Richard Flanagan's "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" features a full-fledged epic hero.
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The Book of My Lives
Aleksandar Hemon's poignant memoir falters when family tragedy becomes its focus.
Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford revives Frank Bascombe in time to provide luminous late-middle age insights.
The Betrayers
David Bezmozgis takes a page from Graham Greene and Brian Moore in this moral thriller.
The Voice Imitator: 104 stories
Thomas Bernhard's one-page stories are strange and bitter realms unto themselves.
Mixed blessings
Ian McEwan's "The Children Act" shines mostly when one case comes front and center.
Snowdrops
A.D. Miller's debut thriller is a gripping snapshot of Moscow under "weasel" Putin.
Zeno’s Conscience
Italo Svevo's remarkable Zeno Cosini has the pedigree of a 21st-century neurotic.
The Underground Man
Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer endures as a detective ahead of his time.
Kat Zet, née Auschwitz
British novelist Martin Amis offers a fierce satire to revive ever-vital Holocaust themes.
Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner's 2011 debut set a fine tone for postmodern irony, but it grows repetitive.
The Third Policeman
Irishman Flan O'Brien managed to introduce Disney to Swift in a comic vision of death.