20th Century
A Fierce Radiance
Editors' choice
Set on the home front of New York City during World War II, Belfer’s second novel (after the acclaimed City…
Ondine: The Summer of Shambles
Ondine de Groot runs away from Psychic Summercamp to return to her family home, an inn, taking with her a…
Leaving Gee’s Bend
(1) Ten-year-old Ludelphia Bennett has never left Gee’s Bend, a sharecropping village on the Alabama River. But her mother is…
Turtle in Paradise
“When I asked Moma about my Conch relatives, she said her parents had been dead for a long time, but…
An Irish Country Girl
Patrick Taylor has created a delightful series set in the little town of Ballybucklebo, Northern Ireland, in the mid-1960s. An…
Hazel
In 1913, thirteen-year-old Hazel Mull-Dare has a comfortable, yet unconventional life in London with a mother who is obsessed with…
The Blue Orchard
Editors' choice
The Blue Orchard, set in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from the 1920s to the late 1950s, is the fictionalized story of Verna…
The Suicide Run
Although not usually a fan of short stories, I enjoyed these much more than I expected. Drawing on powerful personal…
The Lotus Eaters
Editors' choice
Helen Adams is an American photojournalist in love with South Vietnam because it is so “unlovable” during its transition in…
Vanessa and Virginia
In London between the wars, artist Vanessa Bell and her sister, the author Virginia Woolf, members of the influential Bloomsbury…
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