When I finished Television by Lauren Rothery, I couldn’t shake the feeling that my own life looked less like a grand film and more like a messy, low-stakes TV show … Read more
Some love stories promise you forever but quietly duck the question of what “forever” actually costs. The Longest Ride doesn’t duck it—it drags you through the years, the hospital rooms, … Read more
Counting Miracles is for anyone who has ever felt unmoored—by grief, by loneliness, or by a life that went differently than planned—and quietly wondered if it’s still possible to find … Read more
If you’ve ever lived years with a parent-shaped ache in your chest, Summer Island is the kind of novel that doesn’t just entertain you—it quietly needles you into asking whether … Read more
Most coming-of-age stories start with a kid who has at least a name, a town, and a school; Ingram: A Novel by Louis C.K. starts with a boy who has … Read more
If you’ve ever wondered how quickly a comfortable, privileged life could be ripped apart by one bad decision and one powerful lie, Nash Falls answers that in excruciating detail. It’s … Read more
When I finished Exit Strategy, what stayed with me wasn’t just Jack Reacher’s body count but the unnerving question it raises: what if the next war isn’t started by nations, … Read more
When a parent and an adult child finally sit down to talk after years of silence, what language do they even share anymore. Bryan Washington’s Palaver takes that terrifying, ordinary … Read more
Most of us have no idea how to talk about dying with the people we love. Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer quietly forces that conversation into the living room … Read more
Renting a spare room should solve a cash-flow problem—not ignite a psychological war at home. The Tenant solves that problem by showing how a “simple” housing fix can become the … Read more
Grief scrambles memory and meaning; love promises to reorder both. Remain solves a pain almost everyone knows: how to live through loss without letting go of the one you lost. … Read more
Twice by Mitch Albom is the kind of modern love story that asks a dangerous question—what if you could redo any moment once?—and then follows the human heart to its … Read more
Infertility, trust, and ambition collide—and then someone dies, leaving a working couple trapped in a tightening net of suspicion and lies. This psychological thriller asks a brutal question: what would … Read more
Richard Osman’s The Impossible Fortune (2024) is the fifth installment in his record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series. The book, published by Viking/Penguin, cements Osman’s reputation as one of the most … Read more
Samanta Schweblin’s collection, Good and Evil and Other Stories, confronts the chilling reality that the greatest monsters don’t live in fantasy realms, but within the unsettling ambiguities of everyday human … Read more
Before We Forget Kindness is the latest addition to the beloved Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Japanese author Toshikazu Kawaguchi, first published in English by Hanover Square Press … Read more
Tales from the Cafe is the second instalment in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally acclaimed time-travel series, following the bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Originally published in Japanese as 続・コーヒーが冷めないうちに, it … Read more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, first published in Japanese in 2015 and translated into English by Geoffrey Trousselot in 2019. Originally adapted from Kawaguchi’s … Read more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, first published in 1999 in Japan and translated into English by Philip Gabriel in 2001, is one of the author’s most intimate, melancholic, and mysterious … Read more
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is a contemplative novel by Haruki Murakami, first published in Japan in 2013 and later translated into English by Philip Gabriel in … Read more
When Haruki Murakami published 1Q84 in three volumes between 2009 and 2010 in Japan, it quickly became a literary sensation. The English translation, released in 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf … Read more
The Vegetarian by Han Kang is a South Korean novel that was first published in 2007 and later translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015. The book quickly garnered … Read more