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Sandra Cisneros
A linked novel in which the Latina girl Esperanza searches for a place of her own amid the pressures of poverty, gender, and class. Its short vignettes vividly convey the pain and hope of growing up.
Milton Murayama
A novel set in Hawaii’s immigrant community that follows a Nisei perspective through family bonds, poverty, cultural pride, and conflict.
Julius Lester
To Be A Slave is a 1968 nonfiction children's book by Julius Lester, illustrated by Tom Feelings. It explores what it was like to be a slave. The book includes many personal accounts of former slaves, accompanied by Lester's historical commentary and Feelings' powerful and muted paintings. To Be a Slave has been a touchstone in children's literature for more than 30 years.
Anne Tyler
A married couple from Baltimore reassesses their awkwardness and affection through a small road trip to a funeral.
Alan Hollinghurst
A debut novel set in London exploring gay life, desire, class and memory.
Paul McAuley
Hard science fiction on an interstellar scale, it traces civilization, ecology, and interconnection across a vast setting. Scientific speculation and scale drive a story about humanity’s encounter with the unknown.
Thea Astley
Through the drifting life of a young journalist, Thea Astley's third novel explores vanity, stagnation, and the strains of marriage. Its sharp imagery and dense prose let urban comedy and loneliness coexist.
Paul Monette
A memoir chronicling partner Roger Horwitz's fight against and death from AIDS, detailing the final nineteen months and exploring loneliness, grief, and love.
Alma Luz Villanueva
A novel by Alma Luz Villanueva in which women’s relationships, desire, and family pressure overlap. Against a vivid sense of color and light, it follows the inner changes of its characters as a novel of transformation.
Hugh Lofting
Doctor Dolittle and his companions take on a dangerous voyage and the mystery of a floating island in the series’s second book. It expands the premise of talking to animals while enlarging the scale of the adventure.
C. J. Cherryh
Set in a future where cloning and genetic design are deeply embedded in society, the novel is a dense ensemble drama about identity and political intrigue. It richly depicts scientific ethics, the restoration of personality, and struggles for power.
Emory Elliott
A large-scale literary history and anthology surveying US literature.