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A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
Gallimard

A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs

Marcel Proust

The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, Within a Budding Grove follows the narrator as he moves from adolescent longing toward a more self-aware youth during his stay at Balbec. Seaside landscapes, Swann family society, and encounters with Elstir gradually shape the novel's reflections on memory, desire, and art.

The Only Good Indians: A Novel
Saga Press

The Only Good Indians: A Novel

Stephen Graham Jones

A horror novel in which four Native American men are caught in a supernatural reckoning tied to something they did years ago. It explores cultural identity, guilt, and collective memory.

詩人になりたいわたしX
小学館

詩人になりたいわたしX

エリザベス・アセヴェド, 田中 亜希子

This young adult novel in verse follows Xiomara, a Dominican American girl in Harlem, as poetry helps her face family, faith, desire, and the scrutiny placed on her body. The verse form itself becomes the medium through which a girl who feels unheard claims her voice.

町にきたヘラジカ (児童書)
徳間書店

町にきたヘラジカ (児童書)

フィル・ストング, クルト・ヴィーゼ, 瀬田貞二

This humorous children’s story, based on a true incident, follows a small northern town after a moose wanders in and refuses to leave. The boys’ efforts to cope with the visitor give the book its warmth and charm.

El Lunes Nos Querraan
Destino Ediciones

El Lunes Nos Querraan

Najat El Hachmi

A socially engaged novel about migration, cultural identity, and women's choices and conflicts.

ミルクマン
河出書房新社

ミルクマン

アンナ・バーンズ, 栩木 玲子

In an unnamed community that evokes Northern Ireland during the Troubles, an eighteen-year-old narrator receives unwanted attention from an older man known as Milkman. As rumor hardens into social fact, silence, surveillance, misogyny and political violence seep into the smallest gestures of ordinary life.

ニッケル・ボーイズ
早川書房

ニッケル・ボーイズ

コルソン・ホワイトヘッド, 藤井 光

Set at the Nickel Academy reform school in 1960s Florida, the novel follows Elwood, who is sent there on a false charge, and his friendship with the more hard-bitten Turner as institutional violence and racism crush young lives. Drawing on the history of a real reform school, it asks hard questions about dignity, survival, and moral choice.