Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson

Twin artists tell their story in split timelines -- one in words, one in art -- as a family secret threatens to tear them apart.

The Color Purple Alice Walker

Celie writes letters she cannot send to a God she is not sure is listening -- and slowly, through those letters, she finds her voice and her life.

Giovanni's Room James Baldwin

An American in Paris falls in love with an Italian bartender while his fiancee is away -- and his inability to accept that love destroys them both.

Beartown Fredrik Backman

A small Swedish hockey town pins its hopes on its junior team -- and then a single night shatters the community along every existing fault line.

The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne

A man born to an unmarried mother in 1945 Ireland grows up in a country that has no place for him -- and returns every seven years to discover how much has and hasn't changed.