A masterful storyteller, Emma Donoghue brings her dazzling talent and imagination to this historical novel based on a true story of risk, love and two young women discovering themselves by way of each other.
The Romantic spans most of the 19th century, and William Boyd is both interested in and very knowledgeable about the period. Fascinating details hum beneath the exuberant plot.
While The Vaster Wilds is often a dark story with only slivers of hope, Lauren Groff’s inimitable style and language makes it a memorable, immersive novel.
Melanie Dobson’s characters find redemption, discover their own strength and experience the power of family relationships to pull us down—or lift us up.
The Caretaker is an unforgettable novel of class, power, war, family, yearning and betrayal. Don’t miss it.
Beyond the Door of No Return is an engrossing work from a powerful and humane writer, David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
If Benjamin Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World felt like the searing flash of a hydrogen bomb, The MANIAC is more of a measured descent, permeated by a pervasive, unnameable dread.
Night Watch is escapist in the best sense of the word, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the experience of a distant era and identify deeply with the struggles of the people who lived through it.
North Woods is a love poem to the human and natural history of Western Massachusetts, full of tales that come spectacularly to life through Daniel Mason’s daring storytelling.
In this absorbing novel, Aanchal Malhotra spins a bittersweet family saga of love, loss and connection.
Natasha Lester’s central character is so strong that the rest of the narrative shapes itself to her like a well-tailored gown, making The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre a wonderfully human and utterly gripping work of historical fiction.
Kai Thomas’ debut novel is written with great power and a beautifully heightened eloquence that calls to mind the exhortations of the old abolitionists.
In his second novel, De’Shawn Charles Winslow invites readers on an satisfying ride that, through his keen observations of human nature, leads to deeper considerations of the glacial progress of racial equality.
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