Literary Fiction
Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library
20 Park Street, Concord, NH 03301 W: Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library The Den by Abi Maxwell With echoes of The Scarlet Letter, this is a luminous, hypnotic story of youth, sex, and power that…
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
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…
District of Columbia Center for the Book
901 G St. NW, Washington, DC W: District of Columbia Center for the Book All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones Set in Washington, DC, Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that…
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
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
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,…
Maine Humanities Council | Home of the Harriet P. Henry Center for the Book
674 Brighton Avenue, Portland, ME 04102 W: Maine Humanities Council | Home of the Harriet P. Henry Center for the Book Beneficence: a Novel by Meredith Hall This is a radiant novel of goodness and love—both its gifts and its…
Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities
108 West Centre Street, Baltimore, MD W: Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother and singing in her church choir. Shy, quiet,…
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
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…
North Carolina Humanities | North Carolina Center for the Book
320 E. 9th Street, Suite 404, Charlotte, NC W: North Carolina Humanities | North Carolina Center for the Book Songbirds and Stray Dogs by Meagan Lucas In Songbirds and Stray Dogs, Jolene has been abandoned by her addict mother on…
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
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
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
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…