by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people upon the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends not to hear him, but then she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.
Hanya Yanagihara
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they are broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tethered to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma.
Mona Awad
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort: a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny".
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.
Anna Ralph
In the time when he was still a collection of movements and mannerisms I observed from a distance, when he had no history, no future that I could guess, that is the time I'd have back. Then, he was a boy, like me, though nothing like me. Perhaps it was that, the differences which drew me to him.