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by Kate Greathead
Published Oct 2025
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by Lily King
Published Sep 2025
Read ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love.
by Sally Rooney
Published Sep 2025
Read ReviewsAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love―from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Oct 2022
Read ReviewsJonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Published Jul 2020
Read ReviewsA finely observed, timely exploration of marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition from one of the most exciting writers working today.
by R O. Kwon
Published Jul 2019
Read ReviewsA powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea.
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Published Jan 2019
Read ReviewsThe Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary historical novel in the spirit of Wolf Hall and Atonement - a great English country house novel, spanning three centuries, that explores surprisingly timely themes of immigration and exclusion.
by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsA funny, heartbreaking novel of friendship, art, and trauma, The Animators is about the secrets we keep and the burdens we shed on the road to adulthood.
by Caroline Leavitt
Published Aug 2017
Read ReviewsSet in the early 1970s against the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth.
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Awardan irresistible love story that crisscrosses continents and time zones as it captures an extraordinary marriage, and an unforgettable family, with wit, humor, and deep affection.
by Jill Bialosky
Published Aug 2016
Read Reviews"Like Edward feels upon discovering a transcendent piece of art, this book finds that little opening at the edge of your soul and seeps in."
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by Lauren Holmes
Published Aug 2016
Read ReviewsA fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Aug 2016
Read ReviewsA magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom
by Hanya Yanagihara
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsBrace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light.
by Don Lee
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsA sparkling bildungsroman about friendship and betrayal, art and race.
by Paul Murray
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsA tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopelessness out of life, love, mermaids, M-theory, the poetry of Robert Graves, and all the mysteries of the human heart.
Anthropology of an American Girl
by Hilary Thayer Hamann
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s.
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by Marisha Pessl
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsA darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.
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