FICTION
1 | THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
John Green
Hazel and her boyfriend Augustus are in love. They also have cancer, which means they have to face up to the prospect of death on a daily basis. While it's technically a young-adult novel, this is one of the most genuine and moving love stories in recent American fiction, literary or otherwise, and an existential tragedy of towering intelligence, sadness and integrity.
2 | BRING UP THE BODIES
Hilary Mantel
In the second book in her two-for-two Booker-winning series, Mantel deepens her portrait of master Tudor puppeteer Thomas Cromwell as he...