Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17.00, 9781524798642Ī gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17.00, 9781476749303Ī magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel of black British history. Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.īernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17.00, 9780802156983 Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.Īmor Towles, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143110439 A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read.Įlizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9781594634741 Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155Ī testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions. Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing. Henry's novel about a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut is a June 2020 Indie Next List Great Read.
National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world.Įmily Henry, Berkley, $16.00, 9781984806734
Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.Ĭeleste Ng, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143135166Ī riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
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