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“Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent.” -The Boston Globe

“Moving. . . . Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks’s real-life stories.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"This is an amazing novel. An amazing book." -The Dallas Morning News

“A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy.” -Ian McEwan, author of Atonement

“Brilliant. . . . Delightful. . . . Very moving, very plausible-and very funny.” -Oliver Sacks

“Superb. . . . Bits of wisdom fairly leap off the page.” -Newsday

“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect. . . . As suspenseful and harrowing as anything in Conan Doyle.” -Jay McInerney, The New York Times Book Review

“Extraordinarily moving, often blackly funny. . . . It is hard to think of anyone who would not be moved and delighted by this book.” -Financial Times, London

"Both clever and observant." -The Washington Post

“Full of whimsical surprises and tender humor.” -People

“[Haddon] illuminates a core of suffering through the narrowly focused insights of a boy who hasn’t the words to describe emotional pain.” -New York Daily News

"Outstanding. . . . A stunningly good read." -The Independent

A bestselling modern classic-both poignant and funny-about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.