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Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
by Elaine Feeney
After moving from London back to the wild west of Ireland to care for her dying father, Claire O’Connor’s life has been on pause. But when her ex, Tom Morton, unexpectedly relocates nearby, old feelings resurface—and so do the ghosts of her past. As memories and family secrets emerge from the shadows of her childhood home, Claire must decide whether she can finally confront her history and move forward, or remain bound by what she’s tried to leave behind.
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The White Hot
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
April, a young mother suffocating in a home filled with tension and unspoken secrets, finds brief escape in the solitude of a locked bathroom—until one day, pushed to her breaking point, she simply walks away. With nothing but a one-way ticket to nowhere, she leaves Philadelphia behind and ventures into the wilderness, where survival, reckoning, and self-discovery collide. Her journey becomes a raw, transformative quest that forces her to confront who she is—and who she might become.
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The Everlasting
by Alix E. Harrow
Centuries after Sir Una Everlasting—Dominion’s greatest hero—sacrificed her life for queen and country, her true story has faded into legend. When Owen Mallory, a disillusioned scholar and failed soldier, becomes obsessed with her myth, his search for truth pulls him across time itself. Bound together in an endless loop of fate and memory, Una and Owen must find a way to break free from the story that has always doomed them—by rewriting history itself.
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The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
by Harper Lee
This collection brings together Harper Lee’s early short fiction and later nonfiction, offering an intimate look at her evolution as a writer and thinker. From Alabama schoolyards to Manhattan streets, these works reveal Lee’s wit, insight, and unflinching eye for human nature. Alongside her reflections on politics, equality, art, and everyday life, readers rediscover the young, ambitious writer behind To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. An introduction by her biographer, Casey Cep, provides fresh context and connects these pieces to Lee’s life and enduring literary legacy.
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Tom's Crossing
by Mark Z. Danielewski
In the fall of 1982, the quiet town of Orvop, Utah, became the center of a story that would outlive any local crime or courtroom drama. It began with two teenagers—Tom Gatestone, already something of a legend, and newcomer Kalin March—who set out to rescue a pair of neglected horses from a nearby paddock. What followed was a chain of events that defied reason: the dead rose, the mountain fell, and an act of courage both awe-inspiring and horrifying left its mark on everyone who witnessed it. Decades later, the people of Orvop still struggle to make sense of what happened on the Katanogos massif—and of the words that would come to define it all: You get what you deserve when you ride with cowards.
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Wreck
by Catherine Newman
Two years after their Cape Cod vacation, Rocky and her family are back home in Western Massachusetts—older, but not necessarily wiser. Rocky, still as anxious and wryly funny as ever, lives with her husband Nick, their daughter Willa (recently returned from college), and her widowed father, Mort. Their son Jamie has started a new job in New York, and life feels “ridiculously normal”—until it doesn’t. When Rocky becomes fixated on a local accident and a looming medical concern, her sense of control begins to unravel. With sharp humor and tender insight, this story delves into the messy beauty of family, the weight of uncertainty, and the hard truth that the people we love most aren’t always who we want them to be.
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Queen Esther
by John Irving
Born in Vienna in 1905, Esther Nacht’s life begins in tragedy—her father dies en route to America, and her mother is murdered in Portland, Maine. Left without family or faith community, she is taken in by Dr. Larch, who struggles to find anyone willing to adopt a Jewish orphan. At fourteen, Esther’s fate changes when she meets the Winslows, a compassionate New England family known for fostering children no one else will take. Though not Jewish, the Winslows reject prejudice and welcome Esther as one of their own. Her lifelong devotion to them endures even as she searches for her roots and returns to Vienna. Decades later, in Jerusalem in 1981, an aging Esther reflects on a life shaped by loss, loyalty, and love that transcends identity and time.
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Your Name Here
by Helen DeWitt
A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen Dewitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.
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The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
by Salman Rushdie
From quarrelling elders in Chennai facing personal loss amid national turmoil, to a disenchanted musician trapped in a gilded marriage, to a restless ghost seeking justice in an English college, these stories span continents and lifetimes. Moving through the landscapes Salman Rushdie has known and left behind, this collection contemplates the twilight of life and the inevitability of farewell—asking how we face the final chapter, and what it means to let go of the places that once defined us.
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
Fourteen-year-old Adunni dreams of getting an education, but when her father sells her as a third wife to an older man, that dream seems lost. After tragedy strikes, she’s sold again—this time as a servant in a wealthy Lagos household hiding dark secrets. Told she is nothing, Adunni refuses to be silenced, finding the courage to speak up for herself and for every girl denied a voice.
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