SCIENCE FICTION Ready Player One "Ernest Cline wrote a nostalgia delivery system so effective it became the thing it was nostalgic for." Read Review
MUSIC BIOGRAPHY God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson "Tom Leaf's oral history assembles the voices around Brian Wilson into a symphony of perspectives—finally, a Beach Boys book that understands pop genius as collaborative act." Read Review
FICTION The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle "A missing cat, a dry well, a war crime in Manchuria. The connections never resolve. That's the point." Read Review
ROMANCE NOVEL Persuasion "Jane Austen's final completed novel is her quietest and her deepest—a story of second chances that understands what first chances cost." Read Review
COMING OF AGE NOVEL The Catcher in the Rye "Holden Caulfield called everyone a phony in 1951 and hasn't stopped—J.D. Salinger's only novel remains the definitive text on adolescent alienation because it refuses to resolve into wisdom." Read Review
LITERARY FICTION Catch-22 "Joseph Heller wrote a war novel so funny it makes you forget you're reading about death, and then makes you remember." Read Review
TRUE CRIME BOOK In Cold Blood "Truman Capote invented the nonfiction novel by spending six years with two murderers—the result was a book that reads like fiction and haunts like fact." Read Review
POETRY The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "T.S. Eliot wrote a poem about paralysis that changed what poetry could do." Read Review
LITERARY FICTION To the Lighthouse "Virginia Woolf wrote a novel where almost nothing happens, and everything changes." Read Review
LITERARY FICTION Pale Fire "Vladimir Nabokov wrote a novel disguised as a poem with commentary, and hid a murder mystery inside." Read Review
