Vol. 1 · Issue 2026
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Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
“Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 2020 review. A failed bank robber takes a Stockholm apartment-viewing hostage. Backman's structurally most ambitious novel and the basis for the Netflix limited series.”
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Conversations with Friends
by Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney 2017 review. Two Dublin college students become entangled with an older married couple. Rooney's debut and the structural predecessor to Normal People.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 2017 review. A thirty-year-old Glasgow office worker develops her first adult friendship. British Book Award Book of the Year 2018.
Mad Honey
by Jodi Picoult
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan 2022 review. A New Hampshire beekeeper's teenage son is accused of murdering his girlfriend. The Picoult-Boylan co-authored breakout.
Spare
by Prince Harry
Spare by Prince Harry 2023 review. The Duke of Sussex's memoir of his life from Diana's death through the 2020 California relocation. The fastest-selling non-fiction book in English-language publishing history.
The Maid
by Nita Prose
The Maid by Nita Prose 2022 review. A neurodivergent hotel maid finds a guest dead in his suite and becomes the primary suspect. New York Times bestseller and the basis for the Florence Pugh film.
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