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December 04, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

As we near the end of 2024, we feature the Top 20 Books of the Year chosen by our subscribers, and announce our Award Winners. Plus, our reviewers cover four books voted in by write-in nomination especially for this issue. We're grateful to everyone who participated for contributing to a fantastic annual roundup.

The winner of our Top Debut award is Eve J. Chung's sweeping Daughters of Shandong, which follows a mother and her daughters escaping from China to Taiwan duringmore

November 20, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

In our second-to-last issue of the year, we feature recent books from acclaimed authors that paint vivid pictures of lives in retrospect. Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings spans a British actor's memories from the 1960s to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and André Aciman's Roman Year recounts a period spent in Rome as a young adult after his Jewish family was exiled from Egypt. Weike Wang's upcoming Rental House also travels through time, examining American societymore

November 06, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we bring you the latest from acclaimed author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Message reflects on historical narratives and their meaning as the reader travels alongside Coates through Senegal, South Carolina, and the Middle East. Our accompanying Beyond the Book article presents works of art and writing that tell stories of ordinary Palestinian life.

Other excellent new nonfiction includes My Good Bright Wolf, a poetic memoir in which award-winningmore

October 16, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we catch up with the latest in the universe of Elizabeth Strout. Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, the town of Crosby, Maine, and some minor characters from previous books all have parts to play in the beautifully orchestrated Tell Me Everything.

Another new contemporary work of fiction by an old hand is Charles Baxter's Blood Test, a delightful satirical take on modern for-profit healthcare in which a mild-mannered Midwestern dad is informed by amore

October 02, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

As we move into October and the cooler breeze carries the promise of darker days ahead, we bring you some spine-chilling reading for the scariest month of the year. Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium, a "health resort horror story," follows a young guest "taking the waters" in a European mountain spa town during the days before World War I, as rumors of unsettling happenings flow. Rivers Solomon's Model Home is a modern haunted house tale about a Black American family whomore

September 18, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we're excited to bring you three strikingly original titles that just made this year's National Book Award for Fiction longlist. Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake features a secret agent infiltrating a French commune in a one-of-a-kind novel that mixes modern anxieties with classic espionage. Yr Dead, the poignant fiction debut of poet Sam Sax, follows a young person in the reflective moments leading up to a death they've chosen. Tony Tulathimutte's entertaining more

September 04, 2024

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we bring you the latest from Booker finalist Elif Shafak. There Are Rivers in the Sky is an ambitious novel of three linked timelines that ranges from the Tigris to the Thames. We also feature an impressive debut story collection with a strikingly similar title — Ruben Reyes Jr.'s There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, which puts a supernatural spin on the experiences of Latinx immigrants — along with a connected reading list of more speculative fiction dealing withmore

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