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Essential reading that expands how you see the world. Literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, and the novels everyone will be talking about.

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Intermezzo

2024
Book3.6/5

Sally Rooney's fourth novel follows two grieving brothers whose romantic entanglements force them to confront what they owe each other and what it means to be truly known by another person.

FictionLiterary

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

2024
Book4.1/5

Two friends find their way back to each other through video game design, spanning decades of creative partnership.

Literary FictionGamingFriendship

Creation Lake

2025
Book3.3/5

An American spy infiltrates a radical environmentalist commune in rural France.

Literary FictionThrillerSpy

All Fours

2025
Book3.3/5

A woman embarks on a solo road trip that becomes a journey of sexual and creative reinvention.

Literary FictionFeminist

The Nickel Boys

2025
Book4.1/5

Two boys at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida discover horrors the adults try to keep hidden.

Literary FictionHistorical

All the Light We Cannot See

2025
Book4.3/5

A blind French girl and a German boy's paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive World War II.

Historical FictionWar

Daisy Jones and The Six

2025
Book4.0/5

The rise and fall of a 1970s rock band, told through oral history-style interviews.

Historical FictionMusic

The Paris Apartment

2025
Book3.6/5

A woman moves to Paris to stay with her half-brother, only to find his apartment empty and neighbours full of secrets.

ThrillerMystery

The Maid

2025
Book3.7/5

A hotel maid with a unique personality discovers a dead body in one of the rooms and finds herself the prime suspect.

MysteryComedy

The Personal Librarian

2025
Book3.9/5

The true story of Belle da Costa Greene, who became J.P. Morgan's personal librarian while hiding her Black identity.

Historical FictionBiography

Our Missing Hearts

2025
Book3.7/5

In a near-future America, a twelve-year-old boy searches for his mother, a Chinese-American poet who has vanished.

Literary FictionDystopian

Anxious People

2025
Book3.8/5

A failed bank robber takes hostages during an apartment viewing, and the situation goes hilariously sideways.

Literary FictionComedyMystery

The Gene

2025
Book4.3/5

An intimate history of the gene, from Mendel's garden to CRISPR and the future of human engineering.

Non-FictionScienceHistory

Lab Girl

2025
Book4.0/5

A scientist's journey through the natural world, from her childhood in a small Minnesota town to her research lab.

MemoirScience

Entangled Life

2025
Book4.2/5

How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures.

Non-FictionScienceNature

Thinking Fast and Slow

2025
Book4.1/5

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman reveals the two systems that drive the way we think and make decisions.

Non-FictionPsychologyEconomics

Range

2025
Book4.0/5

Why generalists triumph in a specialised world — and why breadth of experience matters more than depth.

Non-FictionScienceSelf-Help

Being Mortal

2025
Book4.4/5

A surgeon examines what matters most at the end of life and how medicine can do better for the dying.

Non-FictionMedicinePhilosophy

The Warmth of Other Suns

2025
Book4.5/5

The epic story of the Great Migration — six million Black Americans moving from the rural South to cities across America.

Non-FictionHistory

Killers of the Flower Moon

2025
Book4.2/5

The Osage murders of the 1920s and the birth of the FBI — a story of oil, greed, and serial murder.

Non-FictionTrue CrimeHistory

Between the World and Me

2025
Book4.3/5

A letter from a father to his son about the realities of being Black in America.

Non-FictionMemoirRace

The Sellout

2025
Book3.7/5

A young Black man attempts to reinstate slavery and racial segregation in his LA neighbourhood — and succeeds.

SatireLiterary Fiction

Milkman

2025
Book3.5/5

A young woman in an unnamed city during the Troubles is targeted by a powerful paramilitary figure.

Literary Fiction

Less

2025
Book3.5/5

A novelist travels the world to avoid his ex-boyfriend's wedding, stumbling through midlife crisis.

Literary FictionComedyLGBTQ+

Lincoln in the Bardo

2024
Book3.7/5

The ghost of Abraham Lincoln's son exists in a cemetery purgatory alongside other spirits.

Literary FictionHistoricalExperimental

There There

2024
Book3.7/5

Twelve characters from the Native community in Oakland, California, converge at the Big Oakland Powwow.

Literary Fiction

The Great Believers

2024
Book4.1/5

Two interlocking stories about the AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago and a woman searching for her estranged daughter in 2015 Paris.

Literary FictionHistoricalLGBTQ+

Beautiful World Where Are You

2024
Book3.9/5

Four young people navigate relationships, politics, and the meaning of life through letters and encounters.

Literary FictionRomance

Conversations with Friends

2024
Book3.4/5

Two college students in Dublin become entangled with a married couple.

Literary FictionRomance

The Priory of the Orange Tree

2024
Book3.9/5

A world divided between those who worship dragons and those who fear them faces an ancient evil's return.

FantasyEpicFeminist

House of Salt and Sorrows

2024
Book3.7/5

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters discover they can dance the night away in a magical world — but at a terrible cost.

FantasyGothicMystery

Red White and Royal Blue

2024
Book4.0/5

The First Son of the United States falls for the Prince of England in a secret relationship.

RomanceLGBTQ+Comedy

People We Meet on Vacation

2024
Book3.8/5

Two best friends take annual vacations together until a falling out, then try to repair their relationship.

RomanceContemporary

The Love Hypothesis

2024
Book4.0/5

A PhD student fakes a relationship with a brooding professor to convince her friend she's moved on.

RomanceComedy

Beach Read

2024
Book3.7/5

Two writers with opposite genres swap styles for the summer and fall in love.

RomanceContemporary

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2024
Book4.0/5

A woman makes a deal with the darkness to live forever but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

FantasyRomanceHistorical

Verity

2024
Book4.1/5

A struggling writer agrees to complete the remaining books in a bestselling series, uncovering dark secrets.

ThrillerRomanceDark

It Ends with Us

2024
Book4.1/5

A woman falls for a neurosurgeon but is forced to confront her past when her first love reappears.

RomanceDrama

The Silent Patient

2024
Book4.0/5

A woman shoots her husband and then never speaks again. A therapist becomes obsessed with uncovering her secret.

ThrillerMysteryPsychological

Ninth House

2024
Book3.9/5

A young woman from a troubled background is recruited to monitor Yale's secret societies and their occult activities.

FantasyDark AcademiaMystery

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