Lisa Genova (Still Alice) is known for novels that take on medical issues with both heart and accuracy. Her latest follows a college student who’s learning to manage bipolar disorder while launching a career in stand-up.
Though entertaining in the vein of Bridget Jones’s Diary, I Made It Out of Clay is darker and more complex, following a Jewish woman grieving the loss of her father who creates a golem when she can’t secure a date for her sister’s wedding.
In Bluebird Day, Megan Tady delivers a cozy tale with layers as numerous as midseason snowpack, delving into the psyches of mother and daughter competitive skiers Claudine and Wylie.
For the Lahiris, the family at the heart of Nayantara Roy’s deliciously long The Magnificent Ruins, white-hot hate, resentment and violence mingle with love, loyalty and moments of tenderness.
Nikki May’s warm way with her characters and her sharp eye for the details of life in Lagos make This Motherless Land an engaging and thought-provoking novel about race and reinvention.
Libby Lost and Found takes the idea that books shape our reality and runs with it, in a madcap, implausible and inventive roller coaster ride about an author and her 11-year-old fan.
Audiobook narrator Jesse Vilinsky captures dreamy lyricism and sharp observation of the Nashville music scene and its wannabes in the audiobook of Liz Riggs’ Lo Fi.
From the bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me (now a limited series on Apple TV+) comes a tale of two siblings, Nora and Sam, as they untangle their father’s past in order to make sense of his “accidental” cliff side death.
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.
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.
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.
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