Nick Hornby has written about the seductive power of pop music in High Fidelity and how a hobby can become an obsession in Fever Pitch. His new novel marries those two themes so perfectly that it deserves one of those smashup names. High Pitch, anyone? Juliet, Naked is the actual title, and it's just right, like so much of this book....

Look past the cover showing the eponymous princess Selene looking more icily Scandinavian than spicily half-Greek/half-Roman and you will find a very readable historical novel with many interesting and well-researched insights into Rome at the time of the ascendency of Octavian.

Although I'm pretty sure there's not a 12-step program for Twilight addiction, I must say that this series was a true page-turner.  Stephenie Meyer has bitten into a genre that I would have said was pretty drained of potential, the "supernatural romance", and produced what will probably (and rightfully) be seen as its preeminent work.

Not long after, the author suffered a fatal coronary. His death, which truncated Larsson's stewardship of the liberal investigative journal Expo, sparked a susurrus rustle of conspiracy theories; it also sounded a grace note amid the chorus of praise heralding "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," his posthumous debut.

The impossibility of closure after great crimes, no matter how many tribunals and truth-and-reconciliation commissions we may launch, is the subject of Toronto author Kim Echlin's absorbing new novel, The Disappeared. Echlin, one of Canada's finest prose stylists, approaches her subject with the delicacy and solemnity it deserves. In the end, though, it begs the question: Is a beautiful work of art, which The Disappeared certainly is, the appropriate response to a holocaust?

Hackberry Holland is in his 70s, and, like so many of Burke's heroes, has given up drinking, but not his grief over his past. He mourns his second wife, Rie, a tough liberal organizer, and misses his two sons, who have gone on to establish successful lives of their own. He has no regrets about leaving politics behind, but he is content to tilt at the windmills in his path, and in "Rain Gods," there are many.

One reason why fans hunger for the next installment in the Plum series is the familiarity with the characters, setting and comedic mayhem that Evanovich provides in each story. But as funny as "Finger Lickin' Fifteen" is -- and it is funny -- nothing much changes in Stephanie's life, and it may be time for her to move on.

'It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion'.

Piscine 'Pi" Molitor Patel is an Indian boy from Pondicherry who after exploring issues of religion and spirituality, has to draw on what he has learned to survive 227 days in a lifeboat after the ship he was travelling on suddenly sinks at sea.

If you like the intellectual challenge of the metafiction of J.M. Coetzee or Paul Auster, or the sheer spiraling loopiness of Charlie Kaufman films such as "Adaptation," then grab a copy and prepare to enjoy a meditation on culture, modern Iran, and the power of what is left out. Oh, and make sure you read all the crossed-out lines: There's some pretty pivotal information hiding under there... Read More

Jonathan Franzens consuming novel, The Corrections, tells the spellbinding story of the Lamberts, a Midwestern family, slowly unravelling as the threads that had bound them weaken and break with the ravages of time.  Read More

The wind up bird chronicle becomes jarring when it moves from modern Japan to these 1933 stories which we read as part of this novel. This work is over 600 pages and according to Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel (World Literature Today, Vol. 73, No.2, Spring 1999) has been subject to extensive cutting... Read More

If in writing this novel, Paulo Coelho's intention was to awaken, in his reader, a sense of belief in self and in destiny, then I must say he has been incredibly successful on both counts. In its simplest form, The Alchemist is a tale of travel and adventure, of a young Andalusian shepherd on a quest for a worldly treasure... Read More

Murakami's art lies in his descriptions of the simple details of the general life of a modern Japanese people juxtaposed against bizarre happenings straight out of a dream sequence, and the simplicity of expression that allows for ease of comprehension when Murakami takes you on a strange wander through his out-of-this-world narrative... Read More

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The writing was realistic from the joy of dancing to the loss of her mother to the traumas of marriage.  Read More.

Jeanette Winterson's  most recent  work  is  a worth while read on one level , for the story is  engaging and entertaining ,  and on another level a book that will provoke thought in us all. Read More

I want to say from the outset that I came to this book without any Great Expectations. I wasn't aware when I started reading this book that it had been nominated and subsequently shortlisted for the Mann. Read More

An opinion is neither pushed by hard sell nor pulled by popular views, however, an honest opinion is subjective. In my subjective opinion, this book is every bit worth its penny. Read More

Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' (2006) has been herald as the classic of the century. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. So what is it about this relatively small work by Read More