By Elizabeth Strout ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""And now he knew why. Because to say anything real was to say things that nobody wanted to know. Or if they wanted to know, they would not care in the right way. Or even understand. It..."
By Chris Pavone ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 ""The corrosive thing about New York is that there's always someone with more- more money, more fame, more power, more respect. It's hard to ever feel as if you've truly made it, hard to stop..."
By Ariel Lawhon ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""Murder an Irishman, and it will cost you your life. Slaughter an Irish child, and they'll make you beg before they let you die. But rape an Irishwoman, and they will take your manhood before..."
By Nafissa Thompson-Spires ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10 ""He tried not to show it in front of the children, but since Mae died, he had less control, and if there was one thing Rich loved, more than his money or me or the children, it was control."..."
By Min Jin Lee ★★★★★★★★★½ 9.5/10 ""I called this meeting in the hopes of pointing out that our community, socio-economic class, culture, and history all seem to demand a kind of unattainable achievement, and it's harming our..."
By Caro Claire Burke ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""When they talked about stay-at-home-mothers- specifically about their stay-at-home-mothers their eyes didn't go misty with gratitude. Instead, they argued bravely that old-school femininity was a..."
By Elizabeth Wellington Rollins ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "" 'You're a good neighbor,' Graziella said. It was the highest compliment she could give anyone other than that they were a good parent. No one thought about neighbors anymore, which darkened her..."
By R.F. Kuang ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""All you could see were the ways in which the Chinese kids were better than you: poreless, sweatless, excellent at math, skilled at weaving their bikes in and out of traffic. How cruel it was to..."
By Jean Rhys ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 ""I know who is talking what they say. That man not a bad man, even if he loves money, but he hears so many stories he don’t know what to believe. That is why he keep away.”..."
By Valerie Perrin ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""As soon as he opened his mouth, I felt solitude falling off me like dead skin. His voice seemed to shine on me, as if he had switched on a lamp above my head. Like when a day seems gloomy, and..."
By Ann Patchett ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""There is so much randomness to youth. The person assigned to share your room becomes your friend, the girl you pass on your way out the door becomes your wife, and from these random encounters our..."
By Ashley Tropea ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10 "” ‘Hope,’ he elaborated. ‘At its core, that’s what prayer is, right? Hope that the gods are listening. Hope that we’re not alone. Hope that they’ll help. It’s a painful thing to lose.’ “..."