Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck made history as the first German-language winner of the International Booker Prize with this gripping love story set against the fall of the GDR, accessible worldwide as an audiobook.
novel · literary fiction · long · recent · audiobook
The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden achieved a Booker shortlist and Women's Prize win with this tense, sensual post-war Dutch masterpiece, widely found on global audiobook services.
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Orbital
Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize-winning lyrical novel tracks six astronauts orbiting the Earth over twenty-four hours, widely found across global audiobook platforms.
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Prophet Song
Paul Lynch’s harrowing, Booker Prize-winning dystopian masterwork captures a mother’s desperate fight for survival in a collapsing Ireland, accessible on international audiobook networks.
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The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese offers a magnificent, multi-generational medical epic set in Kerala, South India, available worldwide on major audiobook services.
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The Bee Sting
Paul Murray’s massive, tragicomic Booker-shortlisted family saga chronicles a chaotic Irish household facing financial ruin, available globally through major audiobook sellers and digital libraries.
novel · literary fiction · long · recent · audiobook
Demon Copperhead
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Barbara Kingsolver’s sprawling modern epic follows an indomitable boy growing up through foster care and the opioid crisis in Appalachia, widely accessible on major global audiobook platforms.
novel · literary fiction · long · recent · audiobook
The Seed of a New World
Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ's debut novel follows a young African woman journeying through self-discovery and cultural identity, weaving a narrative of hope, resilience, and the search for belonging in a new environment.
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This Could Be Paradise
Maggie Smith's debut novel introduces a young woman whose life changes when she inherits a dilapidated house in upstate New York, exploring themes of self-discovery, reinvention, and finding connection in unexpected places.
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Between Two Moons
Aisha Abdel Gawad's debut novel follows twin sisters in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, as they navigate family, identity, and community during Ramadan, offering a moving portrayal of resilience and finding one's path.
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Our Best Intentions
Vibhuti Jain's debut novel delves into a South Asian American family's complexities after a tragic event, exploring justice, community, and the sacrifices made for love and belonging in a nuanced and hopeful way.
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My Name Is a Knife
P.K. Chupack's debut novel tells the story of an aspiring chef whose life is transformed after a fateful encounter in a restaurant kitchen, exploring themes of belonging, passion, and reinventing oneself.
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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
James Hannaham's powerful novel offers a profoundly funny and dark look at a trans woman returning to life after prison, praised for its spectacular language and poetic writing.
novel · literary fiction · funny · recent · audiobook
Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon's historical novel, shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, presents a darkly funny tale of Athenian slaves during the Peloponnesian War who attempt to create a play.
novel · literary fiction · funny · recent · audiobook
Cursed Daughters
Oyinkan Braithwaite's Lagos-set novel tells a multi-generational story of a family curse, brought to life by a brilliant cast of narrators.
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The Director
Daniel Kehlmann's translated novel follows a world-famous director who, after fleeing to Hollywood, finds himself back in Austria and considered a nobody, with Joseph Goebbels seeing potential in him for propaganda.
novel · literary fiction · funny · recent · audiobook
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton, a Booker Prize winner, delivers a gripping psychological drama about a guerrilla gardening collective in New Zealand that encounters a tech billionaire with his own mysterious interests in their chosen plot of abandoned land.
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James
Percival Everett offers a powerful and darkly humorous reimagining of Mark Twain's classic *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, told from the perspective of the enslaved character, Jim.
novel · literary fiction · long · recent · audiobook
Blacktail
Scott Hawkins, known for his unique dark fantasy, presents a tale of lupine vengeance where a wolf seeks revenge for his mate and becomes entangled in a mission to end the human race.
novel · literary fiction · long · recent · audiobook
The Book of Everlasting Things
Aanchal Malhotra's debut novel tells a sweeping love story between a Hindu perfumer and a Muslim calligrapher, set against the backdrop of the Partition of India.
novel · literary fiction · cosy · short · recent
Victory City
Salman Rushdie's epic novel, narrated by a 14th-century poet, chronicles the rise and fall of a fantastical empire in India, envisioned by a young girl blessed by a goddess.
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Penance
Eliza Clark’s novel, being adapted for television, delves into the aftermath of a shocking teenage murder in a seaside town, recounted through a journalist's investigation.
novel · literary fiction · cosy · short · recent
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
Patrick Ness introduces a new middle-grade series with this novel about a lizard who finds himself on an unexpected adventure.
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Piper at the Gates of Dusk
Patrick Ness revisits the world of Chaos Walking in this novel where two brothers, sons of original characters, confront a new mystery stemming from a sighting in the night sky.
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The Lost King: The Search for Richard III
Philippa Langley's book details her extraordinary, persistent quest to find the lost burial site of King Richard III, a story that inspired a film about her unwavering determination.
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The Old Oak
Paul Laverty's narrative, tied to Ken Loach's film, portrays the challenges and tentative hopes of a small, struggling English mining town as it grapples with the arrival of Syrian refugees.
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Past Lives Screenplay Book
Celine Song's collection includes the screenplay for her acclaimed film about two childhood sweethearts who reconnect decades after one emigrated from South Korea, exploring themes of destiny and love across different lives.
novel · literary fiction · cosy · short · recent
Bodies
Klára Vlasáková's novel gives voice to older women finding themselves on the margins of Czech society, examining contemporary issues with a strong and critical perspective.
novel · literary fiction · unsettling · recent · audiobook
Memory Burn
Marek Torčík's debut novel explores queer identity and the challenges of growing up in a dysfunctional family within a small, forgotten Moravian town in the Czech Republic.
novel · literary fiction · unsettling · recent · audiobook
Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising
Margarita Morris crafts a suspenseful narrative about a young woman in 1950s Budapest who must fight for freedom and survival when her father is arrested by the Secret Police and the Hungarian Uprising ignites.
novel · literary fiction · unsettling · recent · audiobook
The Dispossessed: A Novel
Szilárd Borbély offers a haunting portrayal of a partially Jewish family struggling with poverty and ostracism in a Hungarian village during the late 1960s and early 1970s, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
novel · literary fiction · unsettling · recent · audiobook
The Empusium
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk invites listeners to a sanatorium in a remote Polish mountain village in 1913, where a new arrival discovers the unsettling truths and hidden horrors beneath its seemingly idyllic surface.
novel · literary fiction · unsettling · recent · audiobook
Crooked Plow
Itamar Vieira Junior's award-winning novel, translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz, tells the compelling story of two Afro-Brazilian sisters in Bahia whose lives are profoundly altered by a childhood incident, available in print, ebook, and audiobook.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith's historical novel, set against the backdrop of Victorian England's legal trials, explores themes of truth and storytelling through the eyes of Mrs. Eliza Touchet and Andrew Bogle, and is accessible as a paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
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Parade
Rachel Cusk's latest novel, winner of the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize, presents an unnamed narrator exploring European art exhibitions and contemplating various artists, and can be found in print, ebook, and as an audiobook.
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Country People
Daniel Mason's newest work invites readers into the wild landscapes of Vermont as a family becomes entangled in a unique local legend, widely available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.
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