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Picks from the Italic Type staff.
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Staff Pick: Emily
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
Fake Accounts
by Lauren Oyler
The Lost Daughters of China
by Karin Evans
Our Wives Under the Sea
by Julia Armfield
Staff Pick: Christina
Easy Beauty
by Chloé Cooper Jones
Begin Again
by Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.)
American Fever
by Dur e Aziz Amna
The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue
by Edna O'Brien
Staff Pick: Michelle
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Awayland
by Ramona Ausubel
Sorrow and Bliss
by Meg Mason
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Staff Pick: Jason
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
by Peter Wohlleben
Sutton
by J. R. Moehringer
Staff Pick: Kara
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman
Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
Book Lovers
by Emily Henry
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
Cozy mysteries, clever whodunits, and delightful detective novels.
Other Birds
by Sarah Addison Allen
The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
by Elle Cosimano
The Verifiers
by Jane Pek
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
by Kate Racculia
Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
Poison for Breakfast
by Lemony Snicket
My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
by Harry Kemelman
The Man with a Load of Mischief
by Martha Grimes
The Maid
by Nita Prose
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Annotated
by Agatha Christie
The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
Still Life
by Louise Penny
Killer Content
by Olivia Blacke
Love in the Time of Serial Killers
by Alicia Thompson
The good, the honest, and the not so warm and fuzzy parts of motherhood.
Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
by Jennifer Tseng
Laura & Emma
by Kate Greathead
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
I'll Show Myself Out
by Jessi Klein
I'm Glad My Mom Died
by Jennette McCurdy
And Now We Have Everything
by Meaghan O'Connell
Wild Game
by Adrienne Brodeur
All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung
The School for Good Mothers
by Jessamine Chan
Elsewhere
by Alexis Schaitkin
The Push
by Ashley Audrain
Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
by Donna Freitas
Fault Lines
by Emily Itami
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
by Cherise Wolas
Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
For small hits of thoughtfulness.
The Carrying
by Ada Limón
Postcolonial Love Poem
by Natalie Diaz
I Hope This Finds You Well
by Kate Baer
Content Warning: Everything
by Akwaeke Emezi
Magical Negro
by Morgan Parker
Constellation Route
by Matthew Olzmann
Dream Work
by Mary Oliver
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
by Ocean Vuong
Oculus
by Sally Wen Mao
Whale Day
by Billy Collins
Because we could all use a few laughs right now.
Vacationland
by John Hodgman
Priestdaddy
by Patricia Lockwood
Wow, No Thank You.
by Samantha Irby
Born A Crime
by Trevor Noah
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
by Fran Lebowitz
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
by Chuck Klosterman
Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
The Mark and the Void
by Paul Murray
Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by Mindy Kaling
The First Wives Club
by Olivia Goldsmith
Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown
An ode to brevity- mix it up with shorter reads.
The Penelopiad
by Margaret Atwood
Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
The All of It
by Jeannette Haien
Open Water
by Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
The Lost Daughter
by Elena Ferrante
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
by Nghi Vo
Ghost Wall
by Sarah Moss