“The House in the Cerulean Sea” by T.J. Klune If you were sucked into the magical worlds of “The Land of Stories” and “Harry Potter” books as a kid, then...

“Audition” by Katie Kitamura If anyone can create a thick tension just with words, it's certainly author and NYU professor Katie Kitamura. “Audition,” Kitamura’s...

Content Warning: mentions suicide  “Go, Went, Gone” by Jenny Erpenbeck “Go, Went, Gone” by Jenny Erpenbeck follows Richard, a retired classics professor from...

“Seduction Theory” by Emily Adrian After reading a blurb in The New York Times for “Seduction Theory,” I anxiously awaited the novel’s release all summer. Upon seeing...

“All Fours” by Miranda July Last summer, I was surrounded by books and bookish people for the entire season, and it felt like nobody could stop talking about Miranda July’s...

“Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino  — Alexa Donovan, Arts Editor  “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse...

“Self-Help” by Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore’s short story collection “Self-Help” made me truly appreciate the art of prose. Looking into the lives of various women going...

“The Painted Word” by Tom Wolfe Famed journalist Tom Wolfe, known for his flamboyant and eclectic writing style, manages to both take down and praise the New York...

“The White Album” by Joan Didion “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” I have been praying at the altar of Joan Didion since I was a melancholic...

“Foster” by Claire Keegan “And that is when he puts his arms around me and gathers me into them as though I were his own.” “Foster,” a short little book by...

“On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice” by Sophie Gilbert  “But the ability to shape the narrative in our own terms is a transformative one, as so many of the subjects...

“Writers & Lovers” by Lily King “There’s a particular feeling in your body when something goes right after a long time of things going wrong. It feels warm and...