The Book Club

A summer abroad. A vocabulary list. A grandfather you barely knew. From these small things, R.F. Kuang has built a book that whispers where her earlier novels shouted, and the change in register is going to surprise readers who came to her by way of Babel‘s polemic or

Some novels whisper. Others raise their hands and call something out of the wood. The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden does both, and the result is a quietly defiant historical fantasy that takes a real Breton girl with a real losing hand and asks what might have happened if the old stories had been true.

Anne of Britta...

The opening pages of Land by Maggie O’Farrell drop the reader onto a windswept Atlantic peninsula. The year is 1865, the wind is salted and ceaseless, and a ten-year-old boy named Liam stands holding the end of a surveying chain while his father, Tomás, measures the distance between two drumlins. Twenty years after the Great Hunger emptied this parish of forty cabins...

Detroit hums beneath the smokestacks of 1927, and Ruta Sepetys returns to her birthplace with a story hiding in plain sight for a century. A Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys moves the Lithuanian-American novelist away from the European stages of her earlier work and plants her firmly in the Motor City, swapping deportation trains and refugee ships for hidden speakeasi...

Nora Roberts has been writing for more than four decades, and at this point she could probably plot a romantic suspense novel in her sleep. The Final Target by Nora Roberts, her 2026 release from St. Martin’s Press, sits comfortably inside the territory she has been working since Hidden Nature and Identity: a woman in danger, a quiet town, a steady ...