Childhood as performance art

The Family Fang is a funny and strange novel about a performance artist couple who raise their children to paticipate in their "art" and warp them in the process. Japanese author, Haruki Murakami's, new book, 1q84, is an homage to George Orwell's 1984. The Leftovers by Tom Perrota tells the story of the people who must learn to cope after being left behind by the Rapture, but it's more comic than tragic, and less about the book of Revelation than about the human condition. Browse through the list, lots of new books by favorite authors appear there!

Barnes, Julian. Pulse: Stories. Knopf Publishing Group. 5/3/2011. Short Stories

Boyd, Noah. The Bricklayer. William Morrow & Company. 2/1/2010.

Brown, Rita Mae. Murder Unleashed. Ballantine Books. 10/4/2011.

Castillo, Linda. Breaking Silence. Minotaur Books. 6/21/2011. Mystery

Child, Lee. The Affair: A Reacher Novel. Delacorte Press. 10/18/2011.

Dams, Jeanne M. A Dark and Stormy Night. Severn House Publishers. 4/1/2011. Mystery

Doctorow, E.L. All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories. Random House. 3/22/2011. Short Stories

Dunmore, Helen. The Betrayal. Grove Press. 9/6/2011.

Estep, Jennifer. Tangled Threads. Pocket Books. 4/26/2011. Fantasy

Frazier, Charles. Nightwoods. Random House. 10/4/2011.

Guterson, David. Ed King. Alfred A. Knopf. 10/18/2011.

Habel, Lia. Dearly, Departed. Del Rey Books. 10/18/2011.

Harrison, Jim. The Great Leader. Grove Press. 10/4/2011.

Hollinghurst, Alan. The Stranger's Child. Knopf Publishing Group. 10/11/2011.

Liss, David. The Darkening Green. Random House. 10/11/2011.

Meyer, Deon. Trackers. Atlantic Monthly Press. 9/6/2011.

Murakami, Haruki. 1q84. Knopf Publishing Group. 10/25/2011.

Nesser, Hakan. The Inspector and Silence: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery. Pantheon Books. 6/14/2011. Mystery

Ondaatje, Michael. The Cat's Table. Knopf Publishing Group. 10/4/2011.

Pelecanos, George. The Cut. Little Brown and Company. 8/1/2011. Mystery

Perrotta, Tom. Leftovers. St. Martin's Press. 8/30/2011.

Perry, Anne. A Christmas Homecoming. Ballantine Books. 10/25/2011.

Poole, Sara. Borgia Betrayal. St. Martin's Griffin. 6/7/2011.

Reece, Gordon. Mice. Viking Books. 8/18/2011.

Reichs, Kathy. Flash and Bones. Scribner Book Company. 8/23/2011.

Schlesak, Dieter. Druggist of Auschwitz. Farrar Straus Giroux. 4/26/2011.

Smith, Wilbur. Those in Peril. Thomas Dunne Books. 5/10/2011.

Weir, Ian. Daniel O'Thunder. Douglas & McIntyre. 4/1/2011. New A Pab

Wilson, Kevin. The Family Fang. Ecco Press. 8/9/2011.

Wolff, Isabel. The Very Picture of You. Bantam. 10/4/2011.