The Sport of Kings by CE MorganA rich novel about a Kentucky horse-breeding family is both a meditation on race and a bitter inversion of the American dreamThe Power by Naomi AldermanAn inventive tale in which women possess a special power insists that evil acts are gender neutralFirst Love by Gwendoline RileyAn unflinching portrait of a marital trade-off between intimacy and freedomStay With Me by Ayobami AdebayoThis tale of a Nigerian couple under familial pressure to conceive is a subtle and unsentimental triumphDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine ThienAn epic tale of the fate of three musicians in 20th-century ChinaThe Dark Circle by Linda GrantA smart and empathetic story of young tuberculosis patients in a postwar sanatorium
The Sport of Kings by CE MorganA rich novel about a Kentucky horse-breeding family is both a meditation on race and a bitter inversion of the American dreamThe Power by Naomi AldermanAn inventive tale in which women possess a special power insists that evil acts are gender neutralFirst Love by Gwendoline RileyAn unflinching portrait of a marital trade-off between intimacy and freedomStay With Me by Ayobami AdebayoThis tale of a Nigerian couple under familial pressure to conceive is a subtle and unsentimental triumphDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine ThienAn epic tale of the fate of three musicians in 20th-century ChinaThe Dark Circle by Linda GrantA smart and empathetic story of young tuberculosis patients in a postwar sanatorium