A perplexing, rewarding tale of infatuation and erudition.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

This engagingly dark fable reminds us how much we don’t wish to be a princess.

• Fiction,
• Historical Fiction,
• Literary,

Its uncharacteristic antic tenor aside, the author’s prose still breaks hearts with the lightest touch.

• Fiction,
• Historical Fiction,
• Literary,

A woman’s journey from call-center worker in Mumbai to successful American Desi is told in linked stories.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A multilayered tale of cruelty and redemption told through the eyes of a century-old book.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A Black family weathers its matriarch’s identity disorder in this mesmerizing debut.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A 1970s Chicago family weathers change — personal, social, and spiritual — amid larger cultural upheaval.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

This haunting literary triumph links memory and guilt, greed and ambition, desire and desperation.

• Fiction,
• Literary,