Fiction

Dan Brown's new novel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, is now available. The Lost Symbol will once again feature Brown's unforgettable protagonist, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. This book's narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and from the first page, readers will feel the thrill of discovery as they follow Langdon through a masterful and unexpected new landscape.

Await Your Reply is phenomenal, fabulous, and riveting. In this magnificent novel, three strangers are slowly drawn together, as they attempt to get a hold on their lives. Miles has spent much of his adult life trying to track down his twin brother, who seems to remain just barely out of Miles’ grasp. When Ryan discovers he is adopted he is committed to start his life anew. And when Lucy’s parents are killed she becomes even more determined to escape her miserable hometown, and accepts her high school teacher’s potentially deadly invitation. Both a gripping page-turner and a modern meditation on identity, Await Your Reply comes through on all fronts. (If you’ve never read Dan Chaon before, don’t miss his other books, You Remind Me of Me and Among the Missing because they are equally amazing!)
—R.M.

Although this book completes Ellroy's American Underground trilogy, you can definitely read it as a standalone, because I have. The story starts out with a brutal armed robbery, and then leaps ahead in time to 1968, when the presidential election is at stake, and every kind of fringe nutcase has just crawled out of the woodwork. (Sound familiar?) This is a tour de force, but be forewarned—you can trust Ellroy as a guide, but hanging out in the minds of the far right isn't always easy.
—Seana Graham

Lorrie Moore gives us Tassie, who takes center stage in this novel as the epitome of post-adolescent glory: idealistic and a tad naïve. I identified so strongly with Tassie at twenty that I couldn’t help but want to shield her as she stumbles through a world she could never have expected. With all the pain and frustration Tassie’s world has to offer, one would expect her to become angry and sullen. And yet even as Tassie is confronted by the straight-up suckiness of the world, she maintains a lightness that shines through in moments of wit and absurdity that compel laughter, making her one of the most real and hopeful characters I’ve encountered. —KMS