Happy Hour
Marlowe Granados
Two broke young women charm their way through a New York summer. Frothy, sharp, and so much fun.
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★ 5Milk Fed
Melissa Broder
A woman with an eating disorder falls for a zaftig Orthodox Jewish woman at a frozen-yogurt shop. Broder is filthy, funny, and raw.
The Golden State
Lydia Kiesling
There are many cliche ways to describe this book—"raw," "unflinchingly honest," "brave," etc., etc.—but that would be a waste, because The Golden State is anything but cliche. It's written stream-of-consciousness, which is a bold choice, especially since most of Daphne's attention is spent on the mundane aspects of motherhood: feeding her daughter, Honey, entertaining Honey, keeping Honey reasonab
The Director
Daniel Kehlmann
A brilliant, unsettling novel about a real Austrian director who came home from Hollywood to make films under Goebbels. Kehlmann turns the compromises of art under fascism into something you can't look away from. Booker-shortlisted.