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The Maltese Falcon Written by Dashiell Hammett Published in 1930, The Maltese Falcon was Dashiell Hammett's third novel in two years. Here he creates a new detective, Sam Spade. When the intriguing Miss Wonderly appears in his office and asks him to tail a fellow named Floyd Thursby... Read More The Map of Love Written by Ahdaf Soueif Lady Anna Winterbourne, an English widow, arrives in British-occupied Cairo in 1900. Fascinated by Egyptian culture, Anna bridles at the prejudices and parochial attitudes of the colonial community and follows her sense of curiosity to places few Europeans venture. During one... Read More A Map of the World Written by Jane Hamilton In the tradition of The Good Mother by Sue Miller and Before and After by Rosellen Brown, A Map of the World is the riveting story of how a single mistake can forever change the lives of everyone involved--in ways that... Read More Maps for Lost Lovers Written by Nadeem Aslam The novel’s setting is a town known only by the name given it by its Asian-born residents: Dasht-e-Tanhaii, or “Desert of Loneliness.” Its Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs live at odds with one another, united only by their suspicion of the affluent... Read More Marie Antoinette Written by Antonia Fraser France’s beleaguered Queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was even before her death the subject of ridicule and curiosity; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often... Read More The Mark of the Angel Written by Nancy Huston In 1957, a young German girl arrives in Paris, a city still recovering from World War II and on the brink of another period of violence and intolerance fomented by escalating tensions between France and Algeria. Saffie, however, is indifferent to... Read More Martha Peake Written by Patrick McGrath Summoned to the gloomy, decaying Drogo Hall by his dying uncle, William, Ambrose Tree listens to William’s disjointed tale of Harry Peake, a poet and performer known as the “Cripplegate Monster.” Harry, his back broken in a fire that took the... Read More Martin Dressler Written by Steven Millhauser It is the late nineteenth-century, "when on any streetcorner in America you might see some ordinary-looking citizen who was destined to invent a new kind of bottlecap or tin can, start a chain of five-cent stores, sell a faster and better... Read More Mating Written by Norman Rush Set in Botswana in the early 1980s, Mating is narrated by an American graduate student in anthropology who feels a compulsion to “tell everything,” to record everything that happens to her. The result is a sprawling, complex, confessional narrative that explores... Read More Matrimony Written by Joshua Henkin It's 1987, and Julian Wainwright, aspiring writer and waspy son of New York City old money, meets beautiful, Jewish Mia Mendelsohn in the laundry room at Graymont College. So begins a relationship that spans twenty years, as it takes Julian and... Read More The Matter Is Life Written by J. California Cooper From her first collection of short stories, A Piece of Mine, to the recently published The Future Has a Past, J. California Cooper has introduced an appealing and diverse cast of characters struggling to make the right choices and find happiness... Read More Me and Shakespeare Written by Herman Gollob The compelling story of how a distinguished editor's postretirement passion for the the works of history's greatest literary genius became an inspiring intellectual and spiritual adventure. Memoirs of a Geisha Written by Arthur Golden The strikingly pretty child of an impoverished fishing family, Chiyo is taken to faraway Kyoto and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house where she is renamed Sayuri. Initially reluctant, Sayuri must finally invent and cultivate an image of herself... Read More Memoirs of a Geisha Written by Arthur Golden The strikingly pretty child of an impoverished fishing family, Chiyo is taken to faraway Kyoto and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house where she is renamed Sayuri. Initially reluctant, Sayuri must finally invent and cultivate an image of herself... Read More Memories of My Melancholy Whores Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated by Edith Grossman On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, the unnamed narrator of Memories of My Melancholy Whores is seized by an inspiration: to give himself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. An undistinguished journalist and author... Read More Men in the Off Hours Written by Anne Carson In the poems and prose pieces of Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson deftly deploys her signature mixture of opposites--the classical and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson and Audubon... Read More A Mercy Written by Toni Morrison Set in the 1680s, in the early stages of the slave trade, A Mercy gives voice to a remarkable group of characters: Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch farmer, trader, and lender; his wife, Rebekka, newly arrived from England; their servant woman, the Native... Read More Midaq Alley Written by Naguib Mahfouz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Written by John Berendt Never before in the history of publishing has a fiction or non-fiction book spent as much time on The New York Times Bestseller List as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. With 2.5 million copies in print, publication in... Read More Midwives Written by Chris Bohjalian On an icy winter night of 1981 in the rustic community of Reddington, Vermont, seasoned midwife Sibyl Danforth is forced to make a life-or-death decision that will change her world forever. Trapped by the weather in an isolated farmhouse, cut off... Read More A Million Little Pieces Written by James Frey James Frey wakes up with a broken nose, missing teeth, a hole in his cheek, and eyes so swollen he can hardly open them. His clothes are "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood" [p. 1]... Read More A Million Nightingales Written by Susan Straight Born on a sugarcane plantation in southern Louisiana, Moinette is the daughter of Marie-Thérèse, an African-born slave, and a white man, a visiting sugar broker who was given Marie-Thérèse as “a gift for one week, a nighttime present” [p. 5]. Moinette... Read More The Ministry of Special Cases Written by Nathan Englander Kaddish Poznan grew up as an hijo de puta among the Jewish