Literary

Sally Rooney's fourth novel follows two grieving brothers whose romantic entanglements force them to confront what they owe each other and what it means to be truly known by another person.

Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novel tracks six astronauts aboard the International Space Station over a single day, turning 16 orbits of Earth into a meditation on beauty, fragility, and what it means to see our world from above.

Daniel Mason's Pulitzer finalist follows a single house in the woods of New England across centuries of inhabitants, from colonial lovers to a true-crime podcaster, creating a kaleidoscopic portrait of American life.

Barbara Kingsolver's Pulitzer-winning retelling of David Copperfield transplants Dickens to Appalachian Virginia, where a boy born to a single mother in a trailer fights his way through foster care, addiction, and a system designed to forget him.

Paul Murray's Booker-shortlisted novel follows the Barnes family of small-town Ireland as financial ruin, marital secrets, and adolescent fury converge toward a reckoning that has been building for generations.