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Editorially curated picks, updated monthly.



Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Two grieving brothers navigate love and loss in Rooney's most structurally ambitious novel yet.
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James
Percival Everett
Huck Finn retold from Jim's perspective — a Pulitzer Prize winner that reframes an American classic.
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
David Copperfield reborn in Appalachia, navigating foster care and the opioid crisis — a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Six astronauts orbit Earth sixteen times in a single day — a Booker Prize-winning meditation on beauty and fragility.
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Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Three decades after a kidnapping, a wealthy Long Island family is still paying the ransom in ways they can't name.
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The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
Three generations of a South Indian family, bound by water and a mysterious condition — epic, luminous storytelling.
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All Fours
Miranda July
A woman drives away from her life and stops forty miles from home — July's wildest and most essential novel.
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Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
A war college where riders bond with dragons — the fantasy romance that took over every bestseller list.
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Holly
Stephen King
Holly Gibney hunts a pair of killers hiding in plain sight — King at his most contemporary and unsettling.
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Erasure
Percival Everett
A Black novelist publishes a satirical ghetto thriller as a joke — and it becomes a bestseller. The film American Fiction is based on this.
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