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When her 50-something boyfriend tires of her, she finds herself wandering penniless through the Hamptons looking for her next sponsor. The Guest by Emma Cline (bestselling author of The Girls) is a page-turning read about a 22-year old friendless grifter who lives off the crumbs of wealth from older men of means. If you’ve been melancholy about time passing you by, parents and kids growing older, or if you’ve lost someone and miss them terribly, Signal Fires might give you a hopeful perspective about the profound cycle of life where nothing is lost and everything is gained. I recommended this book to half a dozen friends who couldn’t stop praising this meandering tale about life, memory, tragedy, childhood, and how time is merely a mix of past, present, and future all at once.

It’s a compelling story about civic responsibility, growing old, loyalties, family, and tightly held secrets that beg to be unraveled. The lifelong friendship of two women in their eighties is put to the test when they seek to be the stewards of their much-coveted family land in Maine that boasts million-dollar sea views, abundant wildlife, and bucolic landscapes. He struggles through them with courage and grit.įellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark. But like a Dickens character Demon is set on a path of heartbreaking challenges.

The young protagonist, Damon (Demon), is beset with tragedy starting with his absent, drug-addicted teen mother who attempts to raise him in a single-wide trailer. Pulitzer Prize Winner of 2023, Demon Copperhead is a Dickensian saga loosely modeled after David Copperfield and set in the the mountains of modern-day Appalachia. What unfolds is a book that poses political questions (without taking sides) and challenges us to rethink impact, responsibility, ownership, and exploitation.ĭemon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. An encounter happens and complete mayhem ensues.īirnam Wood by Booker prize-winner Eleanor Catton is a gripping literary thriller that follows a group of young gardening activists and their encounter with an American billionaire who has come to New Zealand ostensibly to build an underground bunker in the countryside. The story unfolds in the two horse town of Hudson and follows a 45-year old woman who works from home as a transcriptionist for a sex therapist (his anonymous patients identify themselves using initials but are recognized around town by the transcriptionist from their distinct voices). Beautifully written, philosophical, scientific, poetic and thought-provoking, The Mountain in the Sea is a deep dive into our place in the ecosystem.īig Swiss by Jen Beagin is the weirdest, LOL-hilarious book since Kevin Wilson’s Nothing To See Here.

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If you’re intrigued by artificial intelligence, dystopian futures, and loved the movie My Octopus Teacher this book is for you. The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler is one of our favorite books of the year. Think we’re missing something? Email us at what thewhatlist dot com and we’ll add it to our queue. This year, for the very first time, we’ve also added Non-Fiction titles. Every year, we read over a hundred fiction books and recommend our favorites-titles to satisfy most readers-a mix of propulsive pageturners, historical fiction, mysteries, family dramas, sci-fi, breakthrough debuts, and short stories. At THE WHAT we are best known for our Book Lists.