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The author of this recent BookBrowse First Impressions selection is visiting the Community Forum for a Q&A this week. The plot of this novel - her 13th - is set in dual timelines. In the present, the heroine has won a house on a Greek Island, where she uncovers a mystery surrounding its WWII-era occupants.
Izzy Broom
2026
The protagonist, Skye, has won the house in a lottery, where she's agreed to fix it up to island standards. She is running away from an abusive marriage, so she tells no one where she is.
This classic is a semi-autobiographical novel about the German author's experiences in WWI. Billed by some as the greatest war novel of all time, it details trauma the soldiers endured during and after the war.
Erich Maria Remarque
1928
The book's German title is "Im Westen nichts Neues" which translates to "Nothing New in the West." It, and its sequel, The Road Back (1931) were two of the books banned an burned by the Nazis.
This novel was a recent BookBrowse Book Club selection. It features a 63-year-old Chinese-Indonesian trophy wife. After her husband leaves her for their cook, she decides to go to cooking school to win him back. (Punctuation in the title has been removed for compatibility.)
Jesse Q Sutanto
2026
The woman's name is in the book's title. She thinks she's enrolling in a cooking school in France, but accidentally ends up at one in the English countryside.
Recently featured in the BookBrowse Review, this novel is by a #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose YA trilogy was widely popular and was made into a series of movies. This romantic dystopian fantasy set on a future Earth infected with a virus known as the "Fever." Anyone who gets the Fever dies, but half of those who die come back to life with supernatural abilities. (Note: The punctuation in the title has been removed for compatibility.)
Veronica Roth
2026
The author's popular trilogy is the Divergent series.
This historical fiction author's last book featured members of William Shakespeare's family. Her most recent novel was published earlier this month, and is set in Ireland in 1865 in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. It features an Irish mapmaker sent to survey the area.
Maggie O'Farrell
2026
The earlier novel is Hamnet. The mapmaker in this story, Tomás, is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse as he works to complete the survey before the arrival of British troops.
This is a nonfiction account of the author's time working for a tech giant as their Director of Global Public Policy from 2011 to 2017. The title alludes to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and talks about the company's culture of indifference.
Sarah Wynn-Williams
2025
The company for which the author worked is now known as Meta, and she draws parallels between Gatsby and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
This book just won the International Booker Award. Set in May 1938, the story follows Aoyama Chizuko, a celebrated Japanese novelist who travels to a Japanese colony for a year-long lecture tour. She is accompanied by an interpreter and cook whom she affectionately calls Chi-chan.
Shuang-zi Yang
2024
Their complex relationship explores the power imbalance between colonizer and colonized. The name of the country that is colonized by Japan is the first word of the book's title.
This is the most recent novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The story is told primarily from the standpoint of Todd Keane, a tech billionaire with Lewy body dementia. It also shifts viewpoints to that of a 90-year-old oceanography, a Black man became friends with Todd and helped him develop his social media platform, and an artist who crafts sculpture out of trash found on beaches.
Richard Powers
2024
This author's first book focused on trees and featured ecoterrorists. This one explores the wonder and biodiversity of the oceans.
This classic 19th-century French novel is set during the reign of King Louise XIII. In it, a young man travels to Paris to become a member of the elite royal guard, where he first offends then befriends a trio of men likewise employed. Plenty of swordplay ensues as they attempt to protect Queen Ann of Austria from the political intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu.
Alexandre Dumas
1844
Young man is named d'Artagnan, and his friends are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. They live by the motto, "All for one, and one for all!"
This work of historical fiction was both a First Impressions book and a BookBrowse Book Club selection. Set in the early 20th century, it's based on a true story and recounts six years in the life of influential Black author and editor Jessie Redmon Fauset.
Victoria Christopher Murray
2025
Much of the book talks about Fauset's relationship with W.E.B. DuBois. She helped launch the careers of several writers, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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