Amid a nationwide surge in book bans, memoirs and novels that deal with the experiences of L.G.B.T.Q. people or explore race received the most challenges.
Sally Rooney’s new novel explores the relationship between two brothers grieving the death of their father, and follows their complicated love lives with Rooney’s usual panache.
Maggie O’Farrell’s historical novel, one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2020, has just been adapted for film, making now a perfect time to revisit this story of family, grief and Shakespeare.
Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions, still feels fresh 250 years after Austen’s birth.
This off-kilter coming-of-age novel about one boy growing up in New York in the 1980s is detailed, digressive and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.