by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this luminous collection navigates the delicate territory between inherited traditions and the enigmatic pull of modern American life, focusing on universal longings for connection.
Ted Chiang
Including "Story of Your Life"—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival—this visionary collection combines profound human emotion and rigorous scientific inquiry, exploring the consequences of alien contact, mathematical truth, and theological towers.
Shauna Singh Baldwin
"Shauna Singh Baldwin's passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university. These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its power to seize their freedom."--Jacket.
Barbara Kingsolver
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that repurposes David Copperfield, Kingsolver tells an unforgettable tale of resilience.
William Faulkner
Novels, 1936-1940 is a celebrated work by William Faulkner (Nobel Laureate, Double Pulitzer Prize Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.