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PICKS FOR YEAR’S BEST 10 BOOKS
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The Luminaries
By Eleanor Catton, Little, Brown, US$27
In her Booker Prize winner, a love story and mystery set in New Zealand, Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, while creating something utterly new for the 21st.
THIS TOWN: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus Plenty of Valet Parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital
By Mark Leibovich, Blue Rider, US$27.95
An entertaining and deeply troubling view of Washington.
Doctor Sleep
By Stephen King, Scribner, US$30
Now grown up, Danny, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in “The Shining,” helps another threatened magic child in a novel that shares the virtues of King’s best work.
Wave
By Sonali Deraniyagala, Knopf, US$24
Deraniyagala’s unforgettable account of her struggle to carry on living after her husband, sons and parents were killed in the 2004 tsunami isn’t only as unsparing as they come, but also defiantly imbued with light.
The Goldfinch
By Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, US$30
The “Goldfinch” of the title of Tartt’s smartly written Dickensian novel is a painting smuggled through the early years of a boy’s life — his prize, his guilt and his burden.
WILD ONES: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
By Jon Mooallem, Penguin Press, US$27.95
Mooallem explores the haphazard nature of our efforts to protect endangered species.
The Good Lord Bird
By James McBride, Riverhead, US$27.95
McBride’s romp of a novel, the 2013 National Book Award winner, is narrated by a freed slave boy who passes as a girl. It’s a risky portrait of the radical abolitionist John Brown in which irreverence becomes a new form of homage.
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
By Sheri Fink, Crown, US$27
The case of a surgeon suspected of euthanizing patients during the Katrina disaster.
The Valley of Amazement
By Amy Tan, Ecco/HarperCollins, US$29.99
This wrenching novel by the author of “The Joy Luck Club” follows mother and daughter courtesans over four decades.
LEAN IN: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
By Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell, Knopf, US$24.95
The lesson conveyed loud and clear by the Facebook executive is that women should step forward and not doubt their ability to combine work and family.
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