Ali Smith narrator Amber spins many tales at once, and has no patience for talking heads.

Ever wondered about corpses from the insect perspective? Crace reverses field to recreate the lost life of the dead.

The fight in Iraq was dictated by Washington political infighting, according to Bob Woodward.

Part comedy of manners, part detective story, Pessl's delight yins and yangs to the delight of adolescence and sarcasm.

Meek takes readers back to Siberia 1919, courtesy of a group of post-World War I Czech stragglers.

Auster stretches his Brooklyn-based magic a little thin in a novel about a man tidying up the end of life.

It's Gilead as in Gilead, Iowa in Marilynne Robinson's saga of the 1950s and family torment.

Amélie-centric Nothomb gets no favors from a clunky translation in this fictional remembrance of days in then-Peking and Dacca.

When daughter Celia goes missing, her father's world is remodeled based entirely on her absence.

Tim Tyson tells of race relations in the 1970s and the North Carolina murder of Henry Marrow.