Bittersweet

by Haruki Murakami · 1987 · Japanese Literature / Coming-of-age

In late-60s Tokyo, Toru drifts between two women and the shadow of his friend's death.

by Colleen Hoover · 2016 · Romance / Contemporary

Lily discovers a cycle of domestic violence in her marriage and must choose to end it.

by Audrey Niffenegger · 2003 · Romance / Speculative

Henry involuntarily time-travels; Clare waits her whole life for him.

by Leigh Bardugo · 2015 · YA / Fantasy

Six outcasts attempt an impossible heist.

by Brandon Sanderson · 2006 · Fantasy

Kelsier leads a heist crew to overthrow an immortal tyrant.

by Madeline Miller · 2018 · Mythology / Historical

The witch Circe across a thousand years of exile.

by Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021 · Literary / Sci-fi

Klara, an AI 'Artificial Friend', observes the family she serves.

by Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · Literary / Post-apocalyptic

A father and son walk the wasteland after an extinction event.

by Khaled Hosseini · 2003 · Literary / Historical

Amir returns to Afghanistan to confront a childhood betrayal.

by Toni Morrison · 1987 · Literary / Historical

Sethe, an escaped slave, is haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed.

by Stephen Chbosky · 1999 · YA / Coming-of-age

High-school freshman Charlie writes letters about his year.

by Wilson Rawls · 1961 · Classic / Middle Grade

Young Billy and his two coonhounds, Old Dan and Little Ann.

by John Grogan · 2005 · Memoir / Pet

The Grogans adopt 'the world's worst dog', Marley.

by Garth Stein · 2008 · Contemporary / Pet

A racing driver and his dog Enzo — narrated by the dog.

by Robert James Waller · 1992 · Romance / Contemporary

Iowa farmwife Francesca shares four intense days with photographer Robert before choosing her family.

by Graham Greene · 1951 · Literary / Postwar British

During the Blitz, novelist Bendrix's affair with his friend's wife Sarah ends abruptly; he investigates why.

by Celeste Ng · 2017 · Contemporary / Family

In 1990s Shaker Heights, a mysterious artist and her daughter collide with the Richardson family.

by Lauren Groff · 2015 · Literary / Marriage

Twenty-four years of Lotto and Mathilde's marriage told twice — his bright version, then her dark one.

by Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2019 · Music / Historical Fiction

Oral-history of a 1970s rock band: Daisy and lead singer Billy's chemistry strains Billy's marriage to Camila.

by Milan Kundera · 1984 · Literary / Philosophical

Around the Prague Spring, surgeon Tomas oscillates between wife Tereza and mistress Sabina against a political backdrop.

by Bonnie Garmus · 2022 · Romance / Feminist / 1960s

A 1960s woman chemist pushed out of academia accidentally becomes a TV cooking-show host who teaches housewives via chemistry.

by Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017 · Romance / LGBTQ+ / Hollywood

A reclusive Hollywood icon picks an unknown journalist to tell the truth about her seven marriages — and the one love of her life.

by Gayle Forman · 2009 · YA / Contemporary

After a car crash, 17-year-old cellist Mia hovers between life and death, replaying her family and first love.

by John Green · 2005 · YA / Boarding School

Miles transfers to an Alabama boarding school and meets the mercurial Alaska Young.

by Fonda Lee · 2017 · Fantasy / Urban / Mafia Family

In a city-state where jade grants martial powers, the Kaul family fights a rival clan for control.

by Scott Lynch · 2006 · Fantasy / Heist

Camorr's smartest grifter Locke pulls a con, only to crash into a far bigger conspiracy.

by Katherine Arden · 2017 · Fantasy / Russian Folklore

Medieval rural Rus'; Vasya can see house-spirits and clashes with the new priest's purifying faith.

by M. L. Wang · 2019 · Fantasy / Military / Family

A mountain village of sword-mages, sheltered by imperial lies, faces real invasion and forced truths.

by Stieg Larsson · 2005 · Thriller / Nordic Noir

A disgraced journalist and a hacker investigate a 40-year-old disappearance and tear open a family's darkness.

by Liv Constantine · 2017 · Thriller / Domestic / Revenge

An ambitious woman targets a wealthy couple, aiming to replace the wife.

by Min Jin Lee · 2017 · Literary / Family Saga

An early-20th-century Korean girl marries into Japan; four generations endure discrimination — an epic saga.

by Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 · Literary / Post-apocalyptic

Twenty years after a flu pandemic, a traveling Shakespeare troupe wanders a depopulated North America.

by George Saunders · 2017 · Literary / Experimental

After Lincoln's son dies, he lingers in the bardo; the graveyard's ghosts narrate the father's grief.

by Fred Gipson · 1956 · Classic / Middle Grade

A 1860s Texas boy and the stray yellow dog who becomes his.

by Richard Adams · 1972 · Classic / Animal Fable

A band of rabbits flees their warren on an epic search for a new home.

by Mark Haddon · 2003 · Contemporary / Literary

Christopher, an autistic teenager, investigates the killing of his neighbour's dog Wellington.

by Greg Kincaid · 2008 · Contemporary / Pet

A developmentally disabled young man fosters a shelter dog over the holidays.

by Jack London · 1903 · Classic / Animal

Buck, a domesticated dog from the south, is kidnapped to the Yukon and gradually returns to the wild.

by Willie Morris · 1995 · Memoir / Pet

A Southern American boy and his dog Skip — a coming-of-age memoir.

by Peter Heller · 2012 · Post-apocalyptic / Literary

After a pandemic collapses society, pilot Hig lives at a small airfield with his dog Jasper.