Elegy in Blue: A Novel

By Mark Helprin

Elegy in Blue: A Novel

An over-the-top tale for our over-the-top times.

The Other Beautiful People

A career woman grapples with the endless demands of work and home.

In a Yellow Wood

By Cynthia Ozick

In a Yellow Wood

An outstanding introduction to the master’s body of work.

Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom

By Marcelo D’Salete; translated by Andrea Rosenberg

Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom

In 1860s Brazil, a slave attempts to find her loved ones.

Ten Clear Days

By Eric Beck Rubin

Ten Clear Days

An elderly matriarch and Holocaust survivor asserts her right to die.

Inheritance: A Novel

A young Canadian woman yearns to understand her immigrant parents’ past.

Crucible: A Novel

By John Sayles

Crucible: A Novel

This curiously inert story might’ve worked better as nonfiction.

The Creek, the Crone, and the Crow: A Novel

Could a witch’s gift transform a dying Appalachian village?