| Crocodilopolis by John Manuel AriasSeth has been in exile in Washington, D.C. since his brother Osario, Costa Rica's minister of the environment, prosecuted him when he headed an oil refinery. But now Seth plots his homecoming as well as revenge on Osario. Moving across time and place and focused on the two brothers and their politically connected family, this evocative novel explores power, privilege, and machismo. Try this next: Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu. |
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| The Devoted by Catherine ChoThe children of a Dragon Head (a Chinese organized crime boss), Eunha and her brother are raised by their Korean grandmother in a quiet Hong Kong village. Their only authorized friend is a boy named Kai, whom Eunha falls in love with. Later, she marries into a respectable family, but when her young son is kidnapped, she's pulled back into the criminal world, where her brother and Kai are now Dragon Heads. For fans of: sweeping, slow-burn literary stories; character-driven debut novels about crime, family, and fate. |
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| Make Nice by Ryan EffgenThree months after their mother's death, the dysfunctional Pickfords return to the quaint, kitschy Lake Michigan island where they once spent summers. But their problems come with them: sister Viv has recently learned her husband is gay, professor brother Pete has work concerns, irresponsible brother Corey is trying to sell stolen cocaine, Viv's surly teenager Ash has friend issues, and patriarch Harold holds big secrets. Read-alike: Fun for the Whole Family by Jennifer E. Smith. |
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| Chosen Family by Madeleine GrayIn Sydney, Australia, Nell and Eve meet at a posh all-girls high school, leading to a relationship that lasts 18 years, moving from friendship to something more to something else entirely. Partially told via a letter Eve writes after Nell abruptly leaves her and their seven-year-old daughter, this witty story features complex, flawed characters. Try this next: Erin O. White's Like Family. |
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| A Tender Age by Chang-Rae LeeGrowing up in 1970s New York State, Korean American Jeon-Gi and the other kids around his apartment complex are left to their own devices. His working-class immigrant parents dote on him, but an encounter with bullies finds him in trouble when he's ten. Sent to a Christian summer camp, he must adapt once again. As an adult looking back, Jeon-Gi ponders identity, choices, and childhood in this pensive, thought-provoking novel. Try this next: Edward Burns' A Kid from Marlboro Road. |
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The Disappearers
by Marlon James
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE
In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All of them are gay. And they live in a world that refuses to accept them. One night the men are savagely beaten and one of them is killed. As their bodies heal, the survivors begin to face the hatred and contempt that the violence laid bare. Some try to ignore what happened. Others double down on retribution. Some disappear completely.
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Switzy
by Emma Cline
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL
A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone.The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting. A mystery, among many mysteries. The world, once so knowable, has been rendered inscrutable. Hypnotic and startlingly original, Switzy probes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him, and the illusions he's relied on, vanish.
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Exit Party
by Emily St John Mandel
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman--a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State--searches for answers. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.
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Under Story
by Chloe Benjamin
We wake up to tomorrow, never yesterday. At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she's ever known.
When a strange light appears across the ice--and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo--her former husband, Eli, won't be far behind. A breathless page-turner and a love letter to our planet, Under Story grapples with the great questions of our time: human hubris, the precarity of the natural world, and the mysterious webs of consciousness that bind us. A modern epic of science and soul, of bravery and redemption, it offers a vision of the future that demands we reckon with what we owe to one another, and to the earth itself.
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