GENERAL FICTION

• City of Thieves - David Benioff - Seventeen year-old Lev Beniov is thrown in jail in 1941 Leningrad for looting. Instead of the death sentence he expects, he and his charismatic cellmate are given the nearly impossible task of finding a dozen eggs for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake. This is a wise, funny and thrilling adventure cum coming of age story.
• America America - Ethan Canin - In 1971, Corey Sifter, the son of a plumber, is befriended by wealthy Liam Metarey. He falls for Meteray's daughter and joins the presidential campaign of Henry Bonwiller, a United States Senator from New York whom Metarey wants to put in the White House. When a young woman is found dead, and Bonwiller is implicated in her death, will Corey be blind to the truth? Jerome Charyn in Publisher's Weekly calls this novel "a powerful lament that haunts us like a latter day ghost of The Great Gatsby."

• Slumberland - Paul Beatty
• The Garden of Last Days - Andre Dubus III
• Attachment - Isabel Fonseca
• Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivka Galchen
• All the Sad Young Literary Men - Keith Gessen
• Exiles - Ron Hansen
• The Lazarus Project - Aleksandar Hemon
• Telex from Cuba - Rachel Kushner
• Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
• Dictation - Cynthia Ozick
• In the Mouth - Eileen Pollack
• Three Girls and Their Brother - Theresa Rebeck
• Cost - Roxana Robinson
• The God of War - Marisa Silver
• More Than It Hurts You - Darin Strauss
• Mosquito - Roma Tearne

HISTORICAL FICTION

• The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng - Half British and half Chinese, Philip Aminius Khoo Hutton lives on the Malaysian island of Penang. In 1939, when sixteen year-old Philip is taught aikido by an elderly Japanese diplomat who rents a neighboring island from Philip's father, he becomes an unwitting accomplice to the Japanese invasion of Malaysia. Trusted by no one, he must work in secret to save as many people as he can from the brutality he has helped bring upon them.

MYSTERIES

• Dust of Death - Paul Charles - "The bloodied body of a crucified man is discovered in the Second Federation Church in an Irish Heritage Town on the first Friday of summer. The investigations by Inspector Starrett of the Serious Crime Unit and his young team soon reveal a County Donegal that is not nearly as righteous as its many churches might suggest." (From book jacket)
• The Calling - Inger Ash Wolfe - Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef, investigating the murder of an acquaintance, discovers a series of murders across Canada in which the victims' corpses have had their mouths manipulated into screams. The tension mounts as Micaleff, a sixty-one year old divorced recovering alcoholic, puts herself increasingly at risk in attempts to bring an end to the killing. Wolfe is a pseudonym for a literary novelist.

• Tell No Lies - Julie Compton
• Still Waters - Nigel McCrery
• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - John McFetridge
• Cezanne's Quarry - Barbara Pope
• Assassins at Ospreys - R.T. Raichev
• The Ancient Rain - Domenic Stansberry
• The Mercy Oak - Kathryn R. Wall

ROMANCE

• Private Arrangements - Sherry Thomas - When Lady Tremain, files for divorce, Lord Tremain consents on one condition - that she provide him with an heir. This debut, set in the late nineteenth century, has been called intelligent, refreshing and thought provoking, but mostly it sounds like fun!

SCIENCE FICTION

• The Mirrored Heavens - David J. Williams - The Phoenix Space Elevator is sabotaged in this 22nd century adventure/thriller.

• Kushiel's Mercy - Jacqueline Carey
• Black Ships - Jo Graham
• Null-A Continuum - John C. Wright

THRILLERS

• Collision - Jeff Abbott - A corporate consultant picking up the pieces of his life after the murder of his wife and a former CIA agent working for a covert ops group propel this nonstop, heart pounding, action thriller.
• Don't Tell A Soul - David Rosenfelt - Already under suspicion for the murder of his wife, Tim Wallace's life gets worse when a stranger in a bar tells him a secret. Suspenseful, great characters - this one is hard to put down!