by Alice McDermott (2023)
A searing, instant New York Times bestseller from National Book Award winner Alice McDermott. Set in 1963 Saigon on the brink of the Vietnam War, Absolution follows the American corporate and diplomatic wives living in luxury on the margins of catastrophe, exploring guilt, complicity, and unintended devastation.
Laurie Lico Albanese
A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Isobel Gamble, a talented young Scottish seamstress with the gift of synesthesia, flees to Salem in 1829. Abandoned by her husband, she meets an intense young writer named Nat Hawthorne and embarks on an intoxicating, forbidden affair while crafting intricate needlework.
Amor Towles
On New Year's Eve 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent meets handsome banker Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz dive, catapulting her into the glittering orbit of New York's aristocratic upper crust.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself.
Ken Follett
In twelfth-century England, amid devastating civil war and religious strife, master builder Tom Builder and Prior Philip dedicate their lives to constructing the greatest Gothic cathedral Europe has ever seen.