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Walter M.MillerJr., Mary Doria Russell
This post-apocalyptic novel uses a monastery after nuclear war to explore the preservation of knowledge and the cyclical rise and fall of civilization across centuries.
Chris Roerden
A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.
Nancy Means Wright
A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.
Sandra Parshall
Young veterinarian Rachel Goddard is drawn back into a childhood memory after a scene at the animal hospital reopens buried feelings. From there she moves toward the family secrets surrounding her mother, sister, and long-dead father, in a psychological suspense novel about control, loss, and the way the past keeps breaking into the present.
Peter Abrahams
Thirteen-year-old Ingrid Levin-Hill is drawn into an Echo Falls mystery after a local murder leaves her with clues she cannot ignore.
Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen
The book gathers testimony from survivors, firefighters, evacuees, and others whose lives were reshaped by the Chernobyl disaster.
Patricia Klindienst
A critical travelogue that visits immigrant and Indigenous gardens to think about food, culture, and belonging.
Gary Panter
An experimental, highly visual graphic work built on a Dantean frame.
James Shapiro
A history book that treats Shakespeare's year of 1599 as both a dramatic breakthrough and a political moment. By tracing the backdrop to the plays, it also makes the works themselves feel clearer.
Guus Kuijer, John Nieuwenhuizen
A children’s novel in which Thomas, living under an abusive father, finds hope through imagination, faith, and everyday miracles.
Paule Constant, Betsy Wing
Set on an African banana plantation, White Spirit follows three innocents: Victor, a young Frenchman running a supply store; Lola, a mulatto prostitute desperately seeking to lighten her skin; and Alexis, a chimpanzee who does not know he is a monkey. A barrel of mysterious powder christened white spirit for its bleaching effect unleashes an obsession with whiteness that exposes the perverse system of desires and hatreds binding colonizers and colonized alike, spiraling toward catastrophe. With caustic language, fierce irony, and enormous tenderness for human frailty, Paule Constant portrays a nightmarish postcolonial Africa while sparking a light of hope amid torment and suffering.
Markus Zusak
Set in Nazi Germany, the novel follows Liesel Meminger as she learns to read, steals books, and tries to preserve language and humanity amid war. Narrated by Death, it balances devastation with warmth and acts of resistance.