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A NYT Best of 2019…
“Exhilarating” according to The Times Book Review editors. This family drama focuses on a high school debate star and his psychologist parents during the late 1990s, when public discourse starts to go off the rails and hateful trolls are on the rise.
An ‘Oprah Magazine’ Best of 2019…
Beloved novelist Ann Patchett “unfurls an enthralling tale of a 20th-century Hansel and Gretel and the suburban-Philadelphia manor that haunts them,” according to “O, The Oprah Magazine.” Plus, Tom Hanks narrates!
On the screen…
The latest adaptation of “Little Women” starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen has been getting rave reviews. But the March sisters have been delighting readers for over a century. They face setbacks every day, yet the novel is so full of hope and love. A real treasure of American literature.
Forbes’ 30 Under 30…
Forbes named author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 28, as one of the top 30 “young, creative and bold minds” of 2020, for the way his writing “uses dystopian, near-future settings to explore urgent issues of race, violence and capitalism.”
An ‘Oprah Magazine’ Best of 2019…
“Like New York City itself, Dennis-Benn’s sweeping second novel — about a young Jamaican mother who leaves her homeland and her 5-year-old daughter for the promised freedom of the Big Apple — swells with gritty grandeur,” says the write up in “O, The Oprah Magazine.”
Book club pick…
The final pick of 2019 for Emma Roberts’ Belletrist book club is “salt slow,” a fierce, feminist short story collection. This debut deals with the supernatural, the bizarre, and an underlying horror to reveal the snarled nature of human relationships.
Merry spooky Christmas…
This is not your typical Christmas story collection. Get into the supernatural spirit of the season with fun, inventive tales of flying dogs, trees with magical powers, a talking tinsel baby, a haunted house, and more. Plus, each story is paired with a seasonal recipe, like mulled wine, mince pies, and smoked salmon and champagne. Everything you need to make the holidays merry, spooky, and delicious.
National Book Award winner…
“Trust Exercise” won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, with judges praising author Susan Choi for “blend[ing] the intellectual rigor of post-modern technique with a story that is timely, mesmerizing, and, in the end, unsettling.” The novel upends conventional storylines in a charged exploration of deception when two students fall in love at a competitive performing arts high school in the 1980s.
New release…
Within a few tumultuous years, 10-year-old twins Bessie and Roland endure the dissolution of their family and the sudden death of their mom. But where other kids might deal with these traumas with tears and tantrums, the manifestation of the twins’ angst is a bit unusual: they catch on fire. (They’re fine, but other people, furniture, etc., are not.) As you might expect from the premise, this is an absurd and very funny book. What you might not expect is that it’s often quite heartwarming, as well.
An ‘Oprah Magazine’ Best of 2019…
“Pynchon meets the Pixies in this riotous, rocking novel set in Manhattan and D.C. in the early ’90s and the gentrifying decades that follow. … Zink’s pop culture references — and caustic social commentary — sparkle in a hipster valentine to a milieu that still shapes us,” according to the write-up in “O, The Oprah Magazine.”
New Scribd Original…
Award-winning author Peter Heller’s evocative observations of nature are on full display in “The Orchard,” our latest Scribd Original. Journey through changing times and Vermont’s Green Mountains with Frith, her mother, and an unexpected visitor.
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16 Audiobooks for Your Holiday Travel
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Our Favorite Books From 2019
Here are some of the best books from the year, according to Scribd’s editors.Curated by Scribd Editors
The Best Overlooked Novels of 2019, According to Vulture
The stories that didn’t get the time in the spotlight they deserve.Curated by Scribd Editors
6 Lovable Curmudgeons to Warm Your Heart
In honor of Olive Kitteridge being adorably crabby once more in “Olive, Again.”Curated by Scribd Editors
The New Irish Writers You Need to Know
Rising stars in Ireland are lighting up the literary world with these novels.Curated by Scribd Editors
6 ‘Genius’ Books from 2019 MacArthur Fellow Winners
Explore works by a “rebel historian,” a refugee poet, and a “disrupting” writer.Curated by Scribd Editors
Elegantly Long and Quirky Titles You Can’t Resist
The stories are just as beautiful and eloquent as their windy titles.Curated by Scribd Editors
Editors’ Picks: Fiction
Our editors’ fiction favorites continue to amaze us, year after year.
