海角大神

1.听贬辞尘别蝉迟别补诲,听by Melinda Moustakis

Melinda Moustakis鈥� clear prose runs like a river through the lives of an ex-soldier and his bride who homestead 150 acres of Alaskan wilderness in the 1950s. Moustakis鈥� storytelling is both tranquil and turbulent, as she immerses the reader in the breathtaking landscape and the couple鈥檚 struggle.聽

2.聽The House of Eve,聽by Sadeqa Johnson

In the 1950s, two Black women 鈥� high school student Ruby and college history major Eleanor 鈥� fall for men who threaten to derail their dreams. Sadeqa Johnson鈥檚 compassionate, cleareyed, and sometimes graphic page turner examines how women in desperate situations respond and move forward.

3.听厂迟别补濒颈苍驳,听by Margaret Verble

鈥淚 love my family, and I鈥檓 going to get to them as soon as I can,鈥� promises Kit, a girl whose close ties to her mother鈥檚 Cherokee family are cut when she is dispatched to an abusive 海角大神 boarding school in the 1950s. Kit chronicles the events leading to her removal from family, home, and community. Frank and fearless, the novel is a portrait of perseverance.聽

4.聽Cold People,聽by Tom Rob Smith

What if Antarctica was humanity鈥檚 new 鈥� and only 鈥� home? Scientists, alarmed by the prospect of humankind鈥檚 extinction, set out to engineer a strain of people who can survive the harsh climate. The secret project, dubbed Cold People, sparks concern as whispers of its successes, and failures, spread. Tom Rob Smith explores the tangled relationship between innovation and ethics.

5.聽Iron Curtain,聽by Vesna Goldsworthy

The privileged daughter of a Communist apparatchik falls in love with a visiting English poet and follows him beyond the Iron Curtain to 1980s bohemian London. Vesna Goldsworthy鈥檚 dramatic tale sparkles with intelligence, wry wit, and warmth. 聽

6.听惭补谤惫别濒辞耻蝉,听by Molly Greeley

Molly Greeley draws inspiration from the Renaissance-era true story that inspired 鈥淏eauty and the Beast鈥� in this extraordinary, grownup reimagining of the tale of an outcast longing for love. 聽

7.聽A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs,聽by Gulchehra Hoja

Gulchehra Hoja鈥檚 vivid memoir tells of her trajectory from growing up as an Uyghur child to hosting a Chinese children鈥檚 TV show to becoming a journalist in America. Rising numbers of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority in China, have been detained in what the government calls 鈥渞eeducation鈥� camps. While on a trip outside China, Hoja discovers reports by Uyghur dissidents about the scale of oppression in China.聽She gets a job with Radio Free Asia in the United States, vowing to be a voice for her people.聽

8.聽The Declassification Engine,聽by Matthew Connelly

Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly has written a gripping and sobering account of the exponential increase in government secrets. He persuasively argues that the United States needs a new strategy to handle classified material, demonstrating that both our national security and the health of our democracy are at stake.

9.聽All the Beauty in the World,聽by Patrick Bringley

Patrick Bringley quit his job at The New Yorker and became a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a position he held for a decade. His moving and illuminating debut reveals the inner workings of the massive institution while also exploring the healing power of art.聽

10.聽Palo Alto,聽by Malcolm Harris

Palo Alto has been characterized as a 鈥減ostmodern El Dorado,鈥� the wealthy, happy, advanced heart of both Stanford University and Silicon Valley. In these lively pages, Malcolm Harris provides counterweight to that modern mythology, painting a far more detailed and complicated picture of the entire region, and exploring the social and economic inequalities that are often glossed over in other accounts.聽