John Irving's In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of the novel's bisexual narrator and main character, Billy Abbott. As Billy says: "We are formed by what we desire."
Looking for your next book club pick? Get everyone in your club talking with these carefully selected books that include our helpful reading group guides.
Paperback
- Swamplandia!
Karen Russell - The Blue Light Project
Timothy Taylor - Please Look After Mom
Kyung-Sook Shin - The Uninvited Guests
Sadie Jones - Irma Voth
Miriam Toews - The Winter Palace
Eva Stachniak - Web of Angels
Lilian Nattel - The Midwife of Venice
Roberta Rich
Hardcover
- Why Men Lie
Linden MacIntyre - I Am an Executioner
Rajesh Parameswaran - The Virgin Cure
Ami McKay - The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes - The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst - History of a Pleasure Seeker
Richard Mason - 1Q84
Haruki Murakami - The Beginner's Goodbye
Anne Tyler
If you liked Linden MacIntyre's award-winning novel The Bishop's Man, you'll love its follow-up, which has just been released. Why Men Lie tells the story of Effie, sister to the troubled priest Duncan. There is a fantastic interview with Linden here — this is a writer at the top of his game.
If you like illuminating memoirs like Open or The Year of Magical Thinking, you'll love Then Again by actress Diane Keaton. The book is as much about Diane as it is about her mother (Diane mines her mother's eighty-five journals). Diane will in Toronto next week and I'm hoping to attend an event where I'll get to meet her.
Vincent Lam on His New Novel The Headmaster's Wager
From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.
From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.
A Message to Readers from Alexander McCall Smith
In the latest endearing installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, our resourceful heroine, Precious Ramotswe, whose primary mission is to help people with the problems in their lives, has her hands full.
In the latest endearing installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, our resourceful heroine, Precious Ramotswe, whose primary mission is to help people with the problems in their lives, has her hands full.