Book Recs | The Center for Fiction

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This week we continue to highlight a significant new book of poems for National Poetry Month; an exceptional memoir; plus, three novels—two...

April is National Poetry Month, and it coincides with the much-awaited publication of Ocean Vuong’s new collection. In fiction there is the...

We’d like to offer a small collection of exceptional fiction—new and old, long and short—from Ukraine. A short list of nonfiction titles...

We head out once more to farther shores in this selection: Iceland (a favorite returns), India (fiction from a journalist), Trinidad and Tobago...

What can we celebrate this mid-March? Settling debts? St. Patrick’s Day? Daylight Savings Time? This group of books includes some eye-opening...

To usher in Women’s History Month, we have a political satire set in a fictional African country quietly controlled by women; a favorite English...

This week we welcome in a stellar debut from a Southern Black writer, a dystopian novel in which Japan no longer exists, artistic awakening from...

The following works explore attachments in many forms—to family, country, lovers and spouses. To their great credit, these six writers, whose...

As we continue into Black History Month, we are treated to Marlon James’s second episode in his Dark Star trilogy, as well as uncollected work...

February is an often-gloomy month. Thankfully we offer you a mélange of love, music and two epics—one historical novel concerning mysticism...