All of these books have been chosen by at least 5 of the following publications. Here is the abbreviation code.

AM         Amazon                           BG       Boston Globe                       

BL   Booklist                                   BN       Barnes and Noble                 

BP   Bookpage                               CSM    Christian Science Monitor 

CT  Chicago Times                        Econ         Economist                         

EW  Entertainment Weekly        GM  Globe and Mail

GR   Good Reads                           Hud      Hudson Booksellers 

KCS      Kansas City Star                Kir   Kirkus                                  

LJ         Library Journal                  MST  Minn. Star Tribune

NPR    National Public Radio       NYT      New York Times                 

Opr   Oprah             Peo      People                                  

PJ   Providence Journal                 PW         Publishers Weekly            

Sea   Seattle Times                        STLPD   St. Louis Post Dispatch     

Tel  Telegraph                                Time      Time Magazine                  

WP  Washington Post                  USA USA Today

Publisher: Random House Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/14/2013
ISBN-13: 9780307271082
ISBN-10: 0307271080

Separated by respective ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America while exploring new concepts of race, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland 15 years later, where they face the toughest decisions of their lives. By the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun. BL, CT, EW, NPR, NYT, Sea

First Chapter  

Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/02/2013
ISBN-13: 9780316176484
ISBN-10: 0316176486

The award-winning author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum follows the experiences of a woman who after being born on a snowy night in 1910 repeated dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and ultimately save the world. AM, BL, BN, BP, CSM, CT, Econ, EW, GM, GR, Hud, Kir, LJ, NYT, PW, Sea, STLPD, Time, USA

First Chapter  

Publisher: Random House Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/03/2013
ISBN-13: 9780385528788
ISBN-10: 0385528787

A conclusion to the trilogy that includes Oryx and Crake finds Toby and Ren returning to the MaddAddamite cob house after rescuing Amanda and assuming the duties of the Craker's religious overseers while Zeb searches for the founder of the pacifist green religion he left years earlier. CSM, GM, NPR, NYT, PW, STLPD, WP

Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/15/2013
ISBN-13: 9780316074315
ISBN-10: 0316074314

Prostitute Anna Wetherell is arrested on the same day that three men with various connections to her disappear from a coastal New Zealand town during the 1866 gold rush in this new novel from the author of The Rehearsal. AM, BN, CSM, Econ, GR, Kir, Tel, WP

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/27/2013
ISBN-13: 9780307271792
ISBN-10: 030727179X

When a vibrant 7-year-old disappears from her Haitian community at the same time her father agonizingly decides to give her up so that she can have a better life, an ensuing search reveals the painful stories of neighbors whose lives the child touched. By the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Breath, Eyes, Memory. BG, CSM, NPR, NYT, PW, WP

First Chapter  Table of Contents  

Publisher: Random House Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/08/2013
ISBN-13: 9780385351393
ISBN-10: 0385351399

"The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful Internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge". AM, BL, BN, NPR, NYT, PJ, STLPD

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/30/2013
ISBN-13: 9780399162091
ISBN-10: 0399162097

Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister. By the best-selling author of The Jane Austen Book Club. BP, CSM, CT, LJ, NYT

Publisher: Twelve
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/05/2013
ISBN-13: 9781455512133
ISBN-10: 1455512133

Ensconced in a correctional facility at the height of a custody battle with his estranged wife, Erik, a first-generation East German immigrant who changed his name as a youth, surveys his childhood, marriage and experience as a father to consider the disparity between his original and assumed identities. By the author of Feed Me. Kir, MST, NYT, PW, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/18/2013
ISBN-13: 9780062255655
ISBN-10: 0062255657

When otherworldly beings are set loose on the world, threatening the life of a little boy, the extraordinary Hempstock women--Lettie, her mother and her grandmother--summon all of their courage and cleverness to keep him alive, but soon discover that his survival comes with a high--and deadly--price. BN, GM, GR, Hud, Kir, NPR, Time

Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/30/2013
ISBN-13: 9780316206846
ISBN-10: 0316206849

Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers and hedonist pursuits. AM, GM, GR, Kir, NPR, Opr

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2013
ISBN-13: 9780670024858
ISBN-10: 0670024856

Encompassing both the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, this sweeping, multigenerational saga begins with Henry Whittaker, an ambitious English botanist who becomes the richest man in Philadelphia after making his fortune in the quinine trade. His daughter Alma proves to be a prodigy, but her plain looks and studious nature bring few suitors to her door. As sensual as she is scholarly, Alma longs for a soul mate -- and finds one in the form of illustrator Ambrose Pike. However, her intellectual interests clash with his spiritual temperament, prompting Alma to embark on a voyage around the world as she pursues both scientific discovery and personal fulfillment. AM, BL, BN, CT, GR, NYT, Opr, PW, Sea, STLPD, Time, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: Riverhead Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/05/2013
ISBN-13: 9781594487293
ISBN-10: 1594487294

Imaginatively written in the style of a self-help manual, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia follows the journey of a poor rural boy as he becomes a wealthy business tycoon, but it also offers commentary on the social challenges facing developing economies. But there's no need to fear that the novel is dry, boring, or self-involved; in fact it's quite the opposite. Despite certain imprecise details (the city could be any of a number in south Asia), the immediacy of the prose ("At each subsequent wonder you think you have arrived...") and the eventfulness of the main character's life (both in work and in love) combine to create a book that is both "marvelous and moving" (TIME magazine). BG, CSM, CT, NPR, PW

