Fiction
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Two women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own in this explosive debut novel. A National Book Award finalist.
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
The Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enriquez
A woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author.
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
In this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the bestselling author of Babel, book world sensation Juniper Song didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and is not who she says she is.
I Have Some Questions For You
Rebecca Makkai
The award-winning author of The Great Believers returns with a stirring investigation into collective memory that is both a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past and a transfixing mystery.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity, McBride has written a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
From the author of Skippy Dies comes an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
From the acclaimed and bestselling novelist, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed.
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
The National Book Award-winning author returns with a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.
Non-Fiction
The Talk
Darrin Bell
The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist draws on his childhood in Los Angeles to explore racism on a deeply personal level.
The Rediscovery of America
Ned Blackhawk
Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction, this sweeping retelling of U.S. history centers Native Americans as essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Claire Dederer
A blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?
Poverty, By America
Matthew Desmond
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a provocative and compelling argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements.
The Wager
David Grann
From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.
Doppelganger
Naomi Klein
Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections?
The Best Minds
Jonathan Rosen
A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.
How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, this memoir is the stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing to find her own voice as a woman and poet.
Fire Weather
John Vaillant
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind. A National Book Award finalist.
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