Today in Bookish and Literary History, April 7



2014 Family Life by Akhil Sharma | IND-US | 224 | πŸ†πŸ†

2015 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen | US | 416 | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

2020 I Can't Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides | CAN | 363 | πŸ†

2020 A Song from Faraway by Deni Ellis BΓ©chard | CAN | 216 |

2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler | US | 192 | πŸ†

2022 The Red Children by Maggie Gee | UK | 304 |

2020 The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya | CAN | 248 | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

2020 How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa | Laotian-Canadian | 192 | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

2020 How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang | US | 288 | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

2025 One of You by Erin E. Adams | US | 336 |

2026 The Penguin Book of the International Short Story | 448 |

2026 The Girlie Playhouse by V. N. Alexander | US | 231 |

2026 The Professor of Eventide by Meredith Allard | US | 354 |

2026 Visitations: Poems by Julia Alvarez | S | 112 |

2026 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke | US | 391 |

2026 Like This, But Funnier by Hallie Cantor | US | 304 |

2026 The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke (Cat Clarke and V.E. Schwab) | US - UK - ZAM | 352 |

2026 The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon | CAN | 224 |

2026 Love by the Book by Jessica George | UK | 318 |

2026 The Midnight Show by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne | US | 332 |

2026 Sneak Peek for Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim | US | 37 |

2026 Transcription by Ben Lerner | US | 144 |

2026 Dog Person by Camille PagΓ‘n | US | 325 |

2026 The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer | US | 298 |

2026 American Fantasy by Emma Straub | US | 294 |

2026 Tailbone by Che Yeun | US - KOR | 250 |


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