Fiction

Dryland

Sara Jaffe
Dryland
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – March 2023

A bighearted debut with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology. Takes the reader to both the world of the ancient greeks and modern America at the same time – all the drama of the ancient Greek and Roman mythology packed into one week of modern family living. ”For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe: The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut”

Olympus, Texas

Stacey Swann
Olympus, Texas
Paperback

Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
Paperback

Lost Property

Helen Paris
Lost Property
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Feb 2023

This is a true story. An author goes on a book tour for his new bestseller which, as people keep telling him, is one hell of a book. This is a coming-of-age story. One morning, he meets The Kid: a young Black boy who looks just like the one he keeps seeing on the news. And The Kid wants him to tell his story. This is a sad story. It’s the story of a boy who spent most of his life trying to hide. And it may not be that different from the story of our author. This is a love story. But to find out why, you’ll have to read this for yourself... Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

Hell of a Book

Jason Mott
Hell of a Book
Paperback

A Bicycle Made For Two

Mary Jayne Baker
A Bicycle Made For Two
Paperback

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters
Detransition, Baby
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Jan 2023

Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their writing course. It's there that he meets Alma, a Writer-in-Residence, who seems to have everything Owen doesn't - a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, and published success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma, from a supportive, liberal family of Bosnian immigrants, struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with his own family and home. / *Join the reading group /  
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