Reader's Choice: Fiction: Egan - Ishiguro

In a follow-up to “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” a new technology gives the potential to save and share every memory one has ever had.

A novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

Old world meets new in this poignant tale of the power of love and magic of song. Erdrich’s gentle voice weaves many stories around the German WWI sniper who becomes the butcher and the singer and the lover of Argus, North Dakota.

A startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation.

The very odd, but believable story of Cal, 41-year-old hermaphrodite, born as baby girl, Calliope. Tenderhearted saga of a Greek-American family harboring a genetic oddity.

A rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila - this meticulous portrait of these two women is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.

This Is How It Always Is explores the travails of a modern family, where challenges about a child's gender are the same as any other struggles of growing up.

This unique love story is set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.

After a devastating hurricane hits Puerto Rico, Olga is visited in New York by her mother, who abandoned her as a child to advance a militant political cause.

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his 50th birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself and making connections with the past.

A Ph. D candidate in neuroscience at Stanford tries to understand her Ghanaian family’s heritage of striving and loss.

This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

Halliday, recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award, crafts a stellar and inventive debut, a puzzle of seemingly incongruous pieces that, in the end, fit together perfectly.

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city.

As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.

The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.

Two brothers freed by the Emancipation Proclamation hope to reunite with their mother while the forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers causes chaos.

Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society.

A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision.

In a seaside town in Maine, a former Major League pitcher and a grieving widow assess their pasts.

Eleanor Oliphant struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.

Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.

An “Artificial Friend” named Klara is purchased to serve as a companion to an ailing 14-year-old girl.