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Charmaine Wilkerson on Black Cake with Taylor Jenkins Reid
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EST February 2, 2022
In Charmaine Wilkerson’s exquisitely evocative debut novel, Black Cake, two estranged siblings must set aside their... -
Jessamine Chan on The School for Good Mothers with Julia Phillips
Thursday, 7:00 pm EST February 3, 2022
In one of the most anticipated debuts of 2022, a single lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of... -
Jabari Asim on Yonder with John Keene
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EST February 8, 2022
PEN finalist and critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim returns with a “wholly engrossing and expertly executed” historical...
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National Teen Storyteller Contest
San and Bert
Jessica Wang
12th Grade, New YorkFirst Place — San lived in a strawberry. It was a large strawberry, plump with a spongy outer skin and as grand as a boulder -
National Teen Storyteller Contest
All the Buttons
Eleanor Bolas
9th Grade, New YorkSecond Place — The doorbell trills, ding-ding-ding, and then the door is open and Dee is pulling me inside her apartment. -
National Teen Storyteller Contest
Public Park Therapy
Rachel Samantha Rose
Freshman, University of VermontThird Place — After a full minute of laughing and wheezing James blurts, “She didn’t even get the slur right
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New Beginnings
Welcome to 2022. Was your New Year’s resolution to read more this year? Perhaps you received a Center for Fiction Gift Card... -
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Holiday Book Guide: 21 Fiction Highlights from '21
Thank you, our dear readers, for helping support us through the challenging times of this past year. We appreciate you and send... -
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Holiday Book Guide: Gift Books
This week’s selection is geared toward holiday gift-giving for the person who likes to look as well as read -
200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature
When The Center for Fiction opened its doors in 1821 as the Mercantile Library of New York, Percy Bysshe Shelley mourned his... -
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Holiday Book Guide: Cookbooks
The pandemic made cooks of us all, and there’s no time better than the holidays, when you have some time to spare, to test out new recipes -
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Holiday Book Guide: Young People's Literature
This week we highlight favorites from a year particularly rich in books for young people! These are our recommendations for holiday... -
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Live and Learn
This week marks the publication of a landmark book of Black history, one that is sure to change the conversation about slavery... -
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Daylight Saving Reading
There is a melancholy that often descends when we turn back the clocks in November each year. It always affects my choice of... -
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Loyalists and Rebels
Compassionate short stories; tested loyalties; fiction and nonfiction explorations of two great writers; and the pairing of two... -
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Halloween Treats
A modern ghost story by a Pulitzer Prize-winner leads this week’s selections, followed by comic fiction about a troupe of characters... -
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The Vicissitudes of Love
Love and literature go well together—it might be romantic love, the love of culinary arts, the love of family, or the love of animals -
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True Friends
“True friends stab you in the front,” as Oscar Wilde once said. Here are books about unbreakable bonds, about reconnecting... -
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Generations
A debut storyteller leads the list this week with a collection set in the volatile American South that’s not to be missed -
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Stuck on You
The books here are stories about attachments—to family, to ourselves, and to the world. They include a meticulous examination... -
The First Novel Prize
Announcing the 2021 First Novel Prize Shortlist
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. These seven titles were selected... -
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Welcome In
We are thrilled to celebrate the Fall 2021 literary season with Anthony Doerr’s new novel below, set partly in Constantinople -
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In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World
Two of this week’s selections confront the drastic changes in the world of climate change, with quite different takes on folding... -
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Personal Histories
There are six extraordinary novels this week from seasoned writers, two who are switching genres in their fiction -
A Bright New Season
Be prepared—September 2021 has some of the most extraordinary writers publishing new books of fiction, poetry, and essays -
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Summer's End
This week’s recommendations encompass several genres: historical fiction, thriller, short stories, horror, and a memoir...
