The BookScore

In response to an increasing number of requests to score Ayn Rand’s 1957 ode to capitalism Atlas Shrugged,—could it be the election?—set in a dystopian United States with increased Government control, we have searched high and low for any reviews, but have come up empty-handed. Thankfully, just this past August, the LA Times published an article investigating the initial critical response to the novel, citing several of the reviews from the time of its publication.

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Published earlier this month by Atlantic Monthly Press, The Jewels of Paradise is a new novel from the Venetian crime guru Donna Leon, famous for her Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries set in the sinking city. While her new novel retains its Venetian setting, it is a stand-alone novel featuring a young Venetian woman living abroad who returns to her home city to accept an intriguing job offer which leads her to delve deep into the city’s past, where plenty of surprises await her. The book has already been reviewed by the Washington Post, the Independent,  and the Guardian.

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Out earlier this month from Pantheon, the reprint edition of The Fifty Year Sword gives Mark Z. Danielewski’s famous work the mainstream release it has seemingly begged for since just a thousand copies of it were printed in the Netherlands in 2005. The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, and Financial Times have all marked the occasion.

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Published today by Doubleday, Iron Curtain is Anne Applebaum’s much anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag. In this new work, Ms. Applebaum chronicles the birth and lives of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe following the end of the second World War. The book, shortlisted fort the 2012 National Book Award, has already been reviewed by the Washington Post, the Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Independent.

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