Sarah Langan
Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb—pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger.
Claire Keegan
A tale of one man’s courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family.
Mohsin Hamid
Two young white people deal with a changing world after one of them wakes up one morning with dark skin. Soon, others start to change and unrest grows.
Eliza Jane Brazier
A destitute woman deceives her way into the guesthouse of a Hollywood Hills mansion and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs.
Ilona Bannister
When I Ran Away is an unforgettable first novel about love – for our partners, our children, our mothers, and ourselves – pushed to its outer limits.
Noah Hawley
A group of teenagers break out of a psychiatric facility amid a global suicide pandemic to bring a monster of a man to justice and rescue his prisoner. But this book is also so much more and an essential read.
Presenting my favorite young adult, contemporary, and literary fiction reads of 2021.
Yara Zgheib
Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple living in Boston, expecting their first child, and chasing a bigger life. Suddenly, Hadi’s father dies in Jordan, and Hadi flies back for the funeral. Upon return to the U.S., Hadi discovers that the President has issued a travel ban for anyone from Syria, regardless of refugee or visa status. Will Hadi and Sama find a way back to each other?
Susanna Clarke
The strangest book you will ever love.
Louise Erdrich
2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner
The Night Watchman is based upon Erdrich’s grandfather’s life as a night watchman and a tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota as he fights the Native American dispossession in the 1950s.
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