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The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner
★★★★· Published 2018· 338 pages· read 2019
A woman serving life, and the world of a California women's prison. Bleak, vivid, and hard to shake.
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The Heavens
Sandra Newman
A woman keeps falling asleep in the present and waking in Elizabethan England — and each time, the world she returns to is a little worse. Odd and haunting.
★ 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.
★ 5Ordinary Human Failings
Megan Nolan
A tabloid reporter circles an Irish family in London after a child dies, and Nolan slowly peels back what really happened. Bleak and beautifully written.