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Published Mar 2026
Read ReviewsTwo young women meet in Paris one sultry summer in a decades-spanning tour de force about the enduring power of young love and the poignant heartbreak of missed chances—perfect for fans of One Day and Normal People.
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.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
Published Jun 2022
Read ReviewsBeautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
by Meg Mason
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsA compulsively readable debut novel - spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender - about a woman on the edge that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
by Bryan Washington
Published Oct 2021
Read ReviewsWhat happens when a love story collides with the limits of love--and everyone has an opinion?
by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Published Apr 2021
Read ReviewsThe moving new novel by the author of Harmless Like You, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and NPR Great Read.
by Kate Weinberg
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsSeductive, unsettling, and beautifully written, The Truants is a debut novel of literary suspense perfect for lovers of Agatha Christie and The Secret History - a thrilling exploration of deceit, first love, and the depths to which obsession can drive us.
by Jenny Offill
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the nationwide bestseller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis.
by Helen Cullen
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsOne Irish family. Three decades. One dazzling story.
by Susan Choi
Published May 2020
Read ReviewsPulitzer finalist Susan Choi's multi-part, narrative-upending novel.
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.
Grendel's Guide to Love and War
by A. E. Kaplan
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsThe Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to take down the bro next door, but ends up falling for his enemy's sister and uncovering difficult truths about his family in the process.
by Haley Tanner
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsIn Vaclav & Lena Haley Tanner has created two unforgettable young protagonists who evoke the joy, the confusion, and the passion of having a profound, everlasting connection with someone else.
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