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Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino
★★★★★· Published 2024· 327 pages· read 2025
A girl who's pretty sure she's an alien faxes her observations about Earth back home. Weird, funny, and it completely won me over.
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★ 5The Husbands
Holly Gramazio
Every time a husband goes up to the attic, a new one comes down, with a whole new life attached. A wildly clever premise that's secretly about choice.
★ 5Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A strange, beautiful novel about a man who lives alone in a labyrinthine house filled with statues and tidal halls… and slowly comes to realize he doesn’t know who he is or how he got there. It’s unlike anything else, and somehow both deeply weird and deeply moving.
★ 5The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
A mother has one bad day and gets sent to a government institution to prove she deserves her child. Chilling, and a little too plausible.