 |  |  | | | |  | | Some books take readers so far into the reality they treat that they convey a new understanding of the world, and of ourselves. Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo's account of life in a makeshift slum not far from Mumbai's glittering hotels is just such a book: heartbreaking, beautiful, inspiring.
| Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
| | | | | | | In award-winning novels like love story Possession and The Children's Story, A.S. Byatt dives into the past and emerges with riveting tales of love and mystery. Her new book, Ragnarok, is a mix of myth and memoir, exploring Norse legends of the world's end -- as the bombs fall on England during World War Two. | | | | | Raylan by Elmore Leonard | Raylan keeps his own counsel, considers the consequences before he acts, tells those who oppose him what the consequences are, uses violence when it's called for but never revels in it and would just as soon avoid it. Among the other pleasures Leonard and his Kentucky lawman provide, they've restored the cowboy's good name. — From our review by Charles Taylor
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