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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the July 2nd issue include:

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, by David Mitchell. Random House. Print length: 528 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...channel-surfs between genres, introducing elements of the romance, the thriller, the war novel, and the novel of ideas." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (28 reviews). Kindle edition $12.87. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the 'high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island' that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken." - http://www.thousandautumns.com/
$9.99 or less alternative: Ghostwritten, Mitchell's debut novel.

The Lovers, by Vendela Vida. Harper Collins. Print length: 240 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...a novel that demands a movie version starring Meryl Streep." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Twenty-eight years ago, Peter and Yvonne honeymooned in the beautiful coastal village of Datça, Turkey. Now Yvonne is a widow, her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of a happier time - as well as sand and sea - Yvonne returns to Datça. But her plans for a restorative week in Turkey are quickly complicated. Instead of comforting her, her memories begin to trouble her. Her vacation rental's landlord and his bold, intriguing wife - who share a curious marital arrangement - become constant uninvited visitors, in and out of the house. Overwhelmed by the past and unexpectedly dislocated by the environment, Yvonne clings to a newfound friendship with Ahmet, a local boy who makes his living as a shell collector. With Ahmet as her guide, Yvonne gains new insight into the lives of her own adult children, and she finally begins to enjoy the shimmering sea and relaxed pace of the Turkish coast. But a devastating accident upends her delicate peace..." - www.harpercollins.com.
$9.99 or less alternative: Off Season, by Anne Rivers Siddons.

Go, Mutants!, by Larry Doyle. Harper Collins. Print length: 368 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...an atomized fusion of 1950s pop cultural elements..." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $10.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Earth has survived repeated alien invasions, attacks by hordes of mutants, and the ravages of ancient beasts brought back to life. Now we're in the blissful future...for most. J!m, the son of the alien who nearly destroyed the planet, is a brooding, megacephalic rebel with a big forehead and exceptionally oily skin. Along with Johnny, a radioactive biker ape, and Jelly, a gelatinous mass passing as a fat kid, J!m navigates a particularly unpleasant adolescence in which he really is as alienated as he feels, the world might actually be out to get him, and true love is complicated by misunderstanding and incompatible parts. As harmless school antics escalate into explosive events with tragic consequences, J!m makes a discovery that will alter the course of civilization... Go, Mutants! is fun strapped to an atomic rocket, and Doyle's deadpan delivery and razor-sharp wit will have you laughing out loud before he even starts the ignition sequence." - www.harpercollins.com.
$9.99 or less alternative: I Love You, Beth Cooper, Doyle's other teenage angst novel - without the space aliens part.

Kraken, by China Mieville. Del Rey. Print length: 368 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...lobs a grenade into the urban-fantasy genre, remaking it into wild comedy..." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (24 reviews). Kindle edition $14.30. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"In the Darwin Centre at London’s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre’s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux - better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy’s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens - human and otherwise - are adept in magic and murder." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: Mieville's earlier Perdido Street Station.