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Curated This Week: Quiet Stories, Loud Hearts
A handpicked shelf of literary fiction and memoir our editors are championing this week - small books that pack an enormous emotional punch.
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The 2026 Reading Challenge Featured Collection
The featured books for the ongoing reading challenge for 2026.
Spotlight
Odin's Baked Goods
by Evguenly Todorov
Katabasis
by R.F. Kuang
The Amalfi Curse
by Sarah Penner
Heartwood
by Amity Gaige
Wild Reverence
by Rebecca Ross
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
by Brandon Sanderson
Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn
Plain Bad Heroines
by Emily M. Danforth
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
James
by Percival Everett
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
North Woods
by Daniel Mason
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Trust
by Hernan Diaz
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
Babel
by R.F. Kuang
Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame
by Rebecca Yarros
The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
The Wager
by David Grann
Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano
Yellowface
by R.F. Kuang
Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
The Women
by Kristin Hannah
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