October 2026 · Pick 125
Hungered
A twelve-year-old girl navigates poverty and family uncertainty while living in her mother’s car.
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June 2026 · Pick 124
Little Wonder
A mother and her musically gifted son are separated in Beijing, beginning a long struggle to reunite.
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May 2026 · Pick 123
John of John
A young man’s return to the Isle of Harris confronts faith, sexuality and family authority.
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April 2026 · Pick 122
Go Gentle
An unexpected romance unsettles a philosopher’s carefully ordered life.
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February 2026 · Pick 121
Kin
Two childhood friends take different paths through education, family absence and the search for belonging.
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November 2025 · Pick 120
Some Bright Nowhere
A dying woman’s choice of caregiver challenges the assumptions of a long marriage.
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October 2025 · Pick 119
A Guardian and a Thief
Stolen immigration documents threaten a family’s escape from a near-future Kolkata shaped by scarcity and crisis.
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September 2025 · Pick 118
All the Way to the River
Elizabeth Gilbert writes about love, addiction and the complicated bonds of her relationship with Rayya Elias.
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August 2025 · Pick 117
Bridge of Sighs
A man’s account of his life in an upstate New York town opens onto friendship, marriage and missed possibilities.
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July 2025 · Pick 116
Culpability
An accident involving a family’s autonomous vehicle raises questions about responsibility, secrecy and artificial intelligence.
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June 2025 · Pick 115
The River Is Waiting
A father imprisoned after a family tragedy searches for a way towards accountability and reconciliation.
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May 2025 · Pick 114
The Emperor of Gladness
A troubled young man and an elderly widow form an unexpected bond in a struggling Connecticut town.
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April 2025 · Pick 113
Matriarch
Tina Knowles recounts family, work and motherhood across generations.
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March 2025 · Pick 112
The Tell
Amy Griffin explores the recovery of childhood memories and their effect on her adult life.
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February 2025 · Pick 111
Dream State
A Montana wedding begins a decades-long story of friendship, marriage and consequences.
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January 2025 · Pick 110
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle examines ego, awareness and the possibility of living with greater attention to the present.
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December 2024 · Pick 109
Small Things Like These
An Irish coal merchant's encounter with a convent forces him to choose between social acceptance and an act of conscience.
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October 2024 · Pick 108
From Here to the Great Unknown
Lisa Marie Presley’s recollections are woven together with her daughter Riley Keough’s perspective on their family.
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September 2024 · Pick 107
Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout returns to her interconnected Maine characters through conversations, friendship and a possible murder.
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June 2024 · Pick 106
Familiaris
A multigenerational Wisconsin family story explores the origins of the dog-breeding world of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
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May 2024 · Pick 105
Long Island
An unexpected visitor disrupts Eilis Lacey’s life on Long Island and reopens her connections to Ireland.
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February 2024 · Pick 104
The Many Lives of Mama Love
Lara Love Hardin recounts addiction, imprisonment and the difficult work of rebuilding her life.
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October 2023 · Pick 103
Let Us Descend
An enslaved young woman’s journey south is accompanied by ancestral memory and spiritual encounters.
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September 2023 · Pick 102
Wellness
A Chicago couple’s marriage tests the stories they tell about love, self-improvement and the lives they hoped to build.
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May 2023 · Pick 101
The Covenant of Water
A family's history in Kerala unfolds across generations under the shadow of a recurring vulnerability to water.
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March 2023 · Pick 100
Hello Beautiful
Four close sisters face a rupture when one sister’s marriage brings an outsider’s painful history into their family.
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February 2023 · Pick 99
Bittersweet
Susan Cain considers how sadness and longing shape creativity, connection and the way people experience the world.
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October 2022 · Pick 98
Demon Copperhead
A boy's coming of age in Appalachia recasts David Copperfield amid poverty, foster care and the opioid crisis.
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September 2022 · Pick 97
That Bird Has My Wings
Jarvis Jay Masters reflects on childhood, violence and the experiences that led to his life in prison.
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June 2022 · Pick 96
Nightcrawling
A young woman struggling to support her family in Oakland becomes entangled in a police abuse scandal.
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April 2022 · Pick 95
Finding Me
Viola Davis traces her path from a childhood marked by poverty to a career on stage and screen.
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February 2022 · Pick 94
The Way of Integrity
Martha Beck proposes a practice of aligning everyday decisions with personal truth and purpose.
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September 2021 · Pick 93
Bewilderment
An astrobiologist raising his young son alone confronts grief, emotional vulnerability and an increasingly threatened natural world.
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August 2021 · Pick 92
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
A young woman’s search through her family’s past opens into a multigenerational history of the American South.
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June 2021 · Pick 91
The Sweetness of Water
The lives of two formerly enslaved brothers intersect with a grieving Georgia family after the Civil War.
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March 2021 · Pick 90
Gilead
An elderly minister's letter to his young son reflects on family history, belief and the uncertain responsibilities of grace.
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March 2021 · Pick 89
Home
Jack Boughton’s return to Gilead unsettles his family and revives questions of forgiveness, belonging and grace.
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March 2021 · Pick 88
Lila
A woman shaped by poverty and wandering builds an unexpected life with an ageing minister in Gilead.
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March 2021 · Pick 87
Jack
An interracial romance challenges social boundaries and religious convictions in mid-century America.
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November 2020 · Pick 86
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson examines inherited hierarchies through comparisons between the United States, India and Nazi Germany.
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June 2020 · Pick 85
Deacon King Kong
A shooting in a Brooklyn housing project sets off a story of neighbourhood ties, secrets and intersecting lives.
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April 2020 · Pick 84
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker investigates a family affected by schizophrenia and the wider search to understand the illness.
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January 2020 · Pick 83
American Dirt
A mother and son flee cartel violence in Mexico and attempt the dangerous journey towards the United States.
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November 2019 · Pick 82
Olive, Again
Olive Kitteridge moves through later life as her story intersects with those of other residents of a Maine town.
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September 2019 · Pick 81
The Water Dancer
An enslaved young man discovers an extraordinary power tied to memory, loss and the struggle for freedom.
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November 2018 · Pick 80
Becoming
Michelle Obama reflects on family, education, work and her years in the White House.
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June 2018 · Pick 79
The Sun Does Shine
Anthony Ray Hinton recounts decades on death row before his exoneration and considers hope under extreme confinement.
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February 2018 · Pick 78
An American Marriage
A wrongful conviction separates a newly married couple, exposing the pressures that incarceration places on love and competing visions of a future.
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June 2017 · Pick 77
Behold the Dreamers
A Cameroonian immigrant couple’s ambitions become entangled with a wealthy New York household during the financial crisis.
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September 2016 · Pick 76
Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle examines the collapse of her marriage and the process of rebuilding a sense of self.
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August 2016 · Pick 75
The Underground Railroad
An enslaved woman's escape takes her through an alternate America where the Underground Railroad is imagined as an actual railway.
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February 2015 · Pick 74
Ruby
A woman’s return to her East Texas hometown reawakens the violence of the past and an old connection.
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January 2014 · Pick 73
The Invention of Wings
The intertwined lives of an enslaved girl and a Charleston family’s daughter expose the constraints of race and gender.
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December 2012 · Pick 72
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
A mother and her children’s stories trace the costs and possibilities of the Great Migration across generations.
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June 2012 · Pick 71
Wild
Cheryl Strayed’s solo walk along the Pacific Crest Trail becomes a reckoning with grief and a fractured life.
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December 2010 · Pick 70
A Tale of Two Cities
Lives in London and revolutionary Paris become entangled in a story of injustice, devotion and the possibility of sacrifice.
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December 2010 · Pick 69
Great Expectations
An unexpected fortune encourages Pip to reinvent himself, testing his assumptions about gentility, loyalty and the sources of kindness.
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September 2010 · Pick 68
Freedom
A Midwestern family’s private conflicts unfold against changing American politics, environmental concerns and expectations of personal freedom.
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September 2009 · Pick 67
Say You're One of Them
Five stories approach poverty, conflict and religious violence through the experiences of children in different African countries.
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September 2008 · Pick 66
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
A boy raised among specially bred dogs confronts family betrayal after his father’s death.
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January 2008 · Pick 65
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle examines ego, awareness and the possibility of living with greater attention to the present.
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November 2007 · Pick 64
The Pillars of the Earth
The building of a medieval English cathedral connects the ambitions and struggles of workers, clergy and powerful families.
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October 2007 · Pick 63
Love in the Time of Cholera
An enduring attachment unfolds across decades, exploring how romantic ideals coexist with ageing and the practical arrangements of life.
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June 2007 · Pick 62
Middlesex
A narrator traces a Greek American family's history across generations while examining the inheritance and discovery of an intersex identity.
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March 2007 · Pick 61
The Road
A father and son travel through a devastated landscape, trying to preserve both their lives and a sense of moral responsibility.
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January 2007 · Pick 60
The Measure of a Man
Sidney Poitier reflects on the values and experiences that shaped his life as an actor, husband and father.
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January 2006 · Pick 59
Night
Elie Wiesel’s account of the Holocaust bears witness to persecution, imprisonment and the destruction of his family’s world.
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September 2005 · Pick 58
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey’s account of addiction and rehabilitation became controversial after fabricated elements were exposed.
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June 2005 · Pick 57
Light in August
Intersecting Southern lives expose the consequences of racial categorisation, religious certainty and social exclusion.
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June 2005 · Pick 56
The Sound and the Fury
The decline of a Southern family emerges through fractured perspectives, revealing how memory and loss disrupt chronological storytelling.
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June 2005 · Pick 55
As I Lay Dying
A family's difficult journey to bury its matriarch emerges through competing voices, revealing grief, obsession and conflicting private purposes.
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September 2004 · Pick 54
The Good Earth
A Chinese farmer’s changing fortunes reveal the bonds between family, wealth and the land.
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May 2004 · Pick 53
Anna Karenina
An aristocratic woman's love affair unfolds alongside a landowner's search for meaning, exposing the contradictions of Russian society.
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April 2004 · Pick 52
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Lonely inhabitants of a Georgia mill town invest their hopes in a man whose own inner life they scarcely understand.
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January 2004 · Pick 51
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The fortunes of the Buendía family and the town of Macondo unfold through generations of desire, upheaval and repetition.
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September 2003 · Pick 50
Cry, the Beloved Country
A South African pastor searches for his son as personal loss exposes the fractures of a racially divided society.
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June 2003 · Pick 49
East of Eden
The Trask and Hamilton families struggle with inheritance, rivalry and moral choice in California’s Salinas Valley.
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April 2002 · Pick 48
Sula
Two women’s friendship and its rupture challenge the expectations of their Ohio community.
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January 2002 · Pick 47
Fall on Your Knees
The secrets of a Cape Breton family unfold across generations in a story of ambition, violence and survival.
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November 2001 · Pick 46
A Fine Balance
Four lives converge in an Indian city during the Emergency, where friendship offers fragile protection against political and social violence.
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September 2001 · Pick 45
The Corrections
An ageing Midwestern couple's hopes for a family reunion reveal the distinct anxieties and compromised lives of their adult children.
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June 2001 · Pick 44
Cane River
Lalita Tademy draws on family history to follow four generations of African American women in Louisiana.
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May 2001 · Pick 43
Stolen Lives
Malika Oufkir recounts her family’s years of imprisonment following her father’s involvement in an attempted Moroccan coup.
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March 2001 · Pick 42
Icy Sparks
A girl growing up in rural Kentucky struggles with isolation and a condition her community does not understand.
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January 2001 · Pick 41
We Were the Mulvaneys
A close family begins to unravel after an act of sexual violence and the failures that follow it.
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November 2000 · Pick 40
House of Sand and Fog
A disputed California house becomes the focus of competing hopes, financial desperation and escalating conflict.
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September 2000 · Pick 39
Drowning Ruth
A nurse’s return to her Wisconsin family draws her into a story of loss, buried secrets and a child’s memories.
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August 2000 · Pick 38
Open House
After her husband leaves, a woman takes in boarders and begins to rebuild her household and sense of possibility.
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June 2000 · Pick 37
The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary’s wife and daughters recount their family’s experience in the Congo and the consequences of his convictions.
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May 2000 · Pick 36
While I Was Gone
An encounter with a figure from her youth threatens the settled life of a woman concealing an earlier identity.
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April 2000 · Pick 35
The Bluest Eye
A Black girl's longing for blue eyes exposes the damage inflicted by racialised ideals of beauty and belonging.
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March 2000 · Pick 34
Back Roads
A young man caring for his sisters in rural Pennsylvania struggles under the weight of family trauma.
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February 2000 · Pick 33
Daughter of Fortune
A young Chilean woman’s search for her lover carries her into the upheaval of the California Gold Rush.
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January 2000 · Pick 32
Gap Creek
A young Appalachian couple face poverty, hard work and repeated setbacks at the beginning of their marriage.
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December 1999 · Pick 31
A Map of the World
A child’s death and an accusation against a school nurse transform the lives of two neighbouring farm families.
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November 1999 · Pick 30
Vinegar Hill
A woman living with her husband’s restrictive family begins to question the life and beliefs expected of her.
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October 1999 · Pick 29
River, Cross My