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Cuddy by Benjamin Myers (2023)

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The novel is comprised of three sections in three time periods. The first is 635 AD. The narrator is EDIVA, a teenaged girl who works as a cook for a…

French Fiction

Monique S’Evade (Monique Leaves) by Edouard Louis (2024)

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Edouard Louis explains in conclusion that he hadn’t initially intended to write this book; he was actually working on a book about his elder brother. However, certain events, and even…

Norwegian Fiction

Fars Rygg by Niels Fredrik Dahl (2023)

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The narrator, reflecting on his past, gazes out from the porch in search of his deceased father. Despite his father’s passing fourteen years prior, the narrator still yearns for him…

US fiction

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (2024)

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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…

Spanish Fiction

En Agosto Nos Vemos by Gabriel García Márquez (2024)

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This book was mostly written around the turn of the millennium, and García Márquez tried to finish it but his memory problems made it difficult and he ultimately abandoned it,…

US fiction

The Book of Everywhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville (2024)

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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…

UK Fiction

The Circle by Anna O’Hare (2025)

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Sophia really needs to kill her husband. She’s been back and forth, contemplated killing herself, but has decided, no – her husband must die. There is no other way. No…

US fiction

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam (2024)

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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…

US fiction

New People by Danzy Senna (2023)

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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…

US fiction

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (2022)

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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,…

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