#Literary Fiction

The God of the Woods

by Liz Moore

Mystery & Thriller Fiction & Literature

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

Mystery & Thriller

Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

Hello Beautiful

by Ann Napolitano

Intermezzo

by Sally Rooney

Normal People

by Sally Rooney

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

Yellowface

by R. F. Kuang

James

by Percival Everett

Percival Everett retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim, the enslaved man who escapes down the Mississippi with Huck. This Jim is a sharp, literate man who hides his intelligence behind the dialect white people expect to hear. The novel won the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The God of the Woods

by Liz Moore

Mystery & Thriller Fiction & Literature

In August 1975, thirteen-year-old Barbara Van Laar disappears from a summer camp in the Adirondacks that her wealthy family owns, the same family whose eldest son vanished years earlier. The search unfolds through the eyes of campers, counselors, family members and investigators across several timelines.

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

A father and his young son walk alone through a burned and blasted post-apocalyptic landscape, pushing a shopping cart of scavenged supplies toward the coast. Sparse and devastating, this Pulitzer Prize winner explores love, survival, and what it means to carry the fire of hope.

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

Three women — Madeline, Celeste, and Jane — become friends at their children's school orientation in a picturesque Australian seaside town. But beneath the surface of school fundraisers and playground politics, dark secrets fester, building toward a catastrophic trivia night.

Mystery & Thriller

Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

Six interconnected stories spanning from the 19th-century Pacific to a post-apocalyptic future, each nested inside the next like Russian dolls. Mitchell weaves themes of predation, compassion, and the eternal recurrence of human nature across centuries.

Hello Beautiful

by Ann Napolitano

William Waters grows up in a house silenced by grief and arrives at college near Chicago with basketball as his only refuge. There he meets Julia Padavano, the eldest of four inseparable sisters, and is drawn into their loud, loving family. Over the decades that follow, a painful break tests how far the sisters' loyalty to one another can stretch.

Intermezzo

by Sally Rooney

After their father's death, two Irish brothers drift through grief in very different ways: Peter, a successful Dublin barrister in his thirties torn between two women, and Ivan, a socially awkward twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player who falls for an older woman.

Normal People

by Sally Rooney

Connell and Marianne circle each other from secondary school in small-town Ireland to university at Trinity College Dublin. Their on-again, off-again relationship is shaped by class, insecurity, and miscommunication in Rooney's devastating portrait of modern intimacy.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

Two Jewish cousins in 1940s New York create a wildly successful comic book superhero, channeling their dreams, fears, and the shadow of World War II into four-color adventures. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

A group of eccentric classics students at an elite Vermont college become so obsessed with Greek ideals of beauty and perfection that they cross a terrible moral boundary. A reverse murder mystery that reveals the killing on page one, then unravels the why.

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

Henry DeTamble involuntarily time travels, appearing at random moments in the life of Clare Abshire, the woman he loves. Their relationship unfolds out of order, creating a deeply moving love story about patience, fate, and the pain of being unstuck in time.

Yellowface

by R. F. Kuang

When literary star Athena Liu dies in a freak accident, her struggling former classmate June Hayward walks off with Athena's unfinished manuscript, a novel about Chinese laborers in World War I. June edits it, publishes it as her own under the name Juniper Song, and becomes a bestseller, until people online start asking questions.