Exploring Captivating Stories Together
Set on the same sun-drenched shores as Carley Fortune’s debut novel Every Summer After, this companion novel follows
Sam’s older brother, Charlie Florek, and Alice Everly, a photographer caught between reinvention and reflection.
It’s a slow-burn that builds into something unforgettable. Equal parts sultry, sincere, and soul-soothing.
A soft and sorrowful gem that makes you want to savor your time, love harder, and pet every cat you meet.
Set inside the venerable Swedish publishing house Rydéns, Andromeda traces the intertwined perspectives of Sofie, a young intern, and Gunnar, the editor-in-chief who takes her under his wing. Therese Bohman delivers a compact, observant novel about the delicate dance between tradition and modernity, ambition and nostalgia, and the charged space between platonic respect and something more ambiguous.
In Playground, Richard Powers dives deep into the beauty and fragility of the Pacific while tangling with technology’s promise—and peril. Makatea’s reef-lined shores set the stage for a story that blends ocean conservation, board game strategy, and the rise of artificial intelligence. It’s an ambitious, idea-packed novel that soars in its exploration of the sea and stumbles in its late-game twist.
Thematically rich and blessed with a spectacular setting and cast of intriguing characters, The God of the Woods may be my favorite novel of 2024.
The Animators explores a partnership through success and subsequent trials, examining how they push one another as a found family.
A haunting, genre-blurring tale that aims to interrogate legacy, violence, and redemption—though not every shot lands, the ones that do are unforgettable.