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Country People
Daniel Mason
★★★★· Published 2026· 320 pages· read 2026
From the North Woods guy, but set right now: a family of city academics decamps to rural Vermont for a year. A tender, funny portrait of a dad who's sure he's let everyone down.
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A woman's marriage and mind unravel, and it's somehow hilarious and devastating at once. I adored this.
★ 5Whistler
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett is one of my favorite authors for a reason; I couldn't put this down.
Like This, But Funnier
Hallie Cantor
A stalled TV writer snoops in her therapist husband's patient notes and just... can't help herself. A laugh-out-loud debut about ambition, envy, and faking it in Hollywood.