Arendal by Karl Ove Knausgård (2024)
admin The story begins with the narrator, a man named Syvert, driving home from Kongsberg where he has been on business. On the way, his car suddenly breaks down outside of…
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Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon (2025)
This thriller begins with Dr. Maggie McCabe, a once-renowned reconstructive surgeon, staggering under the weight of loss and scandal. Her husband, Marc, a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon and her partner in…
All at Once by Geetanjali Shree (2025)
Geetanjali Shree’s novel All at Once is a meditation on aging, memory, and the slow disintegration of order within a household, told through the figure of Bhule Ram, a retired…
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pychon (2025)
The story opens around the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and spans into the years after World War I. It introduces the Traverse family (Webb, the father, and his sons Kit,…
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2025)
Set during the beginning of the pandemic, we follow four women as they recount significant moments in their lives leading up to this point. The first woman is Chia, who…
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (2024)
This is a collection of short stories: REJECTION. A young man narrates his efforts to be a modern, sensitive man, aware of microaggressions, respectful of women, and supportive of feminist…
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez (2020)
The narrator, likely also the author in autofiction style, is a woman in her sixties visiting an old friend with cancer. They once worked together on a literary journal. The…
The 49th Day of the Salamander (サンショウウオの四十九日) by Asahina Aki (2024)
This Japanese novel is a poignant and reflective tale about conjoined twins who share a single body and their quest to understand their shared existence. Author Asahina, a doctor and…
Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan (2025)
On the morning of a high-profile gala at a museum in New York, DIANE SCHWEBE, the ever-busy Director of the museum, is fielding the normal 5:00 AM work-related issues that…
Empuzjon (The Empusium) by Olga Tokarczuk (2022)
This eerie horror story is set in a secluded health resort in 1913 Silesia. In September, young Polish engineering student mieczyslaw wojnicz arrives at görbersdorf, a village popular among tuberculosis…