Literary Fiction

Connecticut Center for the Book
R1R2022

Connecticut Center for the Book

100 Riverview Center, Suite 290, Middletown, CT W: Connecticut Center for the Book Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel With her trademark humor, pitch-perfect voice, and sly perspective on the human heart, Amy Poeppel crafts a love letter to modern family…
Delaware Center for the Book
R1R2022

Delaware Center for the Book

121 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd North, Dover, DE W: Delaware Center for the Book A Little Hope by Ethan Joella A Little Hope explores the intertwining lives of a dozen neighbors as they confront everyday desires and fears: a…
Empire State Center for the Book
R1R2022

Empire State Center for the Book

New York Library Association, 6021 State Farm Road, Guilderland, NY W: Empire State Center for the Book Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s…
Florida Humanities Center for the Book
R1R2022

Florida Humanities Center for the Book

599 2nd Street S, St. Petersburg, FL W: Florida Humanities Center for the Book Florida by Lauren Groff A finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies—in Lauren Groff’s Florida,…
Georgia Center for the Book
R1R2022

Georgia Center for the Book

Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA W: Georgia Center for the Book Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity,…
Massachusetts Center for the Book
R1R2022

Massachusetts Center for the Book

17 New South Street, Sullivan 302, Northampton, MA W: Massachusetts Center for the Book Yonder: A Novel by Jabari Asim In a beautiful, powerful, and elegiac novel that examines intimacy and longing in the quarters, Jabari Asim asks the vital…
New Jersey Center for the Book
R1R2022

New Jersey Center for the Book

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 33 Knightsbridge Road, 2nd Floor, East Wing, Piscataway, New Jersey W: New Jersey Center for the Book Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri Pulitzer Prize winning author Lahiri’s first book written in Italian and translated…
Pennsylvania Center for the Book
R1R2022

Pennsylvania Center for the Book

502 Paterno Library, University Park, PA W: Pennsylvania Center for the Book Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon A made-into-a-movie satirical classic, Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon ventures into the brooding hijinks of a flawed English professor and his protégé who…
Rhode Island Center for the Book
R1R2022

Rhode Island Center for the Book

Pell Center, Salve Regina University, 100 Ochre Point Avenue, RI 02840 W: Rhode Island Center for the Book Zorrie by Laird Hunt From prize-winning, acclaimed author Laird Hunt, a poignant novel about a woman searching for her place in the…
South Carolina Center for the Book
R1R2022

South Carolina Center for the Book

South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29201FL W: South Carolina Center for the Book You Made Me Love you by John Edgar Wideman Comprised of thirty-five stories drawn from past collections (American Histories, Briefs, God’s Gym, All Stories Are True, Fever,…
Virginia Center for the Book
R1R2022

Virginia Center for the Book

946 Grady Avenue, Suite 100, Charlottesville, VA W: Virginia Center for the Book My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor…