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Literary & Historical Fiction
Character-driven fiction and mythic or historical retellings, read slowly and often re-read for the prose.
A Little Life
Be warned before you start: A Little Life is one of the most discussed "devastating" reads in modern literary fiction, and readers are split between calling it the best book they've ever finished and not finishing it at…
CIRCE
Miller's Circe takes a side character from the Odyssey and gives her centuries of her own story: exile, witchcraft, and an Odysseus who's far less heroic up close. It's a rare mythology retelling that holds up even for r…
Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese's Book Club
This is Henry pivoting away from straight rom-com: two writers competing to ghostwrite a reclusive heiress's memoir, with the "real" story unfolding in pieces neither of them can fully trust. It's plottier and more struc…
It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us is Hoover's most-discussed book for a reason beyond the romance; it's written around domestic abuse, drawn in part from her mother's experience, with an author's note worth reading before or after. It's h…
The Song of Achilles A Novel
Miller's debut reframes Achilles and Patroclus's bond as the emotional center of the Trojan War, not a footnote to it; it's mythology retelling built entirely around one relationship, and it's become one of the most-reco…