This week’s Best Book is Burial Rites by Hannah Kent!

This week’s Best Book is The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert!

This week’s Best Book is Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson!

This week’s Best Book is In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien! A close competitor was The Son by Philipp Meyer.

This week’s Best Book is The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson!

This week’s Best Book is The Mansion by William Faulkner!

This week’s Best Book is The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye!

Please note another new feature, added today. If you look under the List of Books menu at the top of my page, you can see a new option, Best Books and Contenders. Some weeks it is difficult to pick a best book because there is more than one that is very good. Other weeks, the best book is weaker than one that was not chosen on another week. So, this list contains all the books I thought were very good.

This week’s Best Book is The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri!

This week’s Best Book is Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears!

This week’s Best Book is The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri!