Five top books on London

One title on the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five top books on London:
Kraken
by China Miéville

The high priest of the "New Weird" delivers a marvelous comic thriller that tips a British Museum researcher into a shadow reality where London's accreted mythology and occult legacies take on a menacing life. What starts with the theft of a giant squid gets infinitely stranger and as sprawlingly