Seven Stories Press
The Years
Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
A memoir-like book that builds a collective memory of late-20th-century French society from personal recollection and public history.
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Orion
The Liar: It takes one to catch one. (Eddie Flynn)
Steve Cavanagh
Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn is pulled back into both the criminal underworld and the courtroom after a kidnapping case. The truths told by his client, witnesses, and the unseen manipulator keep shifting as rescue mission and legal strategy converge.
Graywolf Pr
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-facts, and Fake News
Kevin Young
This nonfiction work traces the history of hoaxes and fraud in American culture, from sideshows and plagiarism to fabricated memoirs and fake news. Rather than merely mocking falsehood, it examines how fakery binds itself to race, power, and the desire to believe.
Bkmk Pr/Umkc
Currents
Bojan Louis
Currents is a poetry collection that layers Diné language, bodily labor, and doubt toward American myths and faith. The poems move between the concreteness of construction work and symbolic currents, sounding personal history alongside Indigenous memory.
中国青年出版社
In the World (3 Volumes) (Chinese Edition)
Liang Xiaosheng
A family-sweeping novel set across decades of modern China, portraying everyday lives, hardship, and hope through several families. It realistically shows how historical change shapes ordinary people’s lives.
Epigram Books
State of Emergency
Jeremy Tiang
Against the background of the Malayan Emergency, memories of family rupture and political violence echo across generations. The novel tells the modern history of Singapore and Malaysia through multiple perspectives.
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds's Long Way Down is a novel in verse about a boy who takes a one-minute elevator ride on his way to revenge after his brother is killed. Through a chain of brief encounters, it brings the cycle of violence and the weight of feeling into focus.
Penguin Press
And Quiet Flows the Don (Penguin Modern Classics)
Mikhail Sholokhov
Set in the Don River basin, the novel follows Grigory Melekhov as he moves through a time of revolution and civil war. Family, love, war, and loyalty all collide, leaving a long and unsettling impression of people caught in the sweep of history.
Giuntina
Grandangolo
Simone Somekh
From the perspective of a young man growing up inside a strict community, the debut novel dramatizes conflicts between autonomy, family, and desire.
Dover Publications
Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico
Marie Hall Ets, Aurora Labastida
This picture book is beloved for presenting the Mexican Christmas tradition of Las Posadas through Ceci's first experience of it. The excitement of the celebration and her anticipation of choosing a piñata are conveyed through soft, warm illustrations.
Drawn & Quarterly
Present
Leslie Stein
Leslie Stein's Present is a lyrical graphic work that moves through New York City and memory. The present-day life of a bartender overlaps with younger memories, and everyday moments connect in a loose, flowing structure.
Univ of Chicago Pr
The Safe House
Christophe Boltanski, Laura Marris
The book reconstructs the Boltanski family home and the hidden history contained within its rooms and memories.