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Victoria Jamieson
As her friendship changes, the protagonist turns to roller derby and begins carving out her own path. The novel centers on renewed confidence through sport and a redefinition of friendship.
David Harsent
A poetry collection shaped by fire, martyrdom, war, and loss, held together by a tense and lyrical voice.
Zia Haider Rahman
Zia Haider Rahman’s novel follows intersecting lives shaped by intellect, power, migration, and the memory of war.
Paul Beatty
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
Pam Mu�oz Ryan, Dinara Mirtalipova
A mysterious harmonica links the lives of children across different eras and places. The novel layers music, fate, hope, and solidarity into a multi-stranded narrative.
Sara Baume
Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a debut novel that quietly explores alienation and connection through the relationship between a lonely man and a dog. Its seasonal structure makes the emotional changes feel especially delicate.
David Van Reybrouck
An expansive history of Congo, moving from the colonial period to the post-independence decades through interviews, oral testimony, and meticulous research.
Ziad Bou Akl
A French translation of an Arabic study on Ibn Rushd that organizes the core of Arab thought around the relationship between law and philosophy. Through translation and annotation, it extends the ground for comparative intellectual history.
Akhil Sharma
A semi-autobiographical novel about an Indian immigrant family. After a childhood accident, the family begins to fracture, and language, expectations, guilt, and healing intertwine in layered ways.
Sarah Chayes
A nonfiction study of how corruption undermines national security, built from case studies around the world.
S. Y. Agnon, Misha Louvish, Jeffrey Saks
After the First World War, a narrator returns to his hometown and finds himself facing a devastated community and a fading faith, trying to understand the shape of what has been lost. One of Agnon’s major works, it portrays the memory and collapse of Jewish communal life in a style that is both allegorical and richly detailed.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Set against wartime evacuation in World War II, this novel follows an abused girl who finds family, belonging, and her own strength in a new place. The story centers on hardship under war and the slow work of recovery.