The Rehersals by Annette Christie (2021)
admin Megan and Tom met at Harvard twelve years ago and immediately fell in love. Unlike so many other of their friends who wanted to spend their 20s exploring, they were…
US fiction
The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (2021)
The book starts in the early 1900’s and follows Captain Addison Graves, who escaped a life at the family farm by going to sea as a young man. As luck…
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins (2023)
In 2018, our journalist narrator begins constructing the facts of the case of FOSTER DADE (16), a second-year transfer to the Kennedy School in New Jersey. The narrator arrived as…
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (2024)
In a trance-like state, an elderly woman rises and foretells the fate of passengers aboard a flight from Hobart to Sydney, repeatedly uttering the phrase “fate can’t be fought,” her…
The Book of Everywhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville (2024)
The novel opens with the central character, Unute or ‘B,’ preparing for a mission with a secret government organization investigating unusual phenomena. B is an immortal man of indeterminate age…
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam (2024)
In 2014, thirty-three-year-old Brooke Orr, a former school teacher and the adopted Black daughter of Maggie, a single, middle-aged white woman, is starting her first day at work for the…
New People by Danzy Senna (2023)
Set in the 90s, Maria and Khalil are a successful mixed-race couple whose wedding iscoming up quickly. They agreed to be a part of a documentary called New People whichfocuses…
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (2022)
The novel is a captivating, dark, yet ultimately optimistic satire that delves into the multifaceted experience of motherhood. Amidst a sea of narratives exploring the complexities of being a mother,…
Happiness Fall by Angie Kim (2023)
Mia recounts a pivotal day in her life that would forever define her family. The narrative unfolds with the return of her brother, Eugene, who, due to a non-speaking genetic…
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (2023)
In the 2018, middle-aged author Bret Easton Ellis is driving through Los Angeles with his partner, Todd, when he spots middle-aged Susan Reynolds, a figure from his high school years.…