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February 2025
Maggie Su
Vi Liu has never quite fit into her Midwestern college town. Now, at twenty-three, after getting dumped and dropping out of college, she works as a front desk hotel attendant, fending off overtures of friendship from her bubbly blond coworker, Rachel. But when Vi decides to accompany Rachel to a local drag show, she finds a blob with beady black eyes in the alley outside the bar. Vi picks up the creature and takes it home with her. As her pet blob becomes sentient, Vi decides to mold it into her ideal partner. But as Vi's desire to be loved spirals out of control, she is forced to confront her childhood, ex-boyfriend, and the racial marginalization that has defined her relationships.
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A.J. Jacono
Danzy Senna
Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she; her painter husband, Lenny; and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her “mulatto War and Peace,” she’ll have some semblance of stability. But things don’t work out quite as hoped. In search of a plan B, Jane turns her desperate gaze to Hollywood. After she meets with a hot young producer to create “diverse content” for a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a “real writer.” Things seem to be going right for Jane—until they go terribly wrong.
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A.J. Jacono
Jesse Ball
In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes. The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy’s broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception. Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, The Repeat Room is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment.
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A.J. Jacono
Louise Erdrich
In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter’s and her own. These characters are set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009.
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A.J. Jacono
Sally Rooney
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old loner and competitive chess player. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude.
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A.J. Jacono
Sarah Manguso
When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including—a few years later—all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it’s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John’s ambitions, whims, and ego. As Jane’s career flourishes, their marriage falters. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. Until John leaves her. Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising from its ashes.
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A.J. Jacono
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
In 1980, Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream.But nearly forty years later, it’s clear that nobody ever got over anything. Carl has spent years seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better. As they hover at the precipice of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to nothing, and they must face questions about how much their wealth has played a part in their lives.
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A.J. Jacono
Janie Kim
Told with poetic prose and an imaginative voice, this “beautifully composed” (Joyce Carol Oates) debut novel explores trauma and belonging through a woman’s journey to reconnect with her roots. Abby Rodier was a “drop-box baby,” a Korean orphan whose mother left her as an infant. Abby’s tumultuous experience in the American foster care system has led her to live a solitary and guarded life, closed off to almost everyone except her best friend Iseul, whose parents took Abby into their home as a child. Abby’s work studying the origins of life in sea slugs and bacteria leads her to wonder about her birth parents and question her place in this world. It’s not long before Abby stumbles upon a biological discovery that will change the course of her life.
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A.J. Jacono
Elizabeth Birkelund
A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of a renowned Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed, in this tender and romantic novel set in a French village.
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A.J. Jacono
Jordan Salama
One Thanksgiving afternoon at his grandparents’ house, Jordan Salama discovers a large binder stuffed with yellowing papers and old photographs—a five-hundred-year wandering history of his Arab-Jewish family, from Moorish Spain to Ottoman Syria to Argentina. One story in particular captures his attention: that of his great-grandfather, a Syrian-born, Arabic-speaking Jewish immigrant to Argentina who in the 1920s worked as a traveling salesman in the Andes—and may have left behind forgotten descendants. Encouraged by his grandfather, Jordan goes in search of these “Lost Salamas,” traveling more than a thousand miles up the spine of South America’s greatest mountain range.
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A.J. Jacono
M.G. Lord
The 30th anniversary edition of the classic! Since Barbie's introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what, for better or worse, was expected of them. In telling Barbie's fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M.G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world.
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A.J. Jacono
Dolly Alderton
Andy loves Jen; Jen loved Andy. He can't work out why she stopped. Now, he has no home, is waiting for his stand-up career to take off, and wonders why everyone around him seems to have matured. Unmoored on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship, because, if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story. This book is funny, relatable, and a beautiful exploration of romantic disaster.
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A.J. Jacono
Katherine Min
The Fetishist is the story of three people: Kyoko, a Japanese-American punk-rock singer full of rage and grief; Daniel, a philandering violinist forced to confront the wreckage of his past; and Alma, the love of Daniel’s life, a Korean-American cello prodigy long adored for her beauty, passion, and talent, but who spends her final days examining if she was ever loved. A provocative story that confronts race, complicity, visibility, and femininity, The Fetishist was written before the celebrated author’s untimely death in 2019.
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A.J. Jacono
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Loretta Thurwar and Hamara Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly controversial program covering America’s private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators, and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: freedom.
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Scott Woltz
Tess Gunty
An online obituary writer; a young mother with a dark secret; a woman waging a solo campaign against rodents—this National Book Award-winning debut novel is an ingeniously plotted, braided narrative about a group of unlikely characters living in a crumbling apartment complex in the postindustrial Midwest.
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A.J. Jacono
Mona Awad
This extraordinarily weird book explores the dynamics between Samantha, an MFA student, and an unnerving group of rich girls in the program who draw Samantha into their clique and share with her their writing antics. From there, things get freaky. This novel satirizes the lengths writers will go to get that pretty, perfect draft, and the mdness that can go hand-in-hand with making art.
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