Fiction Hardcover
1. Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Based on real-life events, illiterate women in a Mennonite community in an unnamed Spanish speaking country are repeatedly physically assaulted. Eight of the women meet clandestinely to decide their plan of action against their assailants and in doing so, find their own passionate and eloquent voices.
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Told in flashbacks and present day, the story of an abandoned six year old girl who raises herself in the wild marshes of North Carolina, and in later years, the events surrounding a murder mystery there are revealed.
3. Normal People by Sally Rooney
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a story of a young man and woman from different social backgrounds and their ‘on again, off again’ love and friendship while struggling against strong social pressure.
4. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
In this work of psychological fiction set in an alternative version of London in the 1980s, a man, a woman and a synthetic human become involved in a love triangle.
5. The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
Family saga of four generations of a privileged family, living on an island off the coast of Maine.
Fiction Paperback
1. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
In 1830s Barbados, an eleven year old field slave is befriended by the plantation owner’s offbeat brother and with him, embarks on an escape to the Arctic.
2. Warlight by Michael Ondaajte
From the Booker Prize winning author of The English Patient, in 1945 London, teenage brother and sister are left by their parents in the care of a mysterious guardian.
3. There There by Tommy Orange
Debut novel, a contemporary chronicle of Native Americans in Oakland, CA, as their daily lives lead up to the inaugural Big Oakland Powwow.
4. Transcription by Kate Atkinson
From the bestselling author of Life After Life, in 1940 England, a young woman is recruited into British Intelligence service and decades later, becomes a radio program producer for the BBC.
5. The Overstory by Richard Powers
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; nine central characters explore their relationship to nature, through the lens of environmental activism.
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