The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Colm Tóibín’s The News From Dublin, Tana French’s The Keeper, and Serena Kutchinsky’s Kutchinsky’s Egg all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

Fiction

1. The News from Dublin: Stories by Colm Tóibín
(Scribner)

8 Rave • 5 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Tóibín’s trademark insight, clarity, and precision demand full-hearted attention. In fact, his prose may deserve a literary patent, if only for its music: a particular purity and resonance in the reading ear.”
–Joan Frank (The Boston Globe)

2. The Keeper by Tana French
(Viking)

6 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Shocking, surprising, slyly funny and also deadly serious … French has remained one of the most consistently exciting mystery writers around.”
–Sarah Lyall (The New York Times Book Review)

3. A Good Person by Kirsten King
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons)

4 Rave • 2 Positive

“Even in her delusions and mean-spirited snark-fests, Lillian’s voice is lucid and magnetic for fans of obsessive female narrators.”
–Hudson Warm (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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Nonfiction

1. Kutchinsky’s Egg by Serena Kutchinsky
(Scribner)

6 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Captivating … She comes from a family packed with story-worthy characters, people whose innate sense of drama she has clearly inherited and spun into an irresistible saga.”
–Laura Miller (Slate)

2. The Life You Want by Adam Phillips
(FSG)

1 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Rewarding and nuanced.”
–Stuart Jeffries (The Telegraph)

3. Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team by A. M. Gittlitz
(Astra House)

1 Rave • 3 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Gittlitz writes with the lunatic panache of a utopian manifesto or 2000s sports blog.”
–Timothy Farrington (The Wall Street Journal)