Want to read: Atul Gawande - Being mortal

Managing mortality with less cruelty

Want to read: Laurence Steinburg - Age of Opportunity, Lessons from the new science of adolescence

Want to read: Emily St John Mandel - Station Eleven

Post-apocalyptic. Jumps around in time. Sounds a bit like The Time Traveller's Wife perhaps.

Want to read: Jeff Vandermeer - Southern Reach trilogy

Fantasy. Good review in Globe & Mail.

Want to read: Andrew Sean Greer - The impossible lives of Greta Wells

Electroshock therapy causes Greta to change places with two other versions of herself, from different periods in time.

Read: Lev Grossman - The magicians; The magician king

Both of these books are a clever send-up of classic magical adventure stories. Too clever - the overall plot summary and occasional line of dialogue are amusing, but the lack of soul was dispiriting before long. And the books are long. There's something of a redemption at the end, but it only constitutes a fraction of a percent of the totality, and doesn't make it worthwhile.

Want to read: Charles Ferneyhough - A thousand days of wonder

About the first thousand days of a child's life. Also titled "The baby in the mirror" in the UK.