Against the Day
by Thomas Pynchon | 
The Philosopher's Flight
by Tom Miller |
Gene of Isis
by Traci Harding |
Redwood and Wildfire
by Andrea Hairston |
The Last Days of New Paris
by China Mieville | 
Blonde Roots
by Bernardine Evaristo | 
The Teleportation Accident
by Ned Beauman | 
Poor Things
by Alasdair Gray | 
Time's Arrow
by Martin Amis | 
How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig |
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
by Curtis Craddock |
Buffalo Soldier
by Maurice Broaddus |
The House of Rumour
by Jake Arnott | 
Romanitas
by Sophia McDougall | 
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates | 
Circe
by Madeline Miller |
Precipice
by Travis Bagwell | 
The End of Mr. Y
by Scarlett Thomas | 
BioShock: Rapture
by John Shirley |
Apathy
by Travis Bagwell |
Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this "magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic" (Guardian) by Alan Moore--the genre-defying, "groundbreaking, hairy genius of our generation" (NPR)--takes its place among the most notable works of contemporary English literature. In decaying Northampton, eternity loiters between housing projects. Among saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a timeline unravels: second-century fiends wait in urine-scented stairwells, delinquent specters undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors, laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake's eternal holy city in "Moore's apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony" (Entertainment Weekly). This "brilliant . . . monumentally ambitious" tale from the gutter is "a massive literary achievement for our time--and maybe for all times simultaneously" (Washington Post).