Book Recommendations
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Book Recs
Mash-Up
Combining elements from various genres, this week’s books illustrate the way that fiction can be a shape-shifting medium
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The Power of Art
This week we have Sarajevo-set fiction about art’s capacity to provide hope amid war; the novelized life of an influential art collector...
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Perfect Match
During this period of heat and humidity, immerse yourself—if not into the cool waters of an ocean, lake, or pool, then into the lives of others
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Time Out
This week you’ll find two books that are timely in their ability to capture the zeitgeist of now. Others use time to tell a story backward and...
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Book RecsFirst Novel Prize
2024 First Novel Prize
The Center for FictionThe Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize was awarded to Joseph Earl Thomas for his debut novel God Bless You, Otis...
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Summer Swelter
These novels crisscross the globe with characters in search of family, food, and answers to the secrets of their pasts. A mother goes missing...
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Spellbound
This week’s selection is meant to keep you on the edge of your beach chair, with books to be gobbled up quickly. An undocumented Ecuadorian...
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Everybody’s Looking for Something
These novels depict the search for answers—how to build a life, how to behave, and how to learn from the past. A Turkish writer gives us a snapshot...
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Missing Chapters
These five novels address disappearances. There is a suburban Long Island kidnapping inspired by true events; a community whose residents are...
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A Passport to Countless Adventures
This week we have a guest editor, bookseller extraordinaire Leah Bronstein, who has put together a superb selection of titles for young readers...
