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Queen of Dreams Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dream-teller mother, who has rarely spoken about her past or her native India. Rakhi has... Read More Queens' Play Written by Dorothy Dunnett Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles. Once an accused traitor, now a valued--if reluctant--agent of Scottish diplomacy, Lymond is sent to France, where a very young Mary Queen of Scots is sorely in need of his protection. For although the child is... Read More Race of Scorpions Written by Dorothy Dunnett At the age of 21, Nicholas finds himself in limbo. His beloved wife has died, his stepchildren have locked him out of the family business, and his private army is the target of multiple conspiracies. And both contenders for the throne... Read More The Rain Before It Falls Written by Jonathan Coe The Rain Before It Falls is a complex and richly layered novel. It is filled with stories within stories, and the novel itself consists largely of written reproductions of spoken narrations, which are themselves elaborate descriptions of photographs. In The Rain... Read More Rapture Written by Susan Minot In Susan Minot's provocative new novel, Rapture, the tumultuous rise and fall of a romantic relationship provides the context for the exploration of the chasm between the experience of the mind and the experience of the body. Ex-lovers Kay Bailey and... Read More The Reader Written by Bernhard Schlink Michael Berg is fifteen and suffering from hepatitis. When he gets sick in the street one day on his way home from school, a woman brings him into her apartment and helps him to wash up. Later, he visits the woman... Read More The Reader (Movie Tie-in Edition) Written by Bernhard Schlink Michael Berg is fifteen and suffering from hepatitis. When he gets sick in the street one day on his way home from school, a woman brings him into her apartment and helps him to wash up. Later, he visits the woman... Read More Reading in the Dark Written by Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark's unnamed narrator looks back on his childhood and adolescence in the 1940s and 50s in the Bogside neighborhood of Derry, a troubled town on the border of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Members of the boy's family... Read More A Recipe for Bees Written by Gail Anderson-Dargatz At eighteen, Augusta leaves her family farm and her widowed father to marry Karl Olsen, a taciturn thirty-year-old farmer. On their forty-eighth anniversary, as they wait for news about their son-in-law's critical surgery, Augusta is swept by memories of the past... Read More Red Azalea Written by Anchee Min In Red Azalea, Anchee Min remembers with clarity and poignancy growing up during China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). She experienced abject poverty, brutal physical hardship, first love, and loss, all during this extraordinary and terrifying period of China’s history. Despite... Read More Red Water Written by Judith Freeman Set in the harsh high-desert landscape of Utah in the 1870s, Red Water tells the story of John D. Lee, a Mormon elder and frontiersman, a man who wed nineteen women and was involved in the killing of more than one... Read More A Regular Guy Written by Mona Simpson Tom Owens is an ex-hippie entrepreneur whose biotechnology firm, Genesis, has made him a multi-millionaire while still a young man. Jane is the daughter he has never met because when she was conceived he was synthesizing the protein that was to... Read More Remainder Written by Tom McCarthy When the unnamed narrator of Remainder is given eight and a half million pounds in a settlement for an accident that left him in a coma for several months, he is at first uncertain how to spend the money. The conventional... Read More Remembering Babylon Written by David Malouf In the case of Remembering Babylon, the myth is that of the settling of Australia and of the fateful contact between white Europeans and black aborigines. That contact--and all its tragic repercussions and missed possibilities--is represented by the sudden appearance, in... Read More Resistance Written by Owen Sheers In a remote and rugged Welsh valley in 1944, in the wake of a German invasion, all the men have disappeared overnight, apparently to join the underground resistance. Their abandoned wives, a tiny group of farm women, are soon trapped in... Read More Reunion Written by Alan Lightman Charles is a middle-aged college English professor who is obsessed with the passions of others, but who lives a modest, routine life. On a whim, Charles decides to attend his college reunion, where he meets with a cast of former classmates... Read More Revolutionary Road Written by Richard Yates Nearly fifty years have passed since Richard Yates published Revolutionary Road, a morally probing and brilliantly crafted novel that remains as unsettling today as when it first appeared. Set largely in the pleasant confines of suburban Connecticut and the office-drone world... Read More Revolutionary Road (Movie Tie-in Edition) Written by Richard Yates Nearly fifty years have passed since Richard Yates published Revolutionary Road, a morally probing and brilliantly crafted novel that remains as unsettling today as when it first appeared. Set largely in the pleasant confines of suburban Connecticut and the office-drone world... Read More The Right Attitude to Rain Written by Alexander Mccall Smith Isabel’s insatiable interest is roused when she observes a couple emerge from their illegally parked and very expensive car on an Edinburgh street. The man’s face is contorted with Bell’s palsy, while the much younger woman is a fresh-faced beauty. Moments... Read More The Ringed Castle Written by Dorothy Dunnett Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles Between Mary Tudor's England and the Russia of Ivan the Terrible lies a vast distance indeed, but forces within the Tudor court impel Lymond to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad Tsar... Read More The River of Doubt Written by Candice Millard “If it is necessary for me to leave my bones in South America, I am quite ready to do so.” Those words, written by Theodore Roosevelt before he embarked on the most challenging expedition of his life, nearly became prophecy. Determined... Read More The Road from Coorain Written by Jill Ker Conway Conway recounts the successive phases of her early life: her childhood on a remote sheep station, her teenage years in suburban Sydney, her education at the University of Sydney, and her decision to become a historian and to leave Australia for... Read More The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008) Written by Cormac McCarthy Set in the smoking ashes of a postapocalyptic America, Cormac McCarthy's The Road tells the story of a man and his son's journey toward the sea and an uncertain salvation. The world they pass through is a ghastly vision of scorched... Read More The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009) Written by Cormac McCarthy The Road Written by Cormac McCarthy Set in the smoking ashes of a postapocalyptic America, Cormac McCarthy's The Road tells the story of a man and his son's journey toward the sea and an uncertain salvation. The world they pass through is a ghastly vision of scorched... Read More The Robber Bride Written by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood... Read More The Rope Walk Written by Carrie Brown The Rope Walk is a luminous coming-of-age story that unfolds over a crucial summer in the life of a young New England girl. At her tenth birthday party, Alice meets two people unlike any she's ever known: Theo, a mixed-race New... Read More The Rule of Saint Benedict Written by St. Benedict St. Benedict, the sixth-century father of Western monasticism, set down what quickly became the most famous and enduring guide for those in search of spiritual fulfillment through life in community. Though still consulted by monks, priests, and nuns today, The Rule... Read More Rules of the Wild Written by Francesca Marciano Rules of the Wild tells the dramatic tale of Esmé, a young Italian woman torn between two cultures and two lovers. After the death of her beloved father, feeling estranged from her own roots in the hyper-civilized society of Naples, Esmé... Read More Runaway Written by Alice Munro The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In “Passion,” a country girl working at a resort hotel emerges into the larger world and discovers in... 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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