Books

Last Things Last Things Jenny Offill Eight-year-old Grace is pulled between a mother who believes in monsters and a father who believes in science. Weather Jenny Offill A college librarian in the Trump years tries to hold her family steady as climate dread grows. Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill Jenny Offill's fragmentary novel, compressed on purpose and shortlisted for the Folio Prize. Barn 8 Deb Olin Unferth A novel set among the hens of an industrial egg farm that takes the personhood of chickens seriously. 1 recommender Divide Me by Zero Lara Vapnyar A Russian-born writer in New York faces her mother's death as her marriage and love life come apart. 1 recommender Talkativeness Michael Earl Craig Poems from a Montana farrier that treat the habits of daily life with humor. 1 recommender Winners Take All Anand Giridharadas Giridharadas argues that elite philanthropy and "changing the world" often protect the systems that made them rich. 1 recommender How to Disappear Akiko Busch Akiko Busch looks at invisibility in nature, art and science as a calmer way to live in a watched world. 1 recommender Hummingbird Salamander Jeff VanderMeer A security consultant is drawn into a mystery by a taxidermied hummingbird from an extinct species. Borne Jeff VanderMeer A scavenger in a ruined city finds a small creature tangled in the fur of a giant flying bear. Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer Four women enter the government-sealed Area X, where earlier expeditions ended in disappearance and trauma. I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith Cassandra Mortmain records her family's genteel poverty in a decaying castle in 1930s England. 1 recommender Sourdough Robin Sloan A San Francisco robotics engineer inherits a sourdough starter and finds her way into a whole new world. 1 recommender Exit West Mohsin Hamid Two lovers flee their city's civil war through magical doors that open onto other parts of the world. 1 recommender The Trespasser Tana French A detective on the Murder Squad faces sabotage from her own colleagues while she works a routine-looking case. 1 recommender The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington Leonora Carrington The surrealist painter's short fiction gathered in a single volume for the centennial of her birth. 1 recommender The Idiot Elif Batuman A Harvard freshman in 1995 falls into an email correspondence with an older Hungarian math student. 1 recommender Belladonna Daša Drndić A retired Croatian psychologist sifts through illness, memory, the Second World War and the breakup of Yugoslavia. 1 recommender The Hurting Kind Ada Limón Ada Limón's 2022 collection on kinship between people, animals, plants and ancestors. Bright Dead Things Ada Limón Poems from Limón's 2015 book on the chaos of life and the thrill of living in a world you must leave. The Carrying Ada Limón Ada Limón's poems on aging parents, infertility, a body in pain and a nation in turmoil. Eye Level Jenny Xie Jenny Xie's debut collection travels from Phnom Penh to Corfu to New York in poems about solitude and the self. 1 recommender American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Terrance Hayes Seventy sonnets by Terrance Hayes, written in the opening two hundred days of the Trump presidency. 1 recommender Wade in the Water Tracy K. Smith Poems by a former US Poet Laureate on citizenship, motherhood and art, tied to America's founding history. 1 recommender