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Books set primarily in Rhode Island or Connecticut

Conn. & R.I.

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The Emperor of Gladness

A Novel

by Ocean Vuong

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

The River Is Waiting

A Novel

by Wally Lamb

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the ...

Act of Oblivion

A Novel

by Robert Harris

Hardcover: Sep 2022 | Paperback: Sep 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King...

Chasing Me to My Grave

An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

by Winfred Rembert

Hardcover: Sep 2021 | Paperback: Sep 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain ...

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

A Novel

by Alison Espach

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: Apr 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editor's Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I'm Home.

Yale Needs Women

How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

by Anne Gardiner Perkins

Hardcover: Sep 2019 | Paperback: Jul 2021

Critics' Consensus:

"If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer do without."

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

Hardcover: Jun 2019 | Paperback: Jun 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

The Maze at Windermere

by Gregory Blake Smith

Hardcover: Jan 2018 | Paperback: Jan 2019

Critics' Consensus:

A richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island.

Brass

by Xhenet Aliu

Hardcover: Jan 2018 | Paperback: Jan 2019

Critics' Consensus:

Told in equally gripping parallel narratives with biting wit and grace, Brass announces a fearless new voice with a timely, tender, and quintessentially American story.

Did You Ever Have A Family

by Bill Clegg

Hardcover: Sep 2015 | Paperback: May 2016

Critics' Consensus:

The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.

The Wonder Garden

by Lauren Acampora

Hardcover: May 2015 | Paperback: Feb 2016

Critics' Consensus:

Deliciously creepy and masterfully complex The Wonder Garden heralds the arrival of a phenomenal new talent in American fiction.

The Gospel of Winter

by Brendan Kiely

Hardcover: Jan 2014 | Paperback: Feb 2015

Critics' Consensus:

A fearless debut novel about the restorative power of truth and love after the trauma of abuse.

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