And it begins August 12th, with the release of Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. In its first week in Japan, the book sold a million copies. Carolyn says Murakami is the dream of all who love literature: blockbuster sales plus inventive storytelling.
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- A Girl is a Half Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- 10:04 by Ben Lerner
- Perfidia by James Ellroy
- Lila by Marilynne Robinson
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
- The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
- Prison Noir edited by Joyce Carol Oates
- Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (whom Carolyn calls one of her favorites.)