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
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