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Fiction
Until August
by Gabriel García Márquez.
The Nobel Prize winner’s final novel was discovered in his archive after he died in 2014. Marquez’s themes of self-realization, the complications of love, and self-agency paired with his signature poetic style will charm readers old and new.
James
by Percival Everett.
This is a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s companion, the escaped slave Jim. With both humor and gravity, Jim tells his own story of survival and the extremes he must go to for freedom.
The Morningside
by Téa Obreht.
On an island devastated by flooding, a program to repopulate moves Silvia and her mother to the deteriorating Morningside apartments, a cramped location where folklore from Silvia’s unnamed homeland comes to life.
The Hunter
by Tana French.
When an abusive and absent father returns to a small Irish town with plans to get rich and outrun debts, one of his abandoned kids doesn’t just want to stop him, she wants revenge.
Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange.
In this sequel of sorts to his Pulitzer Prize-nominated There There, Orange follows a Native American community for decades to show and give context to the impact of historical trauma.
Nonfiction
Splinters
by Leslie Jamison.
After a challenging marriage, Jamison was transformed by giving birth and getting to know her infant. In examining her own story and understanding her own needs through this memoir, Jamison takes readers on a journey of self-discovery.
Smoke and Ashes
by Amitav Ghosh.
Ghosh did a tremendous amount of research for his fictional Ibis trilogy — enough to pen this riveting account of the history of opium, tracing its rise as a global import in China to the destructive path that has led to the modern opioid crisis.
A Map of Future Ruins
by Lauren Markham.
A longtime journalist focused on the global immigration crisis turns her gaze to her family’s homeland, Greece, investigating a refugee camp that was burned down in 2020, allegedly by six Afghani refugees.
The Great Wave
by Michiko Kakutani.
Once a most formidable book critic, Kakutani has started writing in her own right. Her latest delves into the global financial crisis, COVID, the Donald Trump effect, and other dinner-table taboos to assess why we’re in this moment of polarization.
The Achilles Trap
by Steve Coll.
While many of us are familiar in broad strokes with Saddam Hussein’s reign, never before has there been such an exhaustive account of his actions, including the puzzling reasons he claimed to have WMDs.
This article appears in the March/April 2024 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Subscribe to the magazine for more art, inspiring stories, fiction, humor, and features from our archives.
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