Lauren Groff says she aims to create a sense of wonder and awe in her novels. In Matrix, the awe-filled moments are too many to count.
As in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the characters in Gordo are often poor in economic terms but lead richly complex lives.
Louise Nealon’s Snowflake is one of the most heartwarming, honest and brilliant coming-of-age novels you will read this year.
The sixth novel from award-winning Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson is the story of a seaside community and its open secrets.
Like Dante leading us through the levels of hell, Colson Whitehead exposes the levels of rottenness in New York City.
David Grossman is a sympathetic if unfailingly honest chronicler of the anguish of three generations of women.
The Guide is a glorious getaway in every sense—a wild wilderness trip as well as a suspenseful journey to solve a chilling mystery.
Joy Williams’ slim, wry Harrow is a wonderfully vexing novel whose symbols open up to the real world.
The Spectacular has all the trappings to become the season’s dishiest read. It’s also a gem of literary fiction.
Ellen Feldman offers an illuminating historical drama with plenty of action and even some romance, evoking the rarely explored setting of postwar Europe.
Lola Akinmade Akerstrom’s debut novel is as much a battle cry as it is a searing examination of the hearts of Black women navigating white-dominated spaces.
Sally Rooney writes with uncommon perceptiveness, and her ability to find deeper meaning in small details remains unparalleled.
For her next trick, Silvia Moreno-Garcia moves into pulp adventure territory for a novel that evokes the best conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s.
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