Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 21

2018 An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky

Each disparate object described in this book―a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific―shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail.

  • Winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
  • Longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

2025 Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen

The award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.

2025 I Am Cleopatra by Natasha Solomons (UK)

From the internationally bestselling author of Fair Rosaline comes a captivating historical novel—a powerful retelling of the life of one of the most beguiling and misrepresented female figures in history, Cleopatra.

2025 Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce

Shirley Jackson and Nebula Award finalist author Eden Royce pens a Southern Gothic historical fantasy story of a contentious funeral in her adult fiction debut.

2025 Self Care by Russell Smith

An electric examination of women and men, sex and love, self-loathing and twenty-first century loneliness.

2025 Sisters Loved and Treasured: Stories of Unbreakable Bonds by Deborah Roberts

A celebration of sisterhood, featuring more than 50 personal stories by Viola Davis, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, Arianna Huffington, Octavia Spencer, and many more.

2025 The Deadly Book Club by Lyn Liao Butler

A virtual book club listens in horror when the screen freezes and one of their members is murdered in this twisty and delicious thriller from the author of Someone Else’s Life, perfect for fans of First Lie Wins and The Writing Retreat.

2025 The Widow by John Grisham

he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.

2025 The Women of Artemis by Hannah Lynn (UK)

This is the never-before-told story of history's most ferocious heroines: this is the rise of the Amazons.

2025 This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Díaz

an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico.

  • Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Award

2025 To Save a Life by Larry Zuckerman

Two young Jewish émigrés from Russia fight for their destiny in 1909 New York.

2025 The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl.

 

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