“In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.” OrderNovelHollywoodSmellAcquireFinestLeatherBinding Author:Ernst Lubitsch
“Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.” WorldLooksSaidDifferentNovelReaderLettersLook UpComplimentFinestDictionaryDifferent WorldsSingle WordLexicon Author:Randall Jarrell
“I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.” ThinkingMayImportantBookDreamLosesNumbersNovelWrittenReaderMy FavoriteFinestFear Of DeathTributeSomewhere In Time Author:Richard Matheson
“Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.” PowerfulNovelSafeNeighborFinestStorytellerMasterpiece Author:Jill McCorkle
“40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.” WritingBookCharacterBeautifulLanguageCompassionNovelGraceStyleCrimeSorrowBrilliantSuspenseDemonPlotThroatFinestUncommonBluntUnforgettableCrime Novels Author:Jonathan Kellerman
“Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.” AmericaNovelMajorsHeightFinestLarks Author:Robert Olen Butler
“Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.” MenJusticeNovelDoubtCenturySeasonsEnglandOriginalsNarrativeOne ManDividedFinestPortraits20th CenturyExileJohnsonEloquentMigrationSudan Author:Hisham Matar