March 31, 2012
The Quest to Know God: Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Men
CPU transistor counts since 1960. IQ test scores for African-American boys from single-parent families. An epidemiological analysis of the spread of a methamphetamine drug in Thailand. What do these things have in common? A Wall Street mathematician in Gods Without Men thinks he has found a slender thread that links them -- although what it means is beyond his grasp.
Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels