Have you signed up for the Ultimate Summer Challenge? It's not too late to read and win prizes. Here are ten suggestions to help round out your summer.
Bullwinkel's debut novel takes place in the confines of a boxing ring in Reno, Nevada. Over two days of championship matches, her protagonists, eight teenage girls, fight each other for the title "Best in the World". A fierce and intimate…
A smart, provocative and personal interrogation of how we experience art in the age of cancel culture and the link between genius and monstrosity. Dederer explores the audience's relationship with artists from Picasso, Plath and Polanski…
In this true-life sea yarn, Grann has created a cast of indelible characters from the dustiest of sources, and a page-turning narrative of how shipwrecked survivors told their competing accounts of the most sensational true crime story of…
Using interview transcripts, news clippings, texts, WhatsApp messages, emails, and pages from a screenplay, Hallett draws us into the world of Amanda Bailey, a true crime writer reviving a long-buried case about a cult and stirring up more…
Filmmaker Werner Herzog reimagines the life of Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda who, at the end of 1944, was given orders to defend Lubang Island in the Philippines until the Imperial Army's return, which he did for 29 years. A spare, moving,…
A lonely, loveable, queer mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign, spending their days protecting the welfare of a nearby encampment, observing obnoxious hikers, and grappling with the complexities of…
Tolly Driver, narrating from 17 years in the future, recounts the summer of 1989 in Lamesa, Texas, when he was a good kid with a deadly peanut allergy and a cruel prank at a house party cursed him to kill for revenge. Jones lays down new…
Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in a closet, but every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and it sets off a seismic chain of…
In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shore of a remote Welsh island and, for 18-year-old Manod, it feels like a portent of doom. When two researchers arrive, she's enraptured by the possibilities they represent, but as she becomes…
A young Australian woman arrives at an elite English girls' boarding school to take up the antiquated role of matron. She's unsure of her role, her accent, and her body, until she meets Mrs. S, the headmaster's wife. Irresistibly drawn to…
