Good Fiction Guide

This thick, well‐designed but weakly bound reference guide is aimed at readers who want new ideas for furthering their reading. It will sit comfortably with more literary reference works such as the Oxford Companion to English Literature and The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth Century Writers. The scope of the Good Fiction Guide is broad and eclectic and any criticism one may have of the choices and currency is recognized by the editor in her introduction. This is not a definitive guide, nor, by its nature, completely up to date. Some of the choices in the first part of the...