Fiction
HOUSE ON VIA GEMITO
Written by Starnone, Domenico
This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction, one that is steeped in Neapolitan lore.
POSTCARD
Written by Berest, Anne
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest's The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.
LOST ON ME
Written by Raimo, Veronica
A bestseller and award-winner in Veronica Raimo's native Italy, Lost on Me is an irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman from one of the most celebrated young writers working today.
PROPHET
Written by Blaché, Sin
From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance--set in a universe just one perilous step from our own.
SMALL WORLDS
Written by Nelson, Caleb Azumah
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Costa First Novel Award winning author Caleb Azumah NelsonOne of the most acclaimed and internationally bestselling "unforgettable" (New York Times) debuts of the 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson's London-set love story Open Water took the US by storm
ENTER GHOST
Written by Hammad, Isabella
"Isabella Hammad is a master of subtle nuance." -- New York Times
COVENANT OF WATER
Written by Verghese, Abraham
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
TABLEAUX: SCENES FROM THE DECADE OF EXCESS
Written by Jay, Dominic
Set in the mid-1980s, the decade of excess, Tableaux weaves together scenes from two very different lives. When those two characters meet, their lives change course dramatically.
WHETHER VIOLENT OR NATURAL
Written by Calder, Natasha
An unnerving, sinister, and brilliant dystopian novel about the choices we make at the end of the world, posing the question: Who can you trust when there's almost no one left? Years after complete antibiotic resistance has brought about global devastation, Kit ekes out an existence on a remote island alongside the taciturn Crevan, who has more recently fled the mainland.
BLUE IS WHERE GOD LIVES
Written by Washington, Sharon Sochil
A powerful work of Afro-magic realism that interrogates the legacy of slavery and roots of poverty, witnesses the beauty and power in survival, and asks whether belief, magic, and intention can forge new realities Blue's daughter, Tsitra, is dying a horrific death. Thousands of miles away, Blue feels time slowing and hears voices, followed by an 18-month stillness.