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Dystopian
The Compound
Aisling Rawle · 2025
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan · 2025
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2009
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Île de Ré · Île de Ré, France
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2007
Drama
My Friends by by Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman, Backman Fredrik · 2025
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
Elaine Feeney · 2025
Water
John Boyne · 2023
Romance
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney · 2024
<b>THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER <i>• </i>Shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2025 • Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year <i>•</i></b> <b>Foyles Book of the Year • Best Book of the Year:</b><i><b> The</b> </i><b><i>New Yorker • The New York Times • The Globe and Mail • TIME • The Winnipeg Free Press • The Guardian • The Independent • </i>NPR • <i>Dazed • VOX • People • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly • </i>An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.</b><br><br>Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.<br><br>Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.<br><br>Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.<br><br>For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Île de Ré · Île de Ré, France
Collection
Exhalation
Ted Chiang · 2019
The Overstory: A Novel
Richard Powers · 2018
Fiction
The Gentleman From Peru
Rio de Janeiro · Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
To Read
Agua Viva
Clarice Lispector · 1989
Not a River
Selva Almada · 2024
In the Distance
Hernan Diaz · 2024
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
Ocean Vuong · 2021
A New York Times bestseller • Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post “This is one of the best novels I’ve ever read...Ocean Vuong is a master. This book a masterpiece.”—Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and more!
Comedy
WHAT A WAY TO GO.
BELLA. MACKIE · 2024
Crime
The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins · 2024
