in his young adult novel Coraline, has created one of the most frightening plots in all of children’s literature. There are many scary things that happen in this story, but what makes it truly nightmarish is the idea that one could have an “other”
Pharmakon
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The father in this novel is a psychology professor at Yale who has determined that his route to fame and fortune will be his invention of a pill to cure depression. It is 1951, and interest in the pharmacological side of psychology is growing;
The Cry of the Sloth
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Andrew Whittaker is an irresponsible landlord, a whining ex-husband, editor of a failing literary journal, and a really really bad aspiring novelist. In the beginning of this epistolary novel his letters are very funny, as in this one to the loan officer at his bank:
A Reliable Wife
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Goolrick’s novel is set in rural Wisconsin in the early 1900s—a time period and location I am most definitely interested in. And the plot involves St. Louis opium dens, sex, madness,
The Book of Lost Things
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This book is actually alive. It is a book in which books talk (and shout, and throw themselves about), and the stories within it are alive and have emotions, so it’s fitting that the book itself would be alive,
Korgi: Book 2
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There’s another Korgi book! And it’s even better than the first!
There is so much going on here (more than in Book 1), and the story is riveting.
Middlesex
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Middlesex is an original and exceptionally well-written book about a hermaphrodite believed to be female at birth who was raised female and lived as a female until the age of fourteen.
Korgi
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I read this seven months ago and have not stopped thinking about it since. It is the first and only graphic novel I’ve ever purchased, and though I’ve never had much interest in the genre, I now find myself wondering if there are other Korgi-like gems awaiting discovery. If so, I need to find them.
The Rapture of Canaan
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Who doesn’t love a good story about a young girl growing up in a religious cult in the backwoods of the Southern U.S.?
In this case, the narrator’s grandfather is the founder and preacher of The Church of Fire and Brimstone and God’s Almighty Baptizing Wind. As you would expect, he is both charismatic and fanatical, and his followers are prone to speaking in tongues.
Strawberry Fields
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I loved this book. But before I remark on anything else, I really need to share my thoughts on the stunningly dreadful and inappropriate U.S. cover. (The book was originally published in England with the title Two Caravans.)