The Hate U Give

Still Alice Lisa Genova

A Harvard linguistics professor is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's at fifty -- and the novel is told from inside her diminishing perspective.

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

A young girl in the Depression-era South watches her father defend a Black man falsely accused of a terrible crime.

Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner

A musician processes the death of her Korean mother through food -- and finds that cooking her mother's recipes is the closest thing to having her back.

The Great Alone Kristin Hannah

A family moves to remote Alaska for a fresh start -- but the wilderness that saves them in summer becomes something else entirely in the dark.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid

A reclusive Old Hollywood star agrees to tell her story -- and the truth is more scandalous, heartbreaking, and human than anyone expected.