TABLE of CONTENTS Volume I

Home , Douglas Glover (writer), God of Carnage, Javier Cercas, Nino Ricci, Per Olov Enquist, The Humans (play)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume I

Publisher’sNote...... ix The Feast of the Goat—Mario Vargas Llosa ...... 120 ContributingReviewers...... xi The Fireman—Joe Hill...... 123 Fortune’s Fool—Mike Poulton ...... 126 1Q84—Haruki Murakami ...... 1 Fronteras Americanas—Guillermo Verdecchia...... 129 2666—Roberto Bolaño ...... 4 A Game of Thrones—George R. R. Martin ...... 132 33 Variations—Moisés Kaufman ...... 7 Gather the Daughters—Jennie Melamed ...... 134 4321—Paul Auster ...... 10 Ginny Moon—Benjamin Ludwig ...... 137 After the Fire, a Still Small Voice—Evie Wyld ...... 13 The Girls—Emma Cline...... 140 Against the Day—Thomas Pynchon...... 16 Gloria—Branden Jacobs-Jenkins...... 143 All the Birds in the Sky—Charlie Jane Anders ...... 19 God of Carnage—Yasmina Reza...... 146 Almost, Maine—John Cariani...... 22 Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York—Francis Spufford 149 American War—Omar El Akkad ...... 25 The Golden House—Salman Rushdie ...... 152 Anil’s Ghost—Michael Ondaatje...... 28 The Golden Legend—Nadeem Aslam ...... 155 Arsenic and Old Lace—Joseph Kesselring...... 31 Gone Too Far!—Bola Agbaje...... 158 August: Osage County—Tracy Letts ...... 34 Goodbye, Vitamin—Rachel Khong ...... 161 Austerlitz—W. G. Sebald ...... 36 Grace—Natashia Deón ...... 164 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress—Dai Sijie ...... 39 Hag-Seed—Margaret Atwood ...... 167 The Baptism—Amiri Baraka ...... 42 The Half Brother—Lars Saabye Christensen ...... 170 Battle Royale—Koushun Takami ...... 45 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—Dave Before the Fall—Noah Hawley ...... 48 Eggers ...... 173 Bel Canto—Ann Patchett...... 51 The Hearts of Men—Nickolas Butler ...... 176 Blackbird—David Harrower ...... 54 The Help—Kathryn Stockett ...... 179 TheBlueFlower—Penelope Fitzgerald...... 57 Here I Am—Jonathan Safran Foer ...... 182 The Book of Secrets—M. G. Vassanji...... 60 Heroes of the Frontier—Dave Eggers ...... 185 The Book Thief—Markus Zusak ...... 63 His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas—John Boyne ...... 65 Roderick Macrae—Graeme Macrae Burnet...... 188 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Junot Díaz .....68 His Dark Materials—Philip Pullman ...... 191 The Buddha in the Attic—Julie Otsuka ...... 70 The History Boys—Alan Bennett ...... 193 A Clash of Kings—George R. R. Martin ...... 72 Homegoing—Yaa Gyasi ...... 195 Cloud Atlas—David Mitchell...... 75 A Horse Walks into a Bar—David Grossman ...... 198 Commonwealth—Ann Patchett ...... 78 Hot Milk—Deborah Levy ...... 201 The Corrections—Jonathan Franzen ...... 81 House of Names—Colm Tóibín ...... 204 A Dance with Dragons—George R. R. Martin ...... 84 The Humans—Stephen Karam...... 207 Delirium—Laura Restrepo...... 86 The Hunger Angel—Herta Müller ...... 210 Dodgers—Bill Beverly ...... 89 The Hunger Games—Suzanne Collins ...... 212 Doubt: A Parable—John Patrick Shanley...... 92 I Almost Forgot about You—Terry McMillan...... 215 A Doubter’s Almanac—Ethan Canin ...... 94 The Idiot—Elif Batuman ...... 218 The Dry—Jane Harper ...... 97 Ill Will—Dan Chaon ...... 220 Elle—Douglas Glover ...... 100 In a Dark Dark House—Neil LaBute ...... 223 Everybody’s Fool—Richard Russo...... 103 Infinite Jest—David Foster Wallace...... 226 Exit West—Mohsin Hamid ...... 106 The Inheritance of Loss—Kiran Desai...... 230 Exposure—Helen Dunmore ...... 109 Jane Steele—Lyndsay Faye ...... 233 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—Jonathan Safran John—Annie Baker ...... 236 Foer...... 112 King Charles III—Mike Bartlett...... 239 The Father—Florian Zeller ...... 115 LaRose—Louise Erdrich ...... 242 A Feast for Crows—George R. R. Martin...... 118 The Leavers—Lisa Ko ...... 245

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The Lightkeepers—Abby Geni ...... 248 Millennium Trilogy—Stieg Larsson ...... 274 Lincoln in the Bardo—George Saunders ...... 251 Modern Lovers—Emma Straub ...... 277 Little Deaths—Emma Flint ...... 254 The Mothers—Brit Bennett ...... 280 Little Fires Everywhere—Celeste Ng ...... 257 Mr. Splitfoot—Samantha Hunt...... 283 Lives of the Saints—Nino Ricci ...... 260 My Name Is Lucy Barton—Elizabeth Strout ...... 286 The Lonely Hearts Hotel—Heather O’Neill...... 263 The Nest—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney ...... 289 The Lovely Bones—Alice Sebold...... 266 The Night Alive—Conor McPherson...... 292 A Man Lies Dreaming—Lavie Tidhar ...... 269 Night of the Animals—Bill Broun ...... 295 Middlesex—Jeffrey Eugenides ...... 272 The Ninth Hour—Alice McDermott ...... 298

