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!

This week’s Best Book is Swamplandia! by Karen Russell.

I hope everyone got a chance to enjoy the postings for Literary Wives this week, too!

This week was a tough one, with a close competition between Beautiful Ruins, and a nonfiction book, a fascinating explanation of earth forces. For once, I pick the nonfiction, Annals of the Former World: Basin and Range.

First, those of you who have looked closely at the blog the last few days might have noticed a new feature. Under the List of Books, I have added links from the title of each book directly to its review. This feature should make it easier for you to find the reviews of books that interest you. I’m sorry I didn’t do it sooner. I thought it would add all of the links into my comments section, like it does when I put links to my blog articles in other articles. However, I have figured out how to avoid that, too!

Now, on to the Best Book for the week, which this week is Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido!

This week was a tough one, because Bridge of Sighs is a very good book. But for sheer reading enjoyment and excitement, I have to pick A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin.

This week’s Best Book is Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan.

Hi, all, I realized last week that if I continued reviewing books at this pace, I would soon run out of my backlog of notes about books I’ve already read. (No, I do not read this many books a week!) If I catch up, then I won’t be able to post reviews except as I finish books, which will make my review postings a lot less frequent. I am trying to post as often as possible. So, starting today, my Best Book post is going to count as my daily post intead of being supplementary to a review. I will not number it, though, because I count my “week” as every five reviews.

Thanks for reading my blog!

This week’s Best Book is A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré!