Perfect reads for gray skies and a cup of something warm.
Reading ListsA curated list of 10 international books beyond American literature, featuring Brazilian classics, Latin American masterpieces, Russian fiction, African literature, and Japanese novels for readers who want a wider literary world.
Reading ListsA curated list of powerful dystopian, feminist, and speculative novels for readers who loved The Testaments and want more books about resistance, control, and survival.
Clarice Lispector · 1978
A posthumous work built around the dialogue between an author and the woman he creates, blurring authorship, existence, and voice.
Margaret Atwood · 1996
Inspired by a real nineteenth-century case, Alias Grace follows Grace Marks, a servant convicted in a notorious murder case, as memory, truth, and storytelling blur.
Emily Henry · 2020
Two writers with very different approaches to storytelling become neighbors for the summer and challenge each other to write outside their comfort zones.
Margaret Atwood · 1988
Elaine Risley, a painter returning to Toronto for a retrospective of her work, confronts childhood memories of friendship, cruelty, art, shame, and survival.
Clarice Lispector · 2015
A major collection gathering Clarice's short fiction across decades, from early experiments to mature stories of domestic revelation and inner shock.
Machado de Assis · 1908
Machado's final novel takes the form of a diary, observing affection, aging, diplomacy, and emotional restraint with quiet precision.
Machado de Assis · 1904
Twin brothers embody rivalry, politics, and divided futures in a novel shaped by irony, observation, and national transition.
Margaret Atwood · 1979
Set in Toronto, this novel follows three emotionally entangled adults whose relationships, losses, betrayals, and private disappointments reveal the quiet brutality of modern life.
Colleen Hoover · 2022
After years away, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where everything changed, hoping to rebuild her life and reconnect with the daughter she has barely known.
Margaret Atwood · 1972
A woman returns to a remote island in northern Quebec to search for her missing father, but the journey becomes an unsettling descent into memory, nature, nationalism, and fractured selfhood.
Margaret Atwood · 2000
A layered novel of family secrets, lost love, social decline, and stories within stories, The Blind Assassin moves between memoir, newspaper fragments, and a mysterious science-fiction tale.
Clarice Lispector · 1977
Macabéa, a poor typist from Brazil's Northeast, is narrated by a male writer who cannot escape the ethical discomfort of telling her story.
