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Every book the club has ever read — ninety-five titles, one growing literary world.

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Contemporary

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A reclusive Hollywood icon reveals the secrets of her seven marriages to an unknown journalist.

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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
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Historical

Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

Four generations of a Korean family navigate identity, exile, and ambition in 20th-century Japan.

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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
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Literary

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

Twin sisters take divergent paths across race and identity in mid-century America.

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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Literary Sci-Fi

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

An artificial friend studies the human heart from a sunlit storefront window.

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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
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Historical

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

Two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana set in motion 300 years of family history.

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The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
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Fantasy

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

A magical competition between two young illusionists unfolds inside a circus that arrives without warning.

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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Literary

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

Two friends become collaborators in video games — and in love, friendship, and creative obsession.

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Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
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Historical

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

A 1960s chemist becomes the unlikely star of a daytime cooking show that becomes a feminist movement.

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The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
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Fantasy

The House in the Cerulean Sea

by TJ Klune

A solitary caseworker is sent to assess a classified orphanage on a sunlit island.

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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
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Historical

Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell

A luminous reimagining of the Shakespeare family and the son whose name became a play.

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The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
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Fantasy

The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

Between life and death, a library holds every life you could have lived.

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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Gothic

Mexican Gothic

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A glamorous 1950s socialite uncovers horror in a remote mountain mansion.

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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
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Mystery

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

A young woman raised alone in the marshes becomes a murder suspect in a small Carolina town.

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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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Literary

Beautiful World, Where Are You

by Sally Rooney

Four friends exchange letters and longings across a changing world.

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
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Fantasy

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

A 17th-century woman trades her soul for immortality — and is forgotten by everyone she meets.

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Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
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Memoir

Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner

A musician's incandescent memoir about food, grief, and the language of mothers.

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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
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Literary

Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

An ancient text binds five lives across centuries and a single ribbon of hope.

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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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Sci-Fi

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

A lone astronaut wakes in deep space with no memory and the survival of Earth on his shoulders.

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The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
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Mythology

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

A radiant retelling of the love between Patroclus and Achilles before the gates of Troy.

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Circe
Madeline Miller
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Mythology

Circe

by Madeline Miller

The exiled witch of Aiaia takes her place at the center of her own story.

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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
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Literary

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

A newlywed couple's life is shattered when one is wrongly imprisoned.

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Normal People
Sally Rooney
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Literary

Normal People

by Sally Rooney

Two Irish students orbit one another from school to university with quiet, electric intensity.

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The Power
Naomi Alderman
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Speculative

The Power

by Naomi Alderman

Women across the world discover an electric power within — and the world tilts.

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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
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Literary

A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara

Four friends in New York are bound by ambition, art, and the weight of one painful past.

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Educated
Tara Westover
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Memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

A young woman raised off-grid in Idaho finds her way to Cambridge and back to herself.

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Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
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Contemporary

Such a Fun Age

by Kiley Reid

A racially charged grocery-store incident reshapes a babysitter's life and her employer's marriage.

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The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
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Literary

The Dutch House

by Ann Patchett

Two siblings cast out of childhood spend a lifetime returning to the house that shaped them.

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Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
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Contemporary

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

A failed bank robbery turns a Stockholm apartment viewing into a portrait of strangers.

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The Henna Artist
Alka Joshi
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Historical

The Henna Artist

by Alka Joshi

An ambitious henna artist in 1950s Jaipur builds a life from secrets and skill.

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Beach Read
Emily Henry
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Romance

Beach Read

by Emily Henry

Two rival writers spend a summer in adjacent beach houses swapping genres — and falling.

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People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry
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Romance

People We Meet on Vacation

by Emily Henry

Best friends with a tradition of summer trips finally take the one that might change everything.

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Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Contemporary

Daisy Jones & The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The oral history of a fictional 70s band — and the night they walked off stage forever.

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Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Contemporary

Malibu Rising

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Four famous siblings throw a single legendary party that burns their family's secrets to the ground.

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Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Contemporary

Carrie Soto Is Back

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement to defend her record.

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The Paris Library
Janet Skeslien Charles
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Historical

The Paris Library

by Janet Skeslien Charles

Inside the American Library in Paris during WWII, a librarian discovers what books can do.

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The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
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Historical

The Four Winds

by Kristin Hannah

A Texas mother takes her children west during the Dust Bowl in search of survival and dignity.

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The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
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Literary

The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles

Four young men set off across 1950s America on a road trip that becomes an odyssey.

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A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
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Historical

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

A count sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol Hotel discovers a life of unexpected richness.

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The Mountains Sing
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
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Historical

The Mountains Sing

by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

A sweeping Vietnamese epic told across the 20th century by grandmother and granddaughter.

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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
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Historical

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

A young woman flees a Georgia plantation along a railroad that runs literally beneath the earth.

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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
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Literary

Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata

A woman who has spent 18 years working at the same Tokyo store quietly redefines a life.

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Literary

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

A Tokyo café offers patrons the chance to revisit a single moment — before the coffee cools.

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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
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Magical Realism

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

Three generations of the Trueba family love, fight, and dream in a turbulent Latin American country.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
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Magical Realism

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

The Buendía family conjures a town, a curse, and a century from the dust of Macondo.

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Beloved
Toni Morrison
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Literary

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

A formerly enslaved woman is haunted by the daughter she could not keep.

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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
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Literary

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

A young man's journey south unfolds a family history that teaches him to fly.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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Literary

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Janie Crawford comes home to tell the story of three marriages and her own long becoming.

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The Color Purple
Alice Walker
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Literary

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

Through letters, Celie finds her voice, her sister, and her own redemption.

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Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Literary

Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Nigerian teenager begins to question the silences of her father's house.

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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Historical

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Love and loyalty are tested by the Biafran war in 1960s Nigeria.

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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Literary

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A young Nigerian woman navigates race, love, and reinvention across three continents.

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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
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Literary

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

A proud Igbo warrior confronts the arrival of British colonialism in his village.

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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
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Literary

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

In Kerala, fraternal twins watch the small laws of love shatter their family.

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A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
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Historical

A Suitable Boy

by Vikram Seth

Post-Partition India, four families, and a mother's search for her daughter's husband.

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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
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Literary

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

A boy's betrayal in Kabul echoes across decades and continents.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
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Literary

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Two Afghan women's lives intertwine across thirty years of war and tenderness.

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The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Literary

The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

A first-generation American carries his father's strange chosen name through every chapter of becoming.

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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Short Stories

Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Nine luminous stories of Indian-American lives and the small distances between people.

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Wild
Cheryl Strayed
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Memoir

Wild

by Cheryl Strayed

A grief-stricken woman walks the Pacific Crest Trail alone and writes her way back.

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Know My Name
Chanel Miller
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Memoir

Know My Name

by Chanel Miller

Once known only as Emily Doe, Chanel Miller reclaims her story with breathtaking grace.

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Just Kids
Patti Smith
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Memoir

Just Kids

by Patti Smith

Patti Smith remembers her young years in New York with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
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Memoir

H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald

A grieving daughter trains a goshawk and rewires her relationship to wildness.

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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
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Memoir

Born a Crime

by Trevor Noah

A boyhood under apartheid told with searing wit and warmth.

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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Essays

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A father's letter to his son about the American body and the American dream.

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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
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History

The Warmth of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson

The epic story of the Great Migration through three unforgettable lives.

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Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
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History

Caste

by Isabel Wilkerson

An incisive examination of America through the lens of caste.

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How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair
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Memoir

How to Say Babylon

by Safiya Sinclair

A poet's coming-of-age in Rastafari Jamaica — and her escape into language.

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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
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Literary

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

Dickens reimagined in Appalachia, with all its rage and tenderness intact.

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The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
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Literary

The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese

Three generations in Kerala bound by water, medicine, and a quiet family curse.

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Trust
Hernan Diaz
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Literary

Trust

by Hernan Diaz

Four nested accounts of a Gilded Age financier and the wife history forgot.

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Babel
R.F. Kuang
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Fantasy

Babel

by R.F. Kuang

An Oxford institute of translation magic becomes the engine of a colonial empire.

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Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
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Literary

Yellowface

by R.F. Kuang

A struggling writer steals her late friend's manuscript and watches the lie unravel online.

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The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
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Fantasy

The Atlas Six

by Olivie Blake

Six gifted magicians compete for initiation into the world's most secret society.

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Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
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Fantasy

Fourth Wing

by Rebecca Yarros

A scribe-trained daughter is forced into a brutal war college of dragon riders.

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Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros
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Fantasy

Iron Flame

by Rebecca Yarros

Violet Sorrengail returns to Basgiath with new enemies and old loyalties tested.

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The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
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Fantasy

The Poppy War

by R.F. Kuang

An orphan's place at a military academy unleashes a god of war within her.

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The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon
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Fantasy

The Priory of the Orange Tree

by Samantha Shannon

Four women across a divided world unite to stop a slumbering ancient evil.

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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
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Fantasy

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

A solitary man tends a labyrinth of statues and tides — and begins to remember.

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
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Mystery

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

by Robin Sloan

A San Francisco clerk uncovers a centuries-old secret hidden in the back rows.

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The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante
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Literary

The Lying Life of Adults

by Elena Ferrante

A Neapolitan teenager finds her family's hidden double in an estranged aunt.

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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
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Literary

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

Two girls grow up brilliant and inseparable in postwar Naples.

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The Lover
Marguerite Duras
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Literary

The Lover

by Marguerite Duras

Colonial Vietnam, a young French girl, and a love affair told in shimmering fragments.

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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Literary

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

An English butler takes a motor trip through the countryside and through his own regret.

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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Literary

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Three friends at an English boarding school slowly understand what they are for.

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Atonement
Ian McEwan
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Literary

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

A young girl's misreading of a single moment shapes three lives forever.

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The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
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Literary

The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

A retired man's quiet life is upended by a bequest from a long-ago girlfriend's mother.

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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
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Literary

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

Abraham Lincoln visits his son's crypt, and the dead speak around them all night.

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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
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Literary

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

A bombing in the Metropolitan Museum sends a boy and a small Dutch painting into the dark.

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The Secret History
Donna Tartt
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Literary

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

Six classics students at a Vermont college discover the meaning of beauty — and of murder.

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Possession
A.S. Byatt
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Literary

Possession

by A.S. Byatt

Two scholars uncover a love affair between two Victorian poets and find their own echoing it.

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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
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Historical

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

Thomas Cromwell rises in the court of Henry VIII with quiet, lethal intelligence.

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The Remains of Memory
Min Jin Lee
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Literary

The Remains of Memory

by Min Jin Lee

An immigrant family in New York reckons with all that is carried across an ocean.

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Severance
Ling Ma
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Speculative

Severance

by Ling Ma

A young office worker keeps showing up to work as a strange fever empties Manhattan.

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
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Literary

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

A son writes a letter to his mother who cannot read it — and breaks language open in the process.

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Real Life
Brandon Taylor
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Literary

Real Life

by Brandon Taylor

A Black graduate student at a Midwestern university navigates one searing summer weekend.

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