pimps, whores, and gangsters of Buenos Aires who called themselves the Society of the Benevolent Self. His mother was a prostitute, his father unknown, and to make a living... Read More The Miracle at Speedy Motors Written by Alexander Mccall Smith The Miracle at Speedy Motors begins as Mma Ramotswe's invaluable but sometimes prickly assistant, Grace Makutsi, opens an unsigned letter. Its message is threatening, and there will be more troubling messages to follow. The agency undertakes the search for the identity... Read More The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint Written by Brady Udall At the beginning of this high-spirited and inexhaustibly inventive novel of the American West, a seven-year-old boy on an Apache Indian reservation has his head run over by a mail truck. Though his skull is crushed, Edgar miraculously survives the accident... Read More Miramar Written by Naguib Mahfouz Misconceptions Written by Naomi Wolf In The Beauty Myth the fearless Naomi Wolf revolutionized the way we think about beauty. In Misconceptions, she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence... Read More The Mistress of Spices Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni In The Mistress of Spices, Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers. Once... Read More The Moor's Last Sigh Written by Salman Rushdie The Moor lives out a unique fate; he is doomed to go through his life at double-speed. Aged thirty-six, but with the physique of a seventy-two-year-old, he narrates the fantastic story of his life within a family who exemplify the glorious... Read More Moral Disorder and Other Stories Written by Margaret Atwood One of our best-loved storytellers, Margaret Atwood writes with a wry wit and a keen understanding of human nature. In Moral Disorder, she has created a series of interconnected stories that illuminate a lifetime of emotions, crossroads, and ironic fates. From... Read More Morality for Beautiful Girls Written by Alexander Mccall Smith At the end of Tears for the Giraffe, the previous novel in the series, Precious Ramotswe is engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the No 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency is firmly established, and all seems to be well. But now, as Morality... Read More Mortals Written by Norman Rush Ray Finch is a forty-eight-year-old American who teaches literature in a boarding school in Botswana. He is ardently in love with Iris, his wife of seventeen years—yet he worries that she is slipping away from him. Iris’s dissatisfaction with life in... Read More Morvern Callar Written by Alan Warner MotherKind Written by Jayne Anne Phillips At thirty-one, Kate Tateman is accustomed to a life of solitude and freedom, writing and travel. When the novel opens, she has bought a house with Matt, a doctor who is going through a divorce. Kate is pregnant with Matt's child... Read More Motherless Brooklyn Written by Jonathan Lethem In a wonderfully original twist on the classic hard-boiled detective novel, Lethem presents a narrator with Tourette's Syndrome and gives his unusual hero a way with words that at first intrigues and then totally captivates the reader. Even among the orphan... Read More Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch Written by Dai Sijie For this second novel, Dai Sijie has invented a most fantastic, yet profoundly enlightening, quest set in modern China. Mr. Muo is a forty-year-old scholar and devotee of Freud who leaves France and returns to his native China to free his... Read More Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician Written by Daniel Wallace A novel that is both an investigation of magic and magical itself, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician asks readers to walk a tightrope between truth and illusion, reality and imagination. There is no safety net, and the occasional fall turns... Read More The Murder Room Written by P. D. James The privately owned Dupayne Museum, dedicated to the history of England between the world wars, is going to close unless all three trustees agree to keep it in business. When the sole dissenting trustee, psychiatrist Neville Dupayne, is found burned alive... Read More Musicophilia Written by Oliver Sacks Music soothes us and stimulates us, moves us to dance with abandon or settle down in quiet contemplation. It is part of every culture and touches people from infancy to old age. Our multifarious psychological, emotional, and physical responses to music... Read More My Antonia Written by Willa Cather Perhaps the most popular of Cather's novels, My Antonia is at once the intimate portrait of an American heroine, an elegy for a vanished frontier, and the story of an unconsummated love affair. Jim Burden, the narrator, meets Antonia Shimerda as a child on... Read More My Ears Are Bent Written by Joseph Mitchell Joseph Mitchell never stopped seeing himself as a reporter. His writing has the virtues of all great journalism: self-effacement, close observation, a reverence for facts, and a masterful use of detail. Factor in his supple, muscular sentences, as functional in appearance... Read More My Life as a Fake Written by Peter Carey Bob McCorkle, an uneducated, working-class bard, takes the Australian literary world by storm. Published in a trendy literary journal, his poetry displays an artistry, fire, and erudition rarely encountered, and the fact, revealed by his sister, that McCorkle tragically died at... Read More My Life, Starring Dara Falcon Written by Ann Beattie Jean is a young woman whose parents died in a plane crash when she was six. Raised by a timid aunt whose yearly gambling vacations wiped out Jean's inheritance--the money paid to victims' families by the airline--Jean meets Bob Warner in college... Read More My Own Country Written by Abraham Verghese In My Own Country, Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor born and educated in Ethiopia, tells of the four years he spent in a Tennessee town as a specialist in infectious diseases. His story begins in 1985, when he arrives in... Read More Mysteries of the Middle Ages Written by Thomas Cahill It's been more than a decade since the tremendously successful publication of How the Irish Saved Civilization, the first book in Thomas Cahill's illuminating series. Mysteries of the Middle Ages owes much to that volume on medieval Irish history, in many... Read More [ Back to top ] |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."
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