Category: Literary fiction & Poetry

Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated by Joseph Earp

A funny & thoughtful exploration of art and life

Very Impressive for Your Age by Eleanor Kirk

What happens when a rising opera singer loses her voice?

All Fours by Miranda July

Risky, engaging literary take on perimenopause & freedom

Butter by Asako Yuzuki

A powerful feminist take on body image, food and women’s pleasure

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

Mostly entertaining mash up of literary whodunnit and cli-fi

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

Alice in the underworld

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Coming of age for a scholarship girl at a posh boarding school

Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

Funny & fabulous satire skewers power, bureaucracy & media

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

A fun & intelligent update of Pride & Prejudice

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

Observational, gently humorous & wholly engrossing