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The Cave Dwellers
by Christina McDowell
Only socializing within their inner circle, and living free of consequences, Washington, D.C.’s elite find everything about their legacy called into question when one of their own is held hostage and brutally murdered.
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Just Last Night
by Mhairi McFarlane
When one night changes everything between her and her best friends, Eve wonders if she really knew them at all as her future veers in a surprising new direction when someone from the past comes back into her life.
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Light Perpetual
by Francis Spufford
Ingenious and profound, this novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five souls who perished during a visit to a local store, illuminating the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, the mysteries of memory and expectation, and the preciousness of life.
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Swimming Back to Trout River
by Linda Rui Feng
Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, this lyrical novel follows a father’s determination to reunite his family before his daughter Junie’s 12th birthday, even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.
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Heaven by Mieko KawakamiHailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless bullying for having a lazy eye. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters. Written by a dazzling young Japanese literary talent.
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Monkey Boy
by Francisco Goldman
Francesco Goldberg, grappling with his heritage, career and growing up Jewish and Guatemalan in America, returns to his childhood home outside Boston where he explores the pressures of living between worlds all his life.
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Second Place
by Rachel Cusk
Examining the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, this fable of human destiny and decline follows a woman as she invites a famed artist to her home in hopes that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and surroundings.
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Echo tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
by Henry Dumas
"With an astonishing ear for language, Dumas creates a mythology of the psychological, spiritual, and political development of African American culture by interweaving elements of Christian metaphor, African tradition, southern folklore, American music and America's history of slavery and endemic racism. Although championed by many great writers of his generation, Dumas's books have long been out of print."
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The Rock Eaters: stories
by Brenda Peynado
"A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia. With elements of science fiction and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible, terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity"
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