Category: Literary prose fiction

The English Understand Wool by Helen de Witt

Hilarious satirical novella (mini-review)

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

Weird but beautifully designed. Great gift for librarians! (mini-review)

Galatea by Madeleine Miller

Powerful feminist retelling of Pygmalion (mini-review)

Talking Tomatoes by Kate Walker

Poignant story set in a high school production of Romeo and Juliet (mini-review)

Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan

Fabulously playful and inventive short stories (mini-review)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Accessible literary page turner (mini-review)

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Short, thoughtful speculative novel

Flock by Ellen van Neerven (ed.)

Varied short story collection (mini-review)

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

Darkly humorous postcolonial novel (mini-review)

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Literary and evocative