First Chapter  

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/21/2013
ISBN-13: 9781594631764
ISBN-10: 159463176X

The best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. AM, BL, BN, CSM, CT, EW, GM, GR, Hud, LJ, NPR, PW, STLPD, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/02/2013
ISBN-13: 9781439142004
ISBN-10: 1439142009

Arriving in New York to pursue a creative career in the raucous 1970s art scene, Reno joins a group of dreamers and raconteurs before falling in love with the estranged son of an Italian motorcycle scion and succumbing to a radical social movement in 1977 Italy. By the National Book Award-nominated author of Telex from Cuba. GM, NYT, Opr, PW, Time, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: Random House Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/24/2013
ISBN-13: 9780307265746
ISBN-10: 0307265749

Frequently mistaken for one another in spite of very different natures, brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue respective lives in rebellion-torn 1960s Calcutta until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Unaccustomed Earth. AM, BL, BN, CSM, CT, GM, GR, Hud, Kir, NYT, Peo, PJ, STLPD, Time, USA 

First Chapter  

Publisher: Hogarth
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/07/2013
ISBN-13: 9780770436407
ISBN-10: 0770436404

A first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer is set in a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, where failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child. BL, CSM, CT, GM, GR, Kir, LJ, NPR, NYT, PW, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/20/2013
ISBN-13: 9781594486340
ISBN-10: 1594486344

Fleeing her violent master at the side of legendary abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-19th-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. By the best-selling author of The Color of Water. AM, BG, BL, BN, CT, Kir, NPR, NYT, Opr, PW, STLPD, USA, WP

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Publisher: Random House Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/04/2013
ISBN-13: 9781400069590
ISBN-10: 1400069599

A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan. By the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin. BN, CT, GM, Kir, Sea

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/10/2013
ISBN-13: 9780374281090
ISBN-10: 0374281092

The National Book Award-winning author chronicles the ordinary life of a woman named Marie, from her childhood to old age, as she experiences the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn, in this novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived. CT, Kir, NPR, NYT, PW, STLPD, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/30/2013
ISBN-13: 9780307596901
ISBN-10: 0307596907

Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal. By the award-winning author of The Emperor's Children.  AM, BG, BN, CT, GM, Kir, MST, NYT, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: Ecco
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/28/2013
ISBN-13: 9780062120397
ISBN-10: 0062120395

Kidnapped by the Comanche after his mother and sister are brutally murdered, brave and clever 13-year-old Eli McCullough quickly adapts to Comanche life until the tribe is decimated by armed Americans, leaving Eli alone in a world where he is neither white nor Indian. AM, BP, EW, GM, Hud, Kir, LJ, MST, NYT, Tel, USA, 

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/12/2013
ISBN-13: 9780670026630
ISBN-10: 0670026638

A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore in this new novel from the award-wining, best-selling author of My Year of Meats. AM, BL, BP, CSM, GM, GR, Kir, MST, NPR, Sea, STLPD, WP

Publisher: Minotaur Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2013
ISBN-13: 9780312655471
ISBN-10: 0312655479

First Chapter  

Publisher: Random House Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/20/2013
ISBN-13: 9781400067886
ISBN-10: 140006788X

When the daughter of an enigmatic cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death while being drawn into the director's eerie world. By the author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics. BL, GR, Kir, NPR, STLPD

First Chapter  

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/17/2013
ISBN-13: 9781594204234
ISBN-10: 1594204233

An average mother of two working in investigation fraud gets drawn into a shady and eccentric underworld after looking into the finances of a billionaire computer geek in this new novel from the author of V and Gravity's Rainbow. BG, BN, Kir, LJ, NYT, PJ, PW, Sea, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/12/2013
ISBN-13: 9780307957238
ISBN-10: 0307957233

A new collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of Swamplandia! features such protagonists as a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe through objects from a seagull nest and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the images on his body. BG, GM, NPR, Opr, WP

First Chapter  

Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/08/2013
ISBN-13: 9780812993806
ISBN-10: 0812993802

A collection of stories by the author of Pastoralia includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit. AM, BG, BP, CT, EW, GM, GR, KCS, Kir, NPR, NYT, Peo, PJ, PW, STLPD, Time

First Chapter  

Publisher: Pgw
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/03/2013
ISBN-13: 9780802119827
ISBN-10: 0802119824

During the late 1990s, humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful and seductive photojournalist named Jackie Scott during a time of brutal guerrilla warfare and civilian kidnappings. BL, EW, LJ, NPR, Opr, WP

Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/22/2013
ISBN-13: 9780316055437
ISBN-10: 0316055433

Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue in this new novel by the author of The Secret History. AM, BL, CSM, CT, Econ, GM, GR, Kir, MST, NPR, NYT, Peo, PW, Sea, STLPD, Tel, USA

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2013
ISBN-13: 9781594487484
ISBN-10: 1594487480

A U.S. release of an award-winning novel by the author of The Informers finds Bogotá resident Antonio Yammara reflecting on a mid-20th-century uprising between Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and government forces that trapped Pablo's community in a nightmarish existence and culminated in a friend's murder. AM, BL, BN, CSM, NPR, NYT

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Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/09/2013
ISBN-13: 9781594488399
ISBN-10: 1594488398

Forging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue respective challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers. AM, BN, EW, NPR, NYT, Peo, Opr, Time, WP