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OUR FAVORITE BOOK THIS YEAR! It’s the middle of the night, nearing the end of winter, and a young girl slips through the wall surrounding the fort at Jamestown, running, leaving behind something terrible. Gripping from the first page, we follow her as she flees into the unknown, seeking safety. The Vaster Wilds is a taut, breathtaking adventure as we follow her into the wilderness, gradually learning about what has come before. It is a remarkable story of one young woman’s awakening to a d…

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Junior leads a simple life. He loves his wife. He works on their farm. That is all he needs. But Junior has been chosen for a government space program that would take him away from his life for three years. He is told that this is good news, and that he has no choice in the matter. He shouldn’t worry – his wife and the farm will be taken care of in his absence by something that is not him, but thinks it is. As his departure aproaches, and surveillance begins in o…

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed. The “Tichborne Trial”—wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title—captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman o…

Return to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown with this “engrossing page-turner” (Woman’s World) about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove.

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.

When we first meet Christabel Seagrave, we know three things: it is the end of WWI, she is 3 years old, and she is a force to be reckoned with. Orphaned yet living on her family’s estate, she is mostly left to her own devices as she grows up exploring the seaside around her home, along with the books in the estate’s extensive library. An eccentric cast of characters come and go: Rosalind, her champagne-loving stepmother; Myrtle, the wealthy American “Poetess;” Taras, the Russian-expat artist;…

Frankie and Zeke, two teens in Coalfield, TN, begin and artistic and slightly awkward friendship one summer. The magic of their collaborative creativity is magnified to the point of stirring an unstoppable panic within their community and beyond. It is a delight to watch these two grow up, navigating their strange situation – all told through Kevin Wilson’s witty, simple yet expressive prose. An excellent coming of age story full of mistakes, growth and frustration. I loved it. – Liv

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a medit…

Rachel is 20, finishing up her English degree, working in a bookstore, and contemplating what comes next as she launchers into adulthood just as the Irish economy begins to crash. But when James is hired as a temp at the beginning of the holiday season, the two become fast friends and Rachel’s world takes twists and turns that she never could have imagined. In this novel, Caroline O’Donoghue mines the messiness of young adulthood as the two characters navigate friendship, loyalty, some rea…

CROOK MANIFESTO is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family.  Colson Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time.