All Fours
By Miranda July
A novel bursting with desire that mostly goes unconsumed; a midlife crisis in a motel room.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
By Werner Herzog
Herzog has lived many lives and exudes an endless curiosity—as if, as a child, he fell into a Bavarian creek awash with potion and clambered out anew, like some German Obelix.
The New York Trilogy
By Paul Auster
Auster at his strangest in three unexpected detective novels.
The First Bad Man
By Miranda July
Nobody in their right mind would do the things Cheryl Glickman does, and nobody can write them down like July can.
Prophet Song
By Paul Lynch
Relentless and unforgiving; a whirlwind of a novel about a country on the brink of totalitarianism.
The Living Mountain
By Nan Shepherd
Written in 1944, shelved for thirty years, and still revealing new vistas.
Cheri
By Jo Ann Beard
An elegant, devastating novella about the march towards a certain death—one that Beard, somehow, makes bearable.