In Steven Rowley’s The Editor, writer James Smale is thrilled to learn that his novel has been picked up by a big-name publisher and will be edited by none other than Jackie Onassis.
This is a compendium you can spend a lifetime reading and re-reading, feeling freshly enlightened each time.
Elizabeth Strout’s longtime fans will be delighted by the return of beloved characters in Tell Me Everything, but these very human characters are also sure to win over those who haven’t read her before.
Katherine Packert Burke’s debut, Still Life, is an ode to both the sweet and thorny parts of friendship, full of biting musings on queer and trans culture, literature, art and, quite poignantly, Sondheim musicals.
In Tim Murphy’s Speech Team, high school friends Tip, Natalie, Jennifer and Anthony meet as adults in the wake of the suicide of their friend.
Garth Greenwell’s moving yet unsentimental third novel, Small Rain, follows a poet’s terrifying stay in the ICU, and explores the need for empathy in a fragile world.
Misinterpretation is a compassionate debut, following an interpreter in New York City who struggles to maintain boundaries with her translation clients, including a Kosovar torture survivor named Alfred.
Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox is filled with wonder, conveying 12-year-old Tomoko’s enchantment with her extended family during the year she spends with them, from 1972 to 1973.
T.I. Lowe delivers a soul-stirring, unforgettable romance in Lowcountry Lost, pairing a couple’s redemption story with the restoration of a deserted town.
The audiobook of Kevin Kwan’s latest standalone novel, Lies and Weddings, is a thoroughly entertaining global romp packed with colorful descriptions of fashion, contemporary art and food.
On an otherwise ordinary flight, a seemingly unremarkable woman known as “The Death Lady” informs every passenger as to when and how they are going to die. Their attempts to (and not to) change fate propel this philosophical novel.
Nicholas Sparks is a household name, and Counting Miracles is another feather in his hat. An Army Ranger, a doctor and an elderly recluse star in this romantic drama, set in North Carolina’s Uwharrie National Forest.
Bright I Burn is strongly inspired by Ireland’s first condemned witch, whose 13th-century life author Molly Aitkin imbues with a complex and heartbreaking grit.
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