The seven moons of Maali Almeida

The order in which we learn about a life can change what we think happened. These novels use returns, reversals, competing recollections or literal jumps through time to make that difference felt...

These 30 novels turn particular storytelling traditions into new fiction: Korean Shim Cheong, Persian Sufi poetry, Lipan Apache animal-people stories, Métis rougarou accounts and many others. The...

People do not stop being funny when life becomes difficult. Their habits, awkward conversations and attempts to keep things going can become more revealing under pressure. These 25 novels earn...

Historical fiction offers far more than one war or one continent. These novels range from classical Athens and Pompeii to Ming China, Mughal India, East Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, with...

Treat this as a set of doors into different kinds of reading. Familiar novels sit beside translated fiction, memoir, poetry, science and stories told in pictures, chosen for a memorable voice, an...

A convincing fantasy world gives people more than striking scenery to move through. These 25 books make family obligations, religious ideas, political institutions, everyday practices or the...