In Fire Season, Leyna Krow plays fast and loose with the tropes of the frontier novel, leaning in to the notion of the unsettled West as a place where people could reinvent themselves.
Maggie Shipstead‘s collection of 10 short stories, all previously published, gives readers the inspiring experience of charting the maturation of one of America‘s finest authors.
The stories in Night of the Living Rez build on themselves the way a life builds: messily, unpredictably, with beauty and heartache and never quite in the way you expect.
Learning to Talk is a brief, unusual and ultimately fascinating amalgam of fact and fiction as two-time Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel sorts through the puzzle pieces of her past.
The tales in Jess Walter‘s The Angel of Rome and Other Stories aren‘t easily categorized, but each one provides a refreshingly honest glimpse into what it means to be alive.
Shirlene Obuobi‘s bighearted debut novel is a genuine delight from start to finish. Her exploration of various types of love‘platonic, familial and self‘is particularly gratifying.
The nature of tradition is at the heart of Tomi Obaro‘s rich novel, Dele Weds Destiny, about three college friends who reunite at a wedding in Lagos after three decades apart.
Whether you care about video games or not is beside the point. Gabrielle Zevin‘s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is the novel you‘ve been waiting to read.
Monique Roffey‘s The Mermaid of Black Conch, winner of the 2020 Costa Book of the Year Award, is a gripping dark fairy tale that any fan of contemporary fantasy will happily swim through.
A nonlinear novel focused on the transient nature of life could have been depressing, but Andrew Holleran‘s thoughtful, poetic treatment makes The Kingdom of Sand one of the most beautiful novels of the year.
With Horse, Geraldine Brooks returns to themes she explored so well in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, March.
A singer-songwriter faces questions of fame and fertility in Elisa Albert‘s novel Human Blues, an emotional, life-affirming howl into a wild world.
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