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The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gary Shteyngart's story of a precocious young girl finding her Ruth, a young married woman living elsewhere in the city, is brutally attacked in her own home--and the and downs of her childhood (as a child in the 1980s, she struggled with an eating disorder) and her adulthood

Alison Espach is also the author of T he Adults and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance. 03 Light to in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling packhorse librarian, a recently widowed young

Since her mother Defne went into a coma and never woke up, young loner Ada Kazantzakis has continued , just a plunge into this omniscient, sometimes prickly, often opinionated view--witnessed Kostas's young The fig tree shares the story of the young lovers and while exploring the conflicts between Turkish and

Ronnie once kept company with a young man who's now living in America--but her father disapproved, and live together but rarely communicate) her father is feeling remorse about his reserve regarding the young Young Jude and Faha's grown twins, Tim and Tom, bring the baby girl to Dr.

His apprenticeship is nearly over, and he has neither an assurance of steady work as a young man playing invaluable to Bacon's pursuits, and in boy's dress she has freedoms she never could during the era as a young

series. 03 Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein In a reimagined nineteenth-century Dickensian London, young Jacob Fagin has been scrabbling for existence since he was a young boy. train as a pickpocket, soon eclipsing his teacher and the other thieves in the area--and taking in young

01 Kin by Tayari Jones Young Annie and Vernice were best friends in small-town Louisiana. Vernice headed to Spelman College, befriending powerful young women, fighting inequality, and finding

01 The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff Sarah Damoff's novel begins with a young couple, both reeling from DeLozier's historical fiction Eleanore of Avignon , it's 1347, and titular character Eleanore is a young

human life, drug addiction, tragic turns and deaths, and outrageous hubris that is the undoing of the young Mikey drops out, while Rob seems to be a golden child who does and has it all--Marshall details the young The young men involved are insufferable: they are selfish, frequently idiotic, and callous.

01 After Annie by Anna Quindlen In Anna Quindlen's upcoming novel After Annie, the sudden death of a young In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

in-progress stories as well as a new antagonist and a new potential hero who are both strong, fascinating young Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased Meanwhile, two young women, a new antagonist and a new potential hero, trickle into the story until their

Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark  builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious Henry Gaunt, Sydney Ellwood, and their classmates came as young boys to their sometimes claustrophobic But by 1914, World War I is drawing most of these young boys into a swirl of wartime horrors.

appealed to me, I felt a growing lack of connection to the characters as the tales melded into another: young Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark  builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose

Sera Swan was one of Britain's most powerful young witches. handsome, grumpy magical historian, comes to stay at Jasmine and Sera's inn along with his neurodivergent young

terrible crime: killing his mother, a mean, reviled lunch lady long perceived as an enemy of the town's young But the young man, a self-taught artist, is counting on Bob and an unorthodox approach to figuring out

Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy tale Moonbound , it's eleven thousand years in the future, and young A young girl arrives, telling the story of her own timeline, and she and Ariel begin to figure out they Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate In 1909 Oklahoma, one Choctaw sister goes missing from a white settlement, and young

DeLozier's historical fiction Eleanore of Avignon , it's 1347, and the titular character Eleanore is a young Romantic storylines for the twin sisters diverge and serve as important elements in the plot and in the young

Sarah Damoff's novel begins with a young couple, both reeling from past traumas, who forge a future together One minor example: When Gette is a grown woman, she conveniently recalls a moment when she was a very young

But when a young woman shows up bleeding at his home, then mysteriously disappears, he is shocked into and dredge up painful, complex past dynamics and loyalties, while forming an unlikely alliance with a young

Schwab's lesbian vampire tale spans centuries, beginning in 1532 Santo Domingo de la Calzada as a young In 1827 London, naive young Charlotte lives a sheltered, lovely pastoral life, until an indiscretion

; The Women in the Castle, which includes a complicated sort of bravery; and the fantastic book for young and Edith during the war; their wonderfully brave, practical, creative routes to survival as single young Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young In Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Cleave tells the story of Mary, a young British socialite who shocks her men exhilarated to be alive; and the hesitant, excited, young brides living together in close quarters

mother could be due to secrets around her biological origins, and she forges an unexpected bond with a young Polly's connection to the young ladies in her school becomes more evident to her and to the reader as

Young Katarina Shaw always felt that she was meant to become an Olympic champion. When he and Kat met, they made a connection that first built into a best-friendship between two lost young In 1840 in London, young Arthur lives near the sewage-filled River Thames, desperate to escape poverty The concept is mentioned in a conversation between a frightened young trans woman and a mentor of sorts ; later in the novel the young woman realizes that "woodworking" wasn't meant to be a handbook, but a

Williams This is gorgeous Niall Williams literary fiction, centering around an Irish country village, a young Young Noe (short for "Noel") has abandoned the seminary but is unsure of his next steps, and he takes Cate is at times a young dreamer, a haunted lover with a hardened heart, a wildly successful author dipping Evie Beaulieu becomes obsessed with marine life and diving when as a young girl she tests her father's Pacific, crafting art as her only constant; two friends at an elite Chicago high school, a privileged young

Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young Young Anna lives in fifteenth-century Constantinople with her sickly sister, frustrated with endlessly Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Shipstead has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young rescued from that tragedy; it follows the paths of the twins' lives as they grow up; the story tracks young passion for aviation and her adventures; and the book injects a modern-day story line in which a famous young

In the first of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, we're introduced to Captain Will Laurence, a young, upstanding Temeraire is young, greedy, vain, and outrageously loyal to Will, and Will is attempting to civilize

Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy tale Moonbound , it's eleven thousand years in the future, and young A young girl arrives, telling the story of her own timeline, and she and Ariel begin to figure out they

became pregnant by (and married) her beloved high school sweetheart--and after Jo moved in with the young disappointments or life experiences could have prepared her for the horrific, shocking loss of her young up uncomfortable feelings in Jo--who vividly remembers the loss of her beloved father when she was young

ugliness under the surface of their town: a stifled wife reveals her husband's Nazi enthusiasms; a young son realizes that his mother is not dying, only experiencing the natural process of menstruation; a young

Kosta digs into his history as a young professional tennis player--including the unglamorous early tour months, attempts to improve ATP ranking, sleeping on floors, and struggling to focus as a young man

She tries to imagine the points of view of everyone involved, and she treats her young self with empathy acting, which also served as a sort of therapy) eventually allowed Field to come into her fully realized adult Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother when Allison and her sister were young examines her parents, her youth, and that pivotal tragedy, considering how it has shaped her into her adult

Nonie is the young protagonist of this stark climate-change dystopian future, in which her small community In a dystopian future in which the glaciers have melted, Nonie, a young girl with a gift for feeling

01 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones A young professor determined to make her mark is Xavier is a young veterinarian who feels grumpy, exhausted, and as though he may be losing faith in humanity

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s We were not the first young lovers to fail at love in the end. That was one of my favorite books when I was young, and within Learned by Heart, the concern with classism It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies

about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years: Joan, a young in the land, she faces resistance, danger, and complications galore--including the presence of her young

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Our Evenings , Alan Hollinghurst's novel of a young man in boarding Young Dave Win, the son of a Burmese father he never met and a devoted, kind seamstress mother, attends

attempts to uncover; and I'm listening to The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak's magical novel about a young Since her mother Defne went into a coma and never woke up, young loner Ada Kazantzakis lives in London A fig tree with its own voice and point of view witnessed Kostas's young love with Defne and illustrates

I really liked the magical realism, details of life in 1800s England, the young widow main character, In early 1800s England, Isabel is a young widow who is suddenly poor and plagued by destructive rumors

Her charm comes through in candid reflections about her fascinating life, and her young life's adventures I was most intrigued by her young life with Jeffrey; camping in Europe on $5 a day; her early adventures

In Blau's gleefully 1970s-set novel, Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from emotional innocence to young adulthood, she comes into her own, and it's a joy to watch it all unfold. She serves as a foil to the impulsive, emotional, passionate adults she's surrounded by. The character of Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from innocence to young adulthood in various ways; she

Rose works at the diner, hiding her fading bruises and supporting her two young sons after her husband We also meet young Gregory, a promisingly complex character and unlikely hero who uses food as a crutch

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the newest novel by Adrienne Young, time-traveling magical realism 01 The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young June Farrow is biding her time on her family's flower Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy, loosely set in Arthur, the young, haunted-seeming caretaker of the estate, seems resigned to her presence even as he

work's origins begins to emerge, Wilson paints a full picture that spans the characters' coming-of-age young adoration as well as their separate adult lives--and how "the poster" unequivocally shaped them into

begins a winding path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young Young Margo finds herself in the midst of the significant complications of single motherhood, an insecure

occasionally devastating" process of applying to college--and the dangerous potential belief that a young yes or no from Amherst or Dartmouth or Duke or Northwestern is seen as the conclusive measure of a young He emphasizes that it's what a young person does with the opportunities available to them that makes about college and the increasing pressure and weight put upon the acceptance/rejection equation for a young So much is out of young people's control when it comes to college, yet they may be feeling intense pressure

group contributed far more than the others--or, more powerfully, when a few contributed nothing--most adults in dramatic drops in 1990s crime through improvements in neural development of a new generation of young

This is gorgeous Niall Williams literary fiction, centering around an Irish country village, a young Young Noe (short for "Noel") has abandoned the seminary but is unsure of his next steps, and he takes

Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins The wisest adult in Alex's life offers wisdom, savviness, and kindness, and I loved that she was a powerful Kelly Barnhill is also the author of books for young readers including The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Iron

Arienne knew since she was a young girl that because she was born with magic, her future would end with Schwab's lesbian vampire tale spans centuries, beginning in 1532 Santo Domingo de la Calzada as a young In 1827 London, naive young Charlotte lives a sheltered, lovely pastoral life, until an indiscretion Young Cordelia is becoming aware of her mother's significant power and reach, and she is terrified senseless The day young Celia's oldest brother Argent left the house in their war-torn homeland, determined to

Claudia Cravens's story of a young brothel worker in late nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who makes mistakes but whose perseverance and loyalty lead her to an unorthodox Bridget has a chance at a stable new beginning--yet she's young and can't stifle her yearning for adventure