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Volume II

The Nix—Nathan Hill ...... 301 Sucker Punch—Roy Williams...... 429 Noises Off—Michael Frayn...... 304 The Sugar Syndrome—Lucy Prebble ...... 432 Olive Kitteridge—Elizabeth Strout...... 307 Sunny Afternoon—Joe Penhall ...... 435 The One Man—Andrew Gross ...... 310 Sweat—Lynn Nottage ...... 438 The Opposite of Everyone—Joshilyn Jackson ...... 313 Sweetbitter—Stephanie Danler ...... 441 The Other Boleyn Girl—Philippa Gregory ...... 316 Swing Time—Zadie Smith ...... 444 Our Lady of the Assassins—Fernando Vallejo ...... 319 Tara Road—Maeve Binchy...... 447 Pachinko—Min Jin Lee ...... 321 The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane—Lisa See ...... 449 The Patriots—Sana Krasikov ...... 324 The Theory of Everything—Prince Gomolvilas ...... 452 Percy Jackson and the Olympians—Rick Riordan ...... 327 This Is How It Always Is—Laurie Frankel ...... 455 The Pillowman—Martin McDonagh ...... 329 This Must Be the Place—Maggie O’Farrell...... 458 The Portable Veblen—Elizabeth McKenzie ...... 331 Three Sisters—Bi Feiyu ...... 461 The Power—Naomi Alderman ...... 334 The Time Traveler’s Wife—Audrey Niffenegger ...... 463 The Queen of the Night—Alexander Chee ...... 337 To the Bright Edge of the World—Eowyn Ivey...... 466 Radio Golf—August Wilson ...... 340 The Traitor’s Emblem—Juan Gómez-Jurado...... 469 The Reader—Bernhard Schlink ...... 343 Transit—Rachel Cusk ...... 472 Red—John Logan ...... 346 Tree of Smoke—Denis Johnson ...... 475 RedEarthandPouringRain—Vikram Chandra ...... 348 Twelve Angry Men—Reginald Rose ...... 478 Red Sorghum—Guan Moye ...... 351 Twilight—Stephenie Meyer ...... 481 Redemption Road—John Hart...... 354 The Underground Railroad—Colson Whitehead ...... 484 Reincarnation Blues—Michael Poore ...... 357 The Unexpected Man—Yasmina Reza ...... 487 The Royal Physician’s Visit—Per Olov Enquist...... 360 The Vegetarian—Han Kang ...... 490 The Royale—Marco Ramirez...... 363 Version Control—Dexter Palmer ...... 493 Rumors—Neil Simon ...... 366 Vinegar Girl—Anne Tyler...... 496 Say Nothing—Brad Parks ...... 369 Waking Lions—Ayelet Gundar-Goshen ...... 499 Sea of Poppies—Amitav Ghosh ...... 372 The Wangs vs. the World—Jade Chang ...... 502 The Sea, the Sea—Iris Murdoch...... 375 Water for Elephants—Sara Gruen ...... 505 The Secret Life of Bees—Sue Monk Kidd ...... 378 What We Lose—Zinzi Clemmons...... 508 See What I Have Done—Sarah Schmidt ...... 381 White Oleander—Janet Fitch...... 511 The Sense of an Ending—Julian Barnes ...... 384 Wilde Lake—Laura Lippman ...... 514 The Sentimentalists—Johanna Skibsrud ...... 387 Windows on the World—Frédéric Beigbeder...... 517 Shining City—Conor McPherson ...... 389 Wolf Hall—Hilary Mantel ...... 520 The Signal Flame—Andrew Krivák ...... 392 Wolf Totem—Lü Jiamin...... 523 TheSilenceoftheSea—Yrsa Sigurdardóttir ...... 395 World’s End—T. Coraghessan Boyle ...... 526 Sing, Unburied, Sing—Jesmyn Ward ...... 398 The Yacoubian Building—Alaa al Aswany...... 529 Sleep Deprivation Chamber—Adam P. Kennedy ...... 401 The Year of the Runaways—Sunjeev Sahota ...... 532 ASmallFire—Adam Bock ...... 404 Yellow Face—David Henry Hwang ...... 535 Smile—Roddy Doyle ...... 407 Zero K—Don DeLillo ...... 538 Snow—Orhan Pamuk ...... 410 Solar Bones—Mike McCormack ...... 413 Title Index ...... 541 Soldiers of Salamis—Javier Cercas ...... 416 AuthorIndex...... 543 The Sport of Kings—C. E. Morgan ...... 418 Chronological Index...... 547 Stay with Me—Ayobami Adebayo ...... 421 TypeofPlots...... 549 stoning mary—debbie tucker green ...... 424 Cumulative Title Index...... 551 A Storm of Swords—George R. R. Martin ...... 427 CumulativeAuthorIndex...... 571

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