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Fellowship Point, which was published in 2022, tells the story of two women who have forged a lifelong friendship. Together, they have spent nearly eighty summers together on the coast of Maine. And though they are similar in many ways, they are...

The Family Chao, published in early 2022, is Lan Samantha Chang's book which explores what it means to be a family and the immigrant experience. It follows the eponymous Chang family, who have run a Chinese restaurant together for nearly...

First published in 2022, Maud Casey's City of Incurable Women is a novel comprised of a collection of short stories that collectively tell the story of women who have been institutionalized in Paris, France's Salpêtrière mental hospital. For many...

Francesca Lia Block's novel House of Hearts was initially published in June 2022 by publisher Rare Bird. It tells the story of Izzy Ames and her high school sweetheart, Cyrus Rivera. With their friends, Izzy and Cyrus create an unbreakable bond...

How Strange a Story is a volume published in 2022 by Megan Mayhew Bergman. The book is a collection of short stories that is filled out to full length by a novella. This is the author's third such collection, following the critically acclaimed ...

Clare Beams was nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for her short story collection We Show What We Have Learned. The Illness Lesson is her debut novel which was published on 11th February 2020. The novel examines the dark side of the...

Louis Bayard is known for his works of speculative historical fiction. Courting Mr. Lincoln, his novel which was published in 2019 and about the courtship between Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, is one of the author's most recent (and most...

Elif Batuman's Either/Or was published in 2022. The novel follows a young woman named Selin, who is in her sophomore year at Harvard University sometime in 1996. Selin is struggling at Harvard as her struggles begin to influence her school career,...

Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light was first published in May 2022 by One World. Fajardo-Anstine's novel tells the story of a young woman named Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and launderer who is forced to fend for herself after...

Rabin Alameddine is a Lebanese-American writer born in Jordan in 1959. Alameddine worked as an engineer before starting to write and paint full-time. Alameddine's debut novel is Koolaids (1998), which discusses the AIDS epidemic in the United...

The Republican party is broken, argues Robert Draper in his 2022 book Weapons of Mass Delusion. The leaders of the Republican party, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn, have made hysteria a...

Climate change isn't a new area of concern, writes author and scientist Geoff Dembicki in his 2022 book The Petroleum Papers. Dembicki says that oil companies knew as far back as the late 1950s about the dangers that climate change posed to...

Author Margo Jefferson has written one of the most significant and well-received memoirs of the 21st century in Negroland, which was first published in 2015. Constructing a Nervous System is Jefferson's follow-up memoir to Negroland and was...

Afterlives is British Noble Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah's work of historical fiction first published in 2020, but widely published in 2022. Gurnah's novel is set in the first part of the 20th century (until approximately 1950) and...

Susan Straight's Mecca was published in early 2022 by publishers Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. A work of historical fiction inspired by Straight’s fascination with the American West, Mecca tells the story of a man from California named Johnny Frías....

The Book of Goose is a novel published by Yiyun Li in 2022. The novel tells the story of two teenage girls in France dealing with a Europe completely transformed by the events of World War II. Agnès and Fabienne grow up within the sort of carefree...

All This Could Be Different is the debut novel that brought Sarah Thankam Mathews into the world's limelight of literature. Sarah Thankam Mathews was brought up in India and Oman before migrating to the United States of America at age 17. In 2020,...

Julia May Jonas' Vladimir was published in February 2022 by Simon & Schuster. Jonas' novel tells the story of a female English professor whose husband is currently under investigation for his alleged affairs with former students, some of whom...

If I Survive You, Miami-based author Jonathan Escoffery's short story collection, was published in 2022. The stories, which are interconnected and tell the story of the same family, examine the impact of racism, bad luck, and financial disaster on...

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, author Kim Fu's short story collection published in 2022, tells twelve strange and unique stories about monsters in the 21st century. For example, one story follows a young girl who grows wings on her...

Signal Fires, American author Dani Shapiro’s novel about one fateful night in 1985, was first published in October 2022. On that aforementioned fateful night, three teenagers begin to drink heavily. After they are finished drinking, one of the...

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland is an Irish author and journalist Fintan O'Toole's personal history of Ireland from 1958 to the modern day. O'Toole was born in Ireland in 1958 and witnessed the country change...