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Conversations with Friends
by Sally Rooney
Two college students explore the complexity of relationships and their place in the world.
A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple. Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A ... (Goodreads)
The Summer Without Men
by Siri Hustvedt
After her husband asks for a pause in their marriage, Mia spends the summer in her hometown, reflecting on life and relationships.
"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of, The Awful Truth,? There are tragedies and there are ... (Barnes & Noble)
Autumn
by Ali Smith
A novel about the friendship between an elderly man and a young woman, exploring themes of memory, time, and the changing of seasons.
Daniel Gluck, a 101-year-old former songwriter, lies asleep and dreaming in his care home. He is regularly visited by 32-year-old Elisabeth Demand, who had been his next door neighbour as a young ... (Wikipedia)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
A young woman's year-long experiment with prescription drugs to escape her life and numb her emotions.
The unnamed narrator, a slender and beautiful blonde from a wealthy WASP family, is a recent graduate of Columbia University , where she majored in art history . During her senior year in college, ... (Wikipedia)
Adèle
by Leïla Slimani
A woman's obsession with sex and desire leads her down a dangerous path of infidelity and self-destruction.
Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is ... (Goodreads)
Cardcaptor Sakura: Master of the Clow, Vol. 1
by CLAMP
Sakura accidentally releases magical cards and must capture them all to prevent chaos. With the help of friends, she becomes a Cardcaptor.
Cardcaptor Sakura takes place in the fictional Japanese city of Tomoeda which is somewhere near Tokyo . Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally releases a set of magical cards known as Clow Cards ... (Wikipedia)
Galatea
by Madeline Miller
A retelling of the Pygmalion myth, exploring the relationship between a sculptor and his creation brought to life.
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, Galatea is ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Demon in the Wood
by Leigh Bardugo
A prequel to the Grishaverse series, it tells the story of the dark and mysterious woodsman who becomes the demon of the forest.
Limited collector’s edition of the final book features an exclusive Darkling prequel story! Before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy of extraordinary power. Get a look into the past ... (Goodreads)
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
A powerful tale of four friends navigating life's hardships and the devastating effects of trauma.
The novel follows the lives of four friends in New York City from college through to middle-age. It focuses particularly on Jude, a lawyer with a mysterious past, ambiguous ethnicity, and unexplained ... (Wikipedia)
I Was Born for This
by Alice Oseman
Two teens, a fan and a musician, navigate their way through fandom, friendship, and the pressures of fame.
For Angel Rahimi, life is only about one thing: The Ark – a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are currently taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark’s fandom has given her everything – her ... (Goodreads)
Everything Under
by Daisy Johnson
A haunting story of a mother and daughter, their secrets, and the search for a lost person.
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a ... (Goodreads)
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A diplomat's mission to a distant planet, exploring themes of gender and identity.
The protagonist of the novel is Genly Ai, a male Terran native, who is sent to invite the planet Gethen to join the Ekumen, a coalition of humanoid worlds. , Ai travels to the Gethen planetary system ... (Wikipedia)
Uncommon Type
by Tom Hanks
A collection of 17 short stories, each featuring a typewriter. The stories explore the human condition with humor and heart.
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City ... (Goodreads)
Reckless
by Cornelia Funke
Jacob Reckless discovers a magical world behind a mirror and becomes entangled in a dangerous quest to find a cure for his brother's curse.
Reckless opens with twelve-year-old Jacob Reckless entering his missing father's study and discovering a strange mirror. Finding a note containing cryptic instructions, Jacob presses his hand against ... (Wikipedia)
Forever, Interrupted
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Elsie's world is shattered when her husband dies suddenly, and she must navigate grief and unexpected secrets.
Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like ... (Goodreads)
The Accidental
by Ali Smith
A stranger's arrival disrupts the lives of a family, leading to unexpected connections and revelations.
Set in 2003, the novel consists of three parts: "The Beginning," "Middle" and "The End." Each part contains four separate narrations, one focusing on each member of the Smart family: Eve, the mother, ... (Wikipedia)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot solves a theft and murder mystery during a Christmas gathering in a country house.
An English country house at Christmas time should be the perfect place to get away from it all - but nothing is ever simple for Hercule Poirot, as he finds not one but five baffling cases to solve. ... (Goodreads)
Bunny
by Mona Awad
A darkly comedic novel about a graduate student's obsession with a clique of glamorous and mysterious women in her MFA program.
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark ... (Goodreads)
The Innocent
by Ian McEwan
A young British man in post-WWII Berlin gets caught up in a web of espionage and betrayal.
Leonard Marnham is "The Innocent" of the novel, a Post Office engineer who is employed by the Americans to install monitoring equipment in the tunnel they are building specifically to tap the ... (Wikipedia)
Revenge
by Yōko Ogawa
A vengeful tale of a woman determined to exact justice and reclaim her stolen childhood.
Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has ... (Goodreads)
Boy Swallows Universe
by Trent Dalton
A coming-of-age story set in 1980s Australia, where a boy navigates his dysfunctional family and the criminal underworld.
A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe - from one of Australia's most exciting new writers. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a ... (Goodreads)
xxxHolic, Vol. 1
by CLAMP
High school student Watanuki can see spirits and is drawn into the mysterious world of the witch Yuko, who grants wishes for a price.
Watanuki Kimihiro is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. Seemingly by chance, he encounters a mysterious witch named Yuuko, who claims she can help. In desperation, he accepts, but realizes ... (Goodreads)
A Happy Death
by Albert Camus
A young man seeks to escape the monotony of his life and find meaning in death.
Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young ... (Goodreads)
How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
Exploring duality and interconnectedness through the life of a girl and a Renaissance artist.
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently ... (Goodreads)
The Lost Daughter
by Elena Ferrante
A woman's exploration of guilt, secrets, and the power of motherhood.
Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpected sense of liberty, she heads to ... (Goodreads)
The Piano Teacher
by Elfriede Jelinek
A woman's exploration of her sexuality, and its implications on her life.
The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society ... (Goodreads)
Maybe in Another Life
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A woman's journey of self-discovery, exploring the alternate paths her life could have taken.
From the acclaimed author of Forever, Interrupted and After I Do comes a breathtaking new novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in ... (Goodreads)
Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
A lyrical exploration of the human condition, examining the innermost depths of the soul.
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, ... (Goodreads)
Recursion
by Blake Crouch
A scientist creates a technology that allows people to preserve and relive their memories, but it has unintended consequences.
Memory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its ... (Goodreads)
A Death in the Family
by James Agee
A man's struggles with grief and regret after the sudden death of his father.
The novel is based on the events that occurred to Agee in 1915 when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was ... (Wikipedia)
