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2034: A Novel of the Next World War
by Elliot Ackerman
What it is: A near-future geopolitical thriller written by two former military officers and award-winning authors.
What happens: A series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm.
Read it for: Compelling political fiction and hard-hitting social issues.
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The Arsonists' City
by Hala Alyan
What it is: A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home.
What happens: The scattered members of a Middle-Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch’s decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family’s past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States.
For fans of: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid or Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
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Who is Maud Dixon?
by Alexandra Andrews
Starring: Florence Darrow, a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer.
What happens: Florence starts working for a mysterious novelist known as Maud Dixon. After a terrible accident and no sign of Maud, Florence decides to become Maud, claiming the life she’s always wanted.
Who will like it: This suspenseful, darkly humorous thriller will appeal to fans of Ruth Ware or Renee Knight.
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| What's Mine and Yours by Naima CosterWhat it is: A multi-generational family drama set in the Piedmont area of North Carolina between 1992 and 2018.
Read it for: A racially diverse cast of well-developed characters whose lives intersect over 30 years; a sweeping tale of two families grappling with race and racism.
For fans of: Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, and Therese Fowler's A Good Neighborhood. |
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Waiting For the Night Song
by Julie Carrick Dalton
What it is: An intricately plotted, suspenseful thriller that explores our relationship with the natural world.
What happens: Cadie returns to her childhood home to confront her estranged best friend and the dark secret they both share; and then must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the land she loves.
For fans of: A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh or Before We Were Strangers by Brenda Novak.
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Infinite Country
by Patricia Engel
Colombia: Talia, who is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia. If she can escape, a plane ticket to the United States awaits her.
Houston, TX: Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogatá.
Read it for: A multiple-perspective view of immigrants' experiences.
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Later
by Stephen King
Starring: Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can.
What happens: Jamie is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
What else to try: Help for the Haunted by John Searles, The First Prophet by Kay Hooper, or The Messenger by Jan Burke.
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Too Good to be True
by Carola Lovering
Starring: Skye Starling seems to have the world at her fingertips - she's smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family. But she's also battled crippling OCD.
What happens: Accepting the proposal of an older, sophisticated man after a whirlwind courtship, Skye comes to realize her fiance is not who he claims to be.
What to read next: All the Wrong Places by Joy Fielding, The Other Woman by Sandie Jones, or Ghosted by Rosie Walsh.
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| How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo MbueThe situation: Since the 1980s, the fictional African village of Kosawa has been poisoned by an American oil company's leaking pipelines. After many requests for help are ignored, a small act of rebellion leads to decades of revolution.
What happens: Nothing much changes in Kosawa, as both the nation's despotic regime and the oil company ignore the villagers' pleas. Then Thula, who grew up in Kosawa in the '80s, returns from the U.S. determined to fight back.
Read it for: The links between environmental degradation and human rights. |
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Everything After
by Jill Santopolo
Starring: Emily, a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students.
What happens: Emily is forced to reckon with her own painful past when a tragic event compels her to reevaluate her goals, passions and sense of identity.
Who will like it: This engaging, intricately plotted novel will appeal to readers who enjoy flawed characters engaging in the emotional upheaval of self-discovery.
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