01of 10Our Missing Hearts, Celeste NgPenguin PressIn a disquietingly familiar dystopian world, a son struggles to find his missing mother, a poet. Celeste Ng tackles bigotry and hatred and in the process demonstrates the necessity of art and love.
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Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
Penguin Press
In a disquietingly familiar dystopian world, a son struggles to find his missing mother, a poet. Celeste Ng tackles bigotry and hatred and in the process demonstrates the necessity of art and love.
02of 10Trust, Hernan DiazPenguinA wealthy yet troubled couple become the subjects of a bestselling novel, and then the husband has the book destroyed. Multiple perspectives make Hernan Diaz’sTrustdazzlingly inventive and deeply moving.
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Trust, Hernan Diaz
Penguin
A wealthy yet troubled couple become the subjects of a bestselling novel, and then the husband has the book destroyed. Multiple perspectives make Hernan Diaz’sTrustdazzlingly inventive and deeply moving.
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Knopf Doubleday
After an accident causes amnesia, Ingrid Rojas Contreras travels with her mother to Colombia seeking family memories. What they find in this poetic memoir is a complicated inheritance of history and magic.
04of 10Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, Laura WarrellPantheonSet in the jazz world, this debut introduces a man named Circus and the often-disappointed women who surround him. Like all the best music, Laura Warrell’s novel explores what happens when love hurts.
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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, Laura Warrell
Pantheon
Set in the jazz world, this debut introduces a man named Circus and the often-disappointed women who surround him. Like all the best music, Laura Warrell’s novel explores what happens when love hurts.
05of 10The Hero of This Book, Elizabeth McCrackenEccoA writer ponders her mother’s death, grief and the limitations of literature. As with Elizabeth McCracken’s previous novels, the result is funny, brilliant and oh-so-true.
05of 10
The Hero of This Book, Elizabeth McCracken
Ecco
A writer ponders her mother’s death, grief and the limitations of literature. As with Elizabeth McCracken’s previous novels, the result is funny, brilliant and oh-so-true.
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Lost & Found, Kathryn Schulz
Random House
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The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty
Knopf
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If I Survive You, Jonathan Escoffery
MCD
09of 10An Immense World, Ed YongRandom HouseWhat can animals see, smell and sense that we can’t? In this vividly enlightening book, science journalist Ed Yong takes readers through a tour of the awe-inspiring realm just beyond our human perception.
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An Immense World, Ed Yong
What can animals see, smell and sense that we can’t? In this vividly enlightening book, science journalist Ed Yong takes readers through a tour of the awe-inspiring realm just beyond our human perception.
10of 10Vladímír, Julia May JonasSimon and SchusterA jaded middle-aged professor becomes smitten with a younger colleague. Sounds like an old story, but in Julia May Jonas’s sharp, sexy, unpredictable novel, it’s the starting point of a wild ride.
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Vladímír, Julia May Jonas
Simon and Schuster
A jaded middle-aged professor becomes smitten with a younger colleague. Sounds like an old story, but in Julia May Jonas’s sharp, sexy, unpredictable novel, it’s the starting point of a wild ride.
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