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Recommendations are only useful if they come with a reason, so every pick here says who it suits. Start with the reading lists, or jump into a review and follow its read-it-if line.
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead · 2019 The Nickel Boys Whitehead tells the story of a Jim Crow reform school so calmly that the anger creeps up on you, then moves in and stays.
Small Things Like These Claire Keegan Claire Keegan · 2021 Small Things Like These A coal merchant, a convent and one cold Irish Christmas: Keegan packs more moral nerve into a hundred-odd pages than most writers manage in six hundred.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin Gabrielle Zevin · 2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow A love story with almost no romance, a gaming novel for people who have never held a controller, and the best book about creative partnerships in years.
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 Demon Copperhead Dickens moves to a trailer in southwest Virginia, swaps the workhouse for foster care and OxyContin, and somehow keeps the jokes.
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett Brit Bennett · 2020 The Vanishing Half Two twins, one secret, four decades and a fictional Louisiana town obsessed with skin tone: a family saga that reads like a page-turner and argues like an essay.
Normal People Sally Rooney Sally Rooney · 2018 Normal People Two clever Irish kids who could fix everything with one honest conversation, and a novel that makes you watch them not have it for four years. Reading list If you liked The Nickel Boys: 8 books to read next More Whitehead, a Mississippi road trip with a ghost, and other novels about institutions that fail children and the people who outlast them. Reading list Novels under 200 pages worth your weekend Short books with long tails: eight novels you can finish between Friday night and Sunday lunch, and keep thinking about for weeks. Reading list Book club picks that start arguments Nine novels that split a room down the middle, with the exact question to ask when the conversation stalls.