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by Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho's slim, parable-like novel follows a shepherd boy chasing a recurring dream of buried treasure across the desert, and turns that simple quest into a lasting argument about listening to what you actually want.
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by Shen Tao
The Poet Empress is Shen Tao's dark, dazzling fantasy debut, set in the crumbling Azalea Dynasty where magic lives inside poetry and women are forbidden to read. To save her starving family, Wei Yin sells herself into a brutal royal house and discovers she can wield the one power the empire worked hardest to keep from her. For readers of She Who Became the Sun and R.F. Kuang.
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by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo hands a fading, fiercely guarded Hollywood legend the chance to confess her real life to an unknown reporter. It's old-glamour fiction with a queer love story at its center and an ambitious woman's reckoning running underneath the gossip.
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by Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an epistolary coming-of-age novel narrated by Charlie, a watchful freshman who writes letters to a stranger he'll never meet. It's quiet, tender, and quietly devastating, a book about standing on the outside of your own adolescence and slowly learning to step in.
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by Michiko Aoyama
Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library sends five stalled Tokyo residents to the same neighborhood librarian, who hands each of them a book list, a small felted charm, and permission to want something different. Japanese healing fiction at its warmest, and it reads in an afternoon.
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by Jeanine Cummins
Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt follows a bookseller and her young son as they flee Acapulco after a cartel massacre, becoming two more people among thousands crossing Mexico by rail toward a border that may not save them.
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by Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich's The Sentence is a ghost story that doubles as a chronicle of one impossible year in Minneapolis. Narrated by Tookie, a formerly incarcerated Ojibwe bookseller, it braids the haunting of an independent bookstore with the grief and reckoning of 2020. The hook is unusual: a dead customer who won't leave the shop, set against a city coming apart.
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by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
A ferocious, funny, gut-punch of a debut collection that turns consumer capitalism and American racism into speculative nightmares you cannot look away from. Furious and tender in equal measure, and announcing a major new voice.
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by Yann Martel
Yann Martel's novel about a shipwrecked Indian teenager sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger is a survival adventure and a sly argument about faith, and the two never once get in each other's way.
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by Olivie Blake
Olivie Blake pairs a time-obsessed grad student with a bipolar artist under court order to get better, and builds a love story out of two minds that both refuse to trust themselves.
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by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale builds a near-future America remade into Gilead, a theocracy that reduces fertile women to state property. Told by Offred in fragments and held breath, it's a dystopia whose horror comes from how plausibly it's assembled. For readers who want speculative fiction with real social bite.