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Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami An epic new novel by Haruki Murakami follows a portrait painter from Tokyo, who finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. “A tour de force of…

Transcription Kate Atkinson In 1940, 18-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. Ten years later, now a radio producer at…

21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari’s new book is a visionary investigation into today’s most urgent…

Lethal White Robert Galbraith It’s the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) – and the most epic one. Strike, together with Robin Ellacott – once his assistant, now a partner – investigate a crime witnessed by a troubled young man Billy. A twisting trail leads them through the backstreets…

Flights Olga Tokarczuk From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison…

The Outsider Stephen King Mark your calendars. On May 22, one of Stephen King’s most unsettling and compulsively readable stories will be released. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens, Terry Maitland. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland…

Adjustment Day Chuck Palahniuk Adjustment Day, the author’s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of…

Suicide of the West Jonah Goldberg With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture, Jonah Goldberg describes in his new book how the rebirth of tribalism, populism, nationalism, and identity politics is destroying American democracy. At a moment when authoritarianism, tribalism, identity politics, and cults of personality are rotting our…

The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse Alexander McCall Smith From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series comes a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set amid the turmoil of World War II. Val Eliot, a young woman working on an English farm during the war, meets Mike, a U.S. Air Force…