43 books
Naina Kumar
Neelu Pillai flies to Scotland for her estranged father’s wedding intending to keep her head down. Instead she hooks up with a local the night before, then delivers a tipsy tirade at the rehearsal dinner that sends the bride running.…
Paul Yoon
The narrator is a dog. Etna is a working military dog in an unnamed country, and after years at war he walks away from the men he fought beside one night and heads for the place he was taken from…
Jessica Knoll
Faye Heron is a Hollywood screenwriter, married to her producing partner, and she owes her whole career to a film professor at the small upstate New York college she went to. He dies, she goes back for the funeral, and…
Ani Katz
Caroline has a newborn, no sleep, and a husband who’s finally landed a job at a Big Tech outfit called Corridor, doing work he won’t talk about for money that fixes everything. He suggests a summer on Haven, the private…
Ryan Effgen
Three generations of the Pickford family land on Mackinac Island for one more week together: A snail scientist studying an invasive species, his sister on the way out of a marriage, her teenage daughter, the wayward brother, and the father…
Amitav Ghosh
Calcutta, 1969. A three-year-old girl in a strict vegetarian household announces she wants fish for lunch. She’s never had it, never seen it in the house. She says she remembers another life, a mud house by a river, a different…
Nathaniel Rich
Forget banks. The real vault is a data center — endless rows of drives holding everybody’s private business, sitting in a windowless building nobody guards like a bank. Tim is a climate reporter worn out from writing the end of…
Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom spent a career on literary novels and memoir, taught writing at Wesleyan, works as a psychotherapist, and then at this point in her life decided to write a detective novel. An old professor at a fancy East Coast…
Ryan Huling
The premise is a line from Henry Beston: Animals aren’t underlings, they’re other nations. Huling takes it literally and spends a year mapping their territories — Canada’s beaver belt, the tunnel complexes of sub-Saharan mole-rats, prairie dog cities inside the…
Miriam Horn
George Schaller invented the way modern field biology is done, which was mostly to go sit with the animals for years. Born in Berlin in 1933 to an American mother and a Nazi diplomat father, shuttled through occupied countries, he…
