The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Deesha Philyaw
A debut short-story collection about Black women, desire, faith, and community, tracing family and generational conflict with candor and tenderness.
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Deesha Philyaw
A debut short-story collection about Black women, desire, faith, and community, tracing family and generational conflict with candor and tenderness.
Stephen Graham Jones
A novella built around mannequins and anonymity. Through a warped urban landscape and flashes of violence, it turns fear into social unease.
Louise Penny
On their first night in Paris, the Gamache family is pulled into a dangerous crisis when their godfather is attacked. As the case widens into a web of conspiracy, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must uncover the truth before the family is swallowed by the city’s shadows.
Alison Stine
A survival novel set in a frozen, climate-ravaged world, following a young woman searching for a place to live and endure.
Daniel Nayeri
An autobiographical YA novel in which an Iranian refugee boy tells his own story to classmates who do not believe him.
Ali Smith
The fourth novel in the Seasonal Quartet, a poetic book about memory, time, and social division in post-Brexit Britain.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Alice Menzies
A grandfather living abroad returns to Sweden every six months and steps back into the lives of his adult children. His son wants to end an old arrangement with him, while his daughter faces a turning point of her own. The novel portrays the unspoken contract that binds a family and the wounds parents and children pass on to one another, with both wit and pain.
Serge Joncour
Tracing changes in rural France and one family from the 1970s to the great storm of 1999, the novel layers together land-bound life, the transformation of agriculture, and social and political upheaval through the family history of a young man. It captures the texture of a world slowly disappearing.
ゲイル ハニーマン, 西山 志緒
Eleanor, an accounts clerk in Glasgow, tells herself she is fine while living inside rigid routines and profound loneliness. A chance encounter with her colleague Raymond and a small act of kindness lead her toward the past she has sealed away and toward learning connection again.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
A novel about sisters coping with trauma and silence as they learn to find their voices again, tracing abuse and recovery with blunt, compassionate force.
Matthew Salesses
A novel about a Korean American man whose sense of self begins to slip, using disappearance and doubles to ask what it means to exist and be seen.
Pilar Quintana, Lisa Dillman
On Colombia's Pacific coast, in a poor village pressed between the sea and the jungle, middle-aged Damaris takes in an orphaned puppy and begins to love it as the daughter she never had. Loneliness, thwarted motherhood, a cooled marriage, and a harsh natural world converge as affection gradually turns into obsession and violence.