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A Promised Land
Crown

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWAR

Time's Agent
Tor.com

Time's Agent

Brenda Peynado

A speculative novella about pocket worlds with altered time, it follows a displaced scientist through grief, estrangement, and the commodification of discovery. The story pairs intimate emotional stakes with a sharp critique of corporate control and the extraction of value from science.

The Road Does Not End
Noirledge Publishing

The Road Does Not End

Olubunmi Familoni

The novel follows Rilwan, a boy who loses his parents and is pushed into street labor by a cruel relative as he searches for a way to survive and belong. Even in the harshness of the street, music and unexpected companionship offer a narrow line of hope.

城砦〈上〉
日経BP

城砦〈上〉

アーチボルド・ジョセフ・クローニン, 夏川 草介

The novel follows a young doctor torn between medical ethics and commercial pressures, turning the weaknesses of the profession and the system into a sharp social critique. Its lasting power comes from the way it uses one man's conscience to expose a larger sickness.

夜、すべての血は黒い
早川書房

夜、すべての血は黒い

ダヴィド・ディオップ, 加藤 かおり

A compact, intense novel following Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese soldier in the First World War, as grief and battlefield violence drive him toward psychological collapse. The English translation won the 2021 International Booker Prize.

Fierce Elegy
Penguin

Fierce Elegy

Peter Gizzi

A poetry collection that crystallizes the emotions of loss and bereavement into short pieces charged with light and music. Even as it faces severe themes, it avoids heaviness alone and keeps hold of humor and intimacy.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel

Gabrielle Zevin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

Brownstone: A Heartwarming Coming-of-Age Tale of Self-Discovery and Found Family―a Printz Award Winner
Versify

Brownstone: A Heartwarming Coming-of-Age Tale of Self-Discovery and Found Family―a Printz Award Winner

Samuel Teer, Mar Julia

Through a summer spent living with the father she has never really known, this graphic novel follows family estrangement and reconciliation, community ties, and a shifting sense of identity. Language barriers and cultural distance are gradually transformed into a process of learning who the other person is.