Here are all the outstanding books that I recommend since my last list in June 2013:
FICTION (in no particular order)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Marshall - Maggie O'Farrell
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
Before I Go to Sleep - SJ Watson
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
The Children's Act - AS Byatt
The Dinner - Herman Koch
The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst
Broken Harbour - Tana French (this is the 4th book in a series of mysteries, and the only one I've read, but I hear her other books are even better)
Harvest - Jim Crace
The Edwardians - Vita Sackville-West
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Shame - Jasvinder Sanghera (British-Indian girl escapes forced marriage)
Without You There is No Us - Suki Kim (Korean-American teacher goes undercover in North Korea)
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs - Elissa Wall (not all that well written, but super fascinating and blood pressure raising).
NON-FICTION
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error - Kathryn Schultz
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick (amazing survivor stories from North Korea)
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