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Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally …

Temporary by Hilary Leichter

A young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, …

What Can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR

A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things …

Trick Mirror: Reflection on Self-delusion by Jia Tolentino

Nice work by David Lodge (King Penguin)

Barkskins by Annie Proulx

"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way …

Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom …

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

Decolonizing Academia by Clelia O. Rodríguez

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground …

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex relationship. In this extraordinarily candid …