Word of Mouth Recommendations

 If your looking for reading suggestions, Shelf Awareness is posting a series of word-of-mouth recommendations. Among those making the end-of-summer must read list are:

Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell: A modern, female take on Huck Finn.

The Astral by Kate Christensen: A man's midlife crisis gets him out of a rut.

The Last Werewolf by Glenn Duncan: Smart, sexy creature-rific fun.

Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson: An utterly different take on the 1980s

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman: A Ghanaian boy's life in the London projects.

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante: A narrator with Alzheimer's involved in a murder.

A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano: Flannery O'Connor flirts with a married man.

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett: Passion and plotting in the Amazon rain forest.

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles: Manhattan in the 1930s is both glitzy--and sad.

Zazen by Vanessa Veselka: In a dystopian America, a young woman lives and loves.