The celebrated travel writer turns his gaze on the world inside.

Mother Nature's dark side comes to the fore in Benamin Percy's tale of a woodland excursion gone wrong.

A mid-life search for meaning in an increasingly commodified world, from the author of The Hours.

A philosopher argues for honor as a key moral concept—and as the catalyst for moral revolutions.

A lovelorn demon makes appointments with Sigmund Freud in this novel of fin de siecle Vienna.

Brits complain that today's fiction relies too much on faddish narration style.

Paul Murray embraces tragedy and ribald comedy with a coming-of-age tale set in an Irish boys' school.

A new life of the trailblazing activist and peace advocate who founded Hull House.

An obnoxious stepfather, a lovely burglar, and an overwhelmed young math teacher wrestle with words.

An argument that one of the core beliefs of our age was only recently invented.

An audaciously crafted novel tells the story of a mother and child's captivity and escape from a unique, affecting point of view.

A rescue gone wrong puts a tale of crime, punishment, and forgiveness in motion.

New verse from Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon offers complementary visions of the poet's vocation.

Nobel Laureate José Saramago's playful tale takes a trip through 16^th-century Europe on a pachyderm's back.

Which young-adult crossover hit series has the most empowered heroine? You'd be surprised.

A metafictional foray into writing and not writing, by a novelist writing what she knows.

An impassioned history of the Great Migration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West between 1910 and 1970.

Encryption and early 20^th-century technology provide the Pynchon-esque atmosphere for this ambitious, adventurous novel.

The author of Smashed returns with a second memoir, a diary-like exploration of her angers and their repression.

The author of Water for Elephants returns with a captivating novel about a "lively, witty, warm-hearted and sharp" sextet of bonobos.