Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
Twin brothers born of a nun in Ethiopia — medicine, betrayal, and family. Sprawling and rewarding.
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All the Little Bird-Hearts
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
An autistic woman's carefully ordered life gets upended when a magnetic couple moves in next door and sets their sights on her teenage daughter. Longlisted for the Booker, and the narrator's voice is unforgettable.
★ 5Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
A guerrilla-gardening collective and a sinister billionaire collide in New Zealand. A thriller with brains. I tore through it.
★ 5How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Angie Cruz
Cara Romero is 56, recently unemployed, and reporting to a government job program in 1980s New York. The whole novel is just her talking — to her caseworker, across a desk, week after week. It’s funny and sad and textured. Now that I think about it, it’d be a great follow-up read to The Correspondent.