"A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home."

"Follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny?"

"Epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics...an unforgettable story about American romance and possibility."

"Engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts."

"About the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates."

"A meticulous portrait of two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship."

"A comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes."

"Sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control."

"Transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption."

"A gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society."

"Lee's complex and passionate characters—strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis—survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history."

"About an Indian boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel who survives a shipwreck and is stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger. The book explores themes of spirituality, faith, art, and life."

"Boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, 'each the other’s world entire,' are sustained by love.

"A fantastical traveling circus centers around a deadly duel between two young magicians, explores themes of love, creativity, sacrifice, and the power of love."

"A tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters- their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events."

"Traces the intertwined fates of the Richardson family and a newly-arrived mother and daughter, explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood."

"Follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize."

"A transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul. At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art."

"Follows two women, college friends now on the cusp of 30, as they struggle to live and find meaning in a world that's become increasingly unlivable on many levels."

"An unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm."

"Set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry, revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence."

"A multilayered tale of misadventure and self-discovery, populated by an eclectic cast of characters, from drifters who make their home riding the rails and larger-than-life vaudevillians to the aristocrats of the Upper East Side."

"Brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day."

"A story about a young girl living in Nazi Germany who makes her way in the world by stealing books. With Death as the narrator, it follows her coming of age in the most difficult of times and places."

"An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own."