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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Speculative Fiction
The Midnight Library
By Matt Haig
Nora Seed has reached the lowest point of her life and finds herself in a library that exists outside of time, where every book on the shelves is a version of her life as it could have been if she had made one different choice. A librarian who looks like someone from her childhood helps her step into these other lives one at a time, to see what she gave up and what she might have gained. The book asks what actually makes a life worth living and whether the life you have lived is more salvageable than it feels in your worst moments. It has sold over twelve million copies worldwide and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction.
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Literary Fiction
Beautiful World, Where Are You
By Sally Rooney
Alice is a successful novelist who has just moved to a small town in Ireland after a breakdown, trying to figure out who she is now that her books made her famous before she was ready for it. Her best friend Eileen is in Dublin working an underpaid job at a literary magazine and slipping back into something complicated with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. The two women write each other long emails about politics and meaning and the state of the world while their actual lives quietly fall apart and slowly come back together. It was Rooney's third novel and became a Sunday Times and global number one bestseller.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Klara and the Sun
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara is an Artificial Friend, a solar powered companion robot, who sits in a shop waiting to be chosen by a child. She is eventually picked by Josie, a sickly girl, and brought into her family's home. The book is told entirely in Klara's voice and it is about love and devotion seen through the eyes of someone who is not human but who may understand love better than the humans around her. It was Ishiguro's first novel after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature and it was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Literary Fiction
Cloud Cuckoo Land
By Anthony Doerr
Three different worlds, centuries apart, are held together by a single ancient story about a shepherd who turns into a bird and travels to a utopian city in the clouds. An orphan girl inside the walls of Constantinople in the 1400s, a lonely boy and an old man in present day Idaho, and a girl on a spaceship decades in the future are all touched by the same fragile text in different ways. It is about libraries and the survival of stories and what gets passed down across time even when everything else falls apart. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and spent over twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Literary Fiction
Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver
Demon is born to a teenage mother in a trailer in Appalachian Virginia, already marked by where he comes from before he understands what that even means. The novel follows him through foster homes and child labor and athletic promise and addiction in a part of America the rest of the country mostly forgets exists until an opioid crisis makes the news cycle pause on it for a week. It is loosely built on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, transplanted from Victorian London into modern day Appalachia, and it won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2023.
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Historical Fiction
Lessons in Chemistry
By Bonnie Garmus
Elizabeth Zott is a brilliant research chemist in 1960s California who keeps getting pushed out of the rooms where serious science happens because she is a woman in a world that has decided she does not belong there. After a series of losses that would break most people she ends up hosting an afternoon cooking show and turns it into something nobody asked for and nobody quite expected, a stage for teaching women actual chemistry while she pretends to teach them dinner. It is funny and it is angry and it made eight million people around the world fall in love with Elizabeth Zott and her dog Six Thirty.
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Literary Fiction, Family Saga
The Bee Sting
By Paul Murray
The Barnes family in a small Irish town is falling apart in four different directions at once. Dickie's car dealership is collapsing. Imelda, his wife, is selling her old jewelry on eBay and not telling anyone why. Their daughter Cass is supposed to be heading to university but cannot stop watching her best friend instead of her own future. Their son PJ, twelve years old, is quietly planning to run away from home. The novel asks how far back you would have to go to find the one moment that put this family on its current path and whether knowing that moment would even help. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023 and won the Nero Book of the Year and the An Post Irish Book of the Year in the same year.
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Fiction, Thriller
Yellowface
By R. F. Kuang
June Hayward is a struggling white author who has watched her college friend Athena Liu become one of the most celebrated writers in America. When Athena dies suddenly in front of her June does something she cannot take back. She steals Athena's unpublished manuscript about Chinese laborers in World War One and publishes it as her own under a slightly ambiguous pen name. The book is a satire of the publishing industry and social media and race and who gets to tell whose stories and it is also genuinely one of the most readable and uncomfortable novels of 2023. It won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction that year and became a number one Sunday Times bestseller.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Literary Fiction
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin
Sam and Sadie meet as kids in a hospital and bond over video games. They lose touch. They find each other again at university in Cambridge Massachusetts and start making games together and become very successful very quickly. The book follows their friendship and creative partnership across thirty years from the early nineties to the late two thousands and it is about what it costs to make things with someone and what happens to two people when the work they share is also where they are most alive. It spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and was named one of the 100 best books of the 21st century by the Times in 2024.
Review: My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Review: My Friends
By Fredrik Backman
Somewhere in one of the most famous paintings in the world there are three small figures sitting at the end of a pier. Most people walk past them without noticing. Louisa notices and she cannot stop thinking about who they were. The book moves between the present where louisa is trying to find out the story behind the painting and the past where four teenagers in a small swedish town are doing what teenagers do which is mostly trying to survive being young and finding each other across the awkward distances that separate people who do not yet know how to say what they mean. It won the 2025 goodreads choice award for best fiction and sold over a million copies which for backman feels about right.
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📰 Literary News

Big Little Lies Season 3 Is Moving Forward With a New Book

Big Little Lies Season 3 Is Moving Forward With a New Book

The long wait for Big Little Lies Season 3 finally has something solid behind it. Reese Witherspoon said on June 22 that the HBO drama is “in process,” and the new season is being built around Liane Moriarty’s forthcoming sequel novel Big Little Truths.That changes the conversation. For years, talk of a third season depended on cast enthusiasm and vague development updates.

