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Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link’s debut novel, The Book of Love, is a fantasy that tackles sibling rivalry, complicated teen friendships, and transcendent love. Nearly a year after high schoolers Laura, Daniel, and Mo die...

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Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel’s bold debut novel, Headshot, takes readers inside a run-down boxing ring in Reno, Nev., where eight young women compete for the Daughters of America Cup. Each chapter focuses on an individual fight taking...

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Six years ago, Alexander Fuller’s 21-year-old son died in his sleep. With her moving fifth memoir, Fi: A Memoir of My Son—named in honor of her late child, whose nickname was Fi—the author sets out...

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Undue Burden

With Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America, journalist Shefali Luthra paints a portrait of reproductive rights following the fall of Roe v. Wade. After the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to...

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The Great Divide

Cristina Henríquez’s fourth novel, The Great Divide, is a historical epic set in Panama amid the construction of the famous canal and the deadly mosquito-borne disease that nearly derailed its completion. The sweeping tale takes...

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Help Wanted

In Adelle Waldman’s shrewd second novel, Help Wanted, the employees of a struggling superstore in a small, upstate New York town don’t just get mad, they get even. The nine members of the “movement team,”...

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Someone Like Us

Award-winning author Dinaw Mengestu’s fourth novel, Someone Like Us, is a surreal exploration of self-discovery. Seeking solace from his floundering marriage, journalist Mamush returns to his Ethiopian mother’s home in the Virginia suburbs only to...

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Long Island

Long Island, Colm Tóibín’s follow-up to his best-selling 2009 novel Brooklyn, picks up nearly 25 years after Eilis Lacey emigrated from Ireland and secretly married an Italian American plumber. The book begins in 1976, and...

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We Were the Universe

In Kimberly King Parsons’ debut novel, We Were the Universe, indescribable grief knocks a suburban Texas mother out of orbit. Four years after losing her little sister, Kit is struggling to hold it together. While...

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Accordion Eulogies

To better understand his Mexican roots, Spirit Run author Noé Álvarez knew he had to get to the truth about his larger-than-life paternal grandfather, a traveling accordionist who his descendants believe put a curse on...

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Hip-Hop Is History

Hip-Hop Is History is “not an encyclopedia,” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson warns in the opening pages of his fifth book. Instead, the spiritual sequel to his 2021 collection, Music Is History, offers an intimate look at...

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A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez’s short-story collection, A Sunny Place for Shady People, is set in a world that is supernatural, surreal, and sordid. Across the follow-up to Our Share of Night, translated by Megan McDowell, the Argentine...

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American Diva

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous is poet and cultural critic Deborah Paredez's impassioned deep dive into the etymology of the titular term. “I want to know how and why divas, once synonymous with virtuosity, became...

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The Most

Nothing causes a stir quite like a woman who veers from her expected place. Jessica Anthony’s fourth novel, The Most, takes place over a tense, unusually warm November day in 1957, when housewife and mother...

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Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection is, as the title suggests, gutting and tough to endure. Throughout a collection of connected stories, Rejection introduces pathetic, sad, and deeply lonely characters who try and fail to find connection in...

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Didion and Babitz

Literary legends Joan Didion and Eve Babitz are for some the ultimate avatars of cool women writers. They were also, it turns out, deeply intertwined. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, their distinct styles...

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