25 books
R.E. Burrillo
Burrillo took the long way to Cedar Mesa — upstate New York, then New Orleans tending bar for five years trying to be a writer, then seasonal work in Glacier and two summers on the North Rim, which is where…
Mariko Higaki
Higaki is an industrial designer at Seiko, and this teaches drawing as a way of understanding how things are made. You sketch a stapler, a chair, a shoe, a coffee grinder — and the exercises push you to look for…
Isabel Carmona Andreu
Confession: I have an absurdly large collection of urban sketching books and spend more time admiring their artwork than actually drawing. That’s okay. This is a beginner’s book, and right up my alley. Andreu sketches around Newbury in England and…
Chana Porter
An alien species arrives and instead of invading it just seeps into everything — the water, the food, the bodies — and makes the world gentle. There’s no scarcity, no illness, no death you don’t choose. Trina Goldberg-Oneka, a trans…
Sergio Olguín
Verónica Rosenthal, a Buenos Aires journalist on holiday in the north of Argentina, spends a few days with two young women travelers — one Italian, one Colombian. Days later, both are found raped and murdered in the hills of Tucumán.…
Charlotte McConaghy
Franny Stone talks her way onto a fishing boat in Greenland by promising the crew that the Arctic terns she has tagged will lead them to the last fish in a mostly emptied ocean. The birds are making what may…
John Lanchester
Sea level rose, and Britain has ringed the entire island in concrete. Every citizen serves two years as a Defender on the wall, twelve-hour shifts staring at cold water, and the rule is simple: If Others get past you, you…
Tana French
Cal Hooper takes early retirement from the Chicago police after twenty-five years, a divorce, and a daughter who barely speaks to him, buys a wrecked cottage in the west of Ireland, and plans to fix it up and shoot rooks…
Margaret Atwood
It’s thirty-odd years after The Handmaid’s Tale, told by three women. Aunt Lydia, the most senior of the Aunts, who runs Ardua Hall and has spent years quietly compiling files on everybody who matters. Agnes, raised inside as a commander’s…
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
These are bite-sized essays, one animal or plant each, illustrated by Fumi Nakamura. Nezhukumatathil is a poet, and each piece runs the natural history alongside her own life — Indian and Filipino parents, a childhood moving between Arizona, Kansas, and…