Jun 29, 2026
Ann Patchett Wins a Major American Literary Honour

Ann Patchett Wins a Major American Literary Honour

Ann Patchett has spent decades writing about families, loyalty, grief and the small choices that quietly rearrange a life. On June 23, the Library of Congress named her the 2026 recipient of its Prize for American Fiction, one of the institution’s highest literary honours.

Jun 25, 2026
Children's Authors Launch We Are Better Than This Anti-AI Campaign

Children's Authors Launch We Are Better Than This Anti-AI Campaign

I keep hearing that creative workers should stop worrying and simply learn to live with AI. That sounds easy when the work being used does not belong to you. It sounds very different when years of drawing, writing and building a recognisable style may have been collected to train a commercial system without a clear request for permission.

Jun 23, 2026
Did AI Write a Commonwealth Prize Story? The Granta Controversy Explained

Did AI Write a Commonwealth Prize Story? The Granta Controversy Explained

I have seen plenty of arguments about AI and writing, but this one feels different. It is no longer a vague debate about whether a chatbot can make a decent poem. A respected literary prize selected five regional winners, readers questioned whether some of the work sounded machine-made, and one of the best-known literary magazines in Britain ended a publishing partnership that had lasted for more than a decade.

Jun 23, 2026
Francesca Wade's Gertrude Stein An Afterlife Wins the 2026 Plutarch Award

Francesca Wade's Gertrude Stein An Afterlife Wins the 2026 Plutarch Award

i want to be honest here. i picked up Gertrude Stein An Afterlife last autumn not entirely sure what to expect. i knew Francesca Wade's first book Square Haunting and i loved it but Gertrude Stein felt like a subject that had already been written about so many times. What more was there left to say? Turns out quite a lot.

May 31, 2026
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Books That Changed Literature Forever

Books That Changed Literature Forever

I love reading old books because they remind me that every style we now think is normal had to begin somewhere. At one point a novel about an ordinary person's private thoughts felt new. A story told in a broken order felt risky. A woman creating one of the most famous monsters in literature felt almost impossible.

Jun 20, 2026
Books or Movies — Which Is Better?

Books or Movies — Which Is Better?

I have heard this question many times. Are books better than movies, or are movies better than books? People often give a quick answer. Readers usually choose books. Movie lovers usually choose films. I understand both sides because I enjoy both in different ways.

Jun 20, 2026
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - Ending Explained: What Was Real

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - Ending Explained: What Was Real

The first time i read Fight Club i got to the reveal and turned back about forty pages immediately. i needed to check. i needed to see if Palahniuk had actually left all the clues in plain sight or if he had cheated and just announced the twist and expected you to accept it. He had not cheated. The clues are everywhere. they are in almost every scene. Once you know what you are looking at the whole book reads like a magic trick being slowly undressed.

Jun 14, 2026
Why Readers Are Choosing Nonfiction Over Fiction in 2026

Why Readers Are Choosing Nonfiction Over Fiction in 2026

i want to tell you about something i noticed last summer. i was at a beach on the west coast of India, the kind of place where everyone used to be reading a thriller or a romance novel. and i looked around at what the people nearby had in their hands. a history of the Ottoman Empire. a memoir about a chef who spent a year in Japan. a book about the science of sleep.

May 31, 2026
Books That Went Viral on Social Media And Are They Worth It

Books That Went Viral on Social Media And Are They Worth It

i have a really bad habit of looking at my phone late at night i watch endless videos and see people screaming about the exact same books over and over again everyone acts like every single popular book is a total masterpiece but my brain always wonders if they are actually good or if everyone is just following a huge fake trend

May 25, 2026
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The Midnight Train by Matt Haig
Contemporary Fantasy

The Midnight Train

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Historical Fiction

Land

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Releasing: June 2, 2026
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Literary Fiction

The Things We Never Say

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Memoir

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The Harlem Trilogy Vol 3 by Colson Whitehead
Literary Crime

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Releasing: July 21, 2026
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami
Contemporary Fiction

Sisters in Yellow

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My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney
Psychological Thriller

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