Intimates
Helen Farish
A debut collection that looks closely at love, family, the body, and loss, rendering the shifting distance inside intimacy with candor and delicacy.
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Helen Farish
A debut collection that looks closely at love, family, the body, and loss, rendering the shifting distance inside intimacy with candor and delicacy.
Jonathan Coe
A biography of B. S. Johnson built from papers and interviews, presenting both the writer’s experimental energy and the loneliness and collapse that marked his life.
Lorenzo Silva
A police novel centered on Civil Guard investigators. Through the investigation of a series of crimes, it explores law, ethics, and human weakness as a socially engaged mystery praised for its tight plotting and psychological detail.
John Banville
A quiet, elegant novel of memory, loss, and family, in which the narrator revisits a seaside summer from childhood and reflects on the boundaries of life and death.
Joan Bauer
A story about a teenage girl traveling with an older woman while confronting questions of belonging and family. It balances humor with urgency and gives the coming-of-age arc a strong sense of movement and independence.
パトリック・モディアノ, 平岡 篤頼
A man with amnesia wanders through Paris in search of the person he used to be. Absence, identity, and the search for self unfold as a quiet suspense novel.
Ludmila Ulitskaya
A quiet family story that delicately reveals the inner life of a woman through memory and reflection.
Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist
Two children are drawn into an art mystery when a vanished Vermeer painting, strange clues, and coincidence place them at the center of an international scandal.
Philippe Claudel, Hoyt Rogers
A dark novel about a girl's murder in wartime France and the moral fog spreading through the town.
Katherine Hall Page
Faith Fairchild’s family ski reunion is interrupted by a murder in the snow, forcing her into another investigation in a closed winter setting.
Robert Littell
The 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller went to Robert Littell's Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation.
William Pene du Bois
Professor Sherman, after retiring, sets out alone across the Pacific and instead drifts to Krakatoa, where he discovers a secret society of great wealth and a world of wildly imaginative inventions.