Book Recommendations | The Center for Fiction

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There is a melancholy that often descends when we turn back the clocks in November each year. It always affects my choice of reading material...

Compassionate short stories; tested loyalties; fiction and nonfiction explorations of two great writers; and the pairing of two devoted friends...

A modern ghost story by a Pulitzer Prize-winner leads this week’s selections, followed by comic fiction about a troupe of characters in Edenic...

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

“True friends stab you in the front,” as Oscar Wilde once said. Here are books about unbreakable bonds, about reconnecting with lost soul...

A debut storyteller leads the list this week with a collection set in the volatile American South that’s not to be missed

The books here are stories about attachments—to family, to ourselves, and to the world. They include a meticulous examination of one family...

We are thrilled to celebrate the Fall 2021 literary season with Anthony Doerr’s new novel below, set partly in Constantinople

Two of this week’s selections confront the drastic changes in the world of climate change, with quite different takes on folding the issues...

There are six extraordinary novels this week from seasoned writers, two who are switching genres in their fiction. This week you can experience...