Current Essentials

The books defining today’s moment in literature.

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Last Night in Brooklyn: A Novel cover image

Contemporary Fiction

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Black Voices & African American Literature

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Dystopian & Speculative Fiction

Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library) cover image

Essays & Cultural Criticism

The Joy Luck Club: A Novel (Penguin Orange Collection) cover image

Asian & Asian American Literature

The Argonauts cover image

LGBTQ+ Fiction & Memoir

Shock Value by John Waters

Cult Classics & Underground Voices

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Modern Classics