Featuring Maria Semple, Gwendoline Riley, Lena Dunham, and more

Maria Semple’s Go Gentle , Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House , Antony Beevor’s Rasputin , and Lena Dunham’s Famesick all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

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Fiction

1. Go Gentle by Maria Semple

(G. P. Putnam)

7 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Semple frappes it all together into a wild ride of a book that’s delightful while you’re reading it and that lingers long after you’re done.”

–Chris Hewitt ( The Star Tribune )

2. The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley

(NYRB)

6 Rave • 2 Positive

“Riley’s work recasts our relationship with the familiar, transforming ordinary, unremarkable lives of her characters into something startling and new.”

–Clare Clark ( The Guardian )

3. Lázár by Nelio Bidermann, trans.…