What We're Reading

A running list of what our writers are picking up right now.

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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Ben Reeves

Travis looks like anyone else on the block — until you realize he's the human face of Death. A debut about what happens when he lets the neighbors in anyway.

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Brawler: Stories

Lauren Groff

Nine stories spanning decades and coastlines, each circling the same quiet war between our better and darker instincts.

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The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah

A family chases a fresh start into the Alaskan wilderness in 1974 — and finds the wild outside is nothing next to the storm at home.

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Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

A memoir on the fierce, complicated woman who raised her, and how that relationship shaped the writer Roy became.

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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Four college friends build lives together in New York, and slowly learn how much of one of them stays hidden.

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The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions

Ruth Ozeki

Ozeki's first story collection — eleven tales about the lives we almost lived and the people we can't quite let go of.

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Small Scale Sinners: Stories

Mahreen Sohail

Twelve stories of women in Pakistan navigating marriage, family, and the cost of love, from a 2026 PEN/Faulkner winner.

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Lost Man's Lane

Scott Carson

A teenage PI intern gets pulled into a small-town disappearance that turns out to be darker than anyone's willing to admit.

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On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

Solvej Balle

A woman gets stuck reliving November 18th, over and over — and starts quietly building a life inside a day no one else remembers.

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The Keeper

Tana French

The final Cal Hooper novel — a drowning in a quiet Irish village cracks open old loyalties and a long-buried scheme.

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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

Stephen Greenblatt

A biography of Christopher Marlowe — Shakespeare's brilliant, dangerous rival, and the England that made him.

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