
12 Books for 2026
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · 2005

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop A Novel
Satoshi Yagisawa · 2023

White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2017

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh · 2022

Katabasis
R.F. Kuang · 2025

Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2019
NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t. WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country

The Prison Healer
Lynette Noni · 2022

If Cats Disappeared from the World
Genki Kawamura · 2018

All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami · 2022

East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck · 1952

I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 2022

Loved One: A Novel
Aisha Muharrar · 2025









