Love & Virtue
Diana Reid
A sharp Australian campus novel about consent, betrayal, and who gets to tell the story. Reid is scary smart.
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★ 5In Memoriam
Alice Winn
A devastating and gorgeous WWI story about two teenage boys who fall in love in the trenches. It will wreck you. If you finished Shuggie Bain, Demon Copperhead, and/or The Heart’s Invisible Furies, and wanted more, this one’s for you.
Country People
Daniel Mason
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.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
The book opens in a Korean fishing village in the early 1900s. A teenage girl is pregnant and must flee to Japan. Min Jin Lee follows her family across four generations — each paying for what came before. It’s long, but it pulls.