Award-winning Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami skips between alternate worlds in 1Q84 (Knopf Doubleday, 944 pp.), perhaps his most ambitious novel yet. Monitor reviewer Kevin Hartnett calls “1Q84” “an unstoppably readable, deeply moving love story that cements Murakami’s reputation as a uniquely compassionate and imaginative novelist who’s among the leading voices of his global generation.” (CSMonitor.com, 11/2/11)