The Reviews Are In! April 2024 Edition

A beautifully written short novel about the price of isolation and the desire for community and connection that’s perfect for fans of one of our fiction monthly picks, Paul’s Harding’s This Other Eden.

Music and basketball and great Ohioans are just the start. MacArthur Genius Grant winner Abdurraqib plays with time and memory, intimacy and vulnerability, going away and coming home — and leaves everything on the court.

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A big-hearted, hopeful novel that’s part adventure story, part love story, and a delight to read. The dialogue, characters and sense of place are unforgettable. Not to be missed by fans of Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility or Station Eleven.

The always adored Amor Towles is back with all the essentials readers love — wit, humor, intrigue, panache, atmosphere and the list goes on. With a compelling character cast and settings ranging from Golden Age Hollywood to New York City, this collection of short stories is a genuine treat for long-time readers and newcomers alike.

Edited by Poet Laureate Ada Limón, this anthology of poetry is an ode to the natural world and the way we interact with it. Featuring 50 poems from some of our greatest voices.

Who hasn’t thought about writing down their favorite conversations with friends and making a book out of it? This is what Maggie Nelson has done, and it’s nothing short of brilliant. The author of Bluets gives us essays and conversations, advice and introspection, spanning decades of her career.

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Life gets messy — and our relationships (familial and romantic) can get even messier. With internet bloggers yelling into the void, unrelenting algorithms on every device and dreadful world news aplenty, the people around us can make — or seriously break — our sanity.

A funny, life-affirming novel about storytelling, friendship and death from the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.

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A striking memoir detailing the author’s journey to understanding herself and her mental disorder. With a dynamic and empathetic narrative voice that’s impossible not to root for, this is the kind of memoir that will inspire not just in what the author did for herself, but in the light it sheds on sociopathy as a whole.