Book Recommendations | The Center for Fiction

Who Do You Love?

Four novels this week explore love and all its permutations—loving the right person; love between a mother and daughter; love from afar; first...

We begin the month of October with five award-winning authors. A Booker Prize winner gives us the full life of a queer, biracial British man

The writers in this selection are all ambitious witnesses, contemplating the universe and their characters’ places within

A new twist on the detective story from the Caribbean; a Pulitzer Prize winner’s spin on oceanographic marvels; an Irish writer’s take on...

The fall ’24 season is in full swing and extraordinary voices this week from Albania, Argentina, and South Africa await you

This week, we visit a town in rural Maine where nothing much happens; a passionate affair in Norway where too much happens; a future in which...

This week’s books, three of which we will celebrate with events at The Center, investigate the myriad ways literature explores connections...

Combining elements from various genres, this week’s books illustrate the way that fiction can be a shape-shifting medium

This week we have Sarajevo-set fiction about art’s capacity to provide hope amid war; the novelized life of an influential art collector...

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