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The Memory Police: A Novel
Pantheon

The Memory Police: A Novel

Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder

The Memory Police depicts an island where birds, flowers, photographs, and even memories disappear one by one. Under a power that enforces forgetting, the narrator, a novelist, hides her editor and tries to hold what is vanishing in words.

マンハッタン・ビーチ
早川書房

マンハッタン・ビーチ

ジェニファー イーガン, Jennifer Egan, 中谷 友紀子

Set in Brooklyn from the Great Depression into the Second World War, this historical novel follows Anna Kerrigan as she searches for the truth behind her father's disappearance and pushes into the male world of naval-yard diving. Organized crime on the waterfront, family silence, and the pull of the sea converge in a story about loneliness and the hunger for freedom in a city at war.

The Book of X
Two Dollar Radio

The Book of X

Sarah Rose Etter

The novel follows Cassie, a woman born with her stomach twisted into a knot, through a life rendered by alternating everyday scenes and surreal imagery. Through a meat farm, city work, love, and illness, it asks how women’s bodies are seen and wounded by society.

三体
早川書房

三体

劉 慈欣, 立原 透耶, 大森 望, 光吉 さくら, ワン チャイ

A hard-SF novel that begins with events during China's Cultural Revolution and expands into first contact between humanity and an alien civilization. Scientific thinking and civilizational crisis intersect to create an epic account of interstellar tension.

Posing Nude for the Saints: Stories
Texas Review Pr

Posing Nude for the Saints: Stories

Elizabeth Genovise

“Irises” is a short story about family secrets and loss, following a woman as she deepens her understanding of herself inside a shifting web of relationships. As part of Posing Nude for the Saints, it stands out for its restrained prose.

Time
Nightboat Books

Time

Etel Adnan, Sarah Riggs

Built from poems originally written in French, this collection lets time, memory, war, and love braid together in non-linear ways. Its structure expands from a single moment toward historical scale, placing everyday perception and philosophical thought in the same current.