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On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune (Berkley: 18) Paperback nonfiction. Both he and Josie are haunted by the work of the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides, a doctor and rationalist who sought to reconcile faith and science. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. The Idiot by Elif Batuman (Penguin: 18) 10. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary.

The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s astonishingly funny and candid semi-autobiographical novel, is ostensibly, a coming-of-age, portrait-of-a-young-artist story. Only once you realize this do you become free. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. In the opening monologue of Park Chan-wook’s film Stoker, the teenage female protagonist India muses, we are not responsible for what we come to be.

A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.The year is 1995, and email is new. A portrait of the artist as a young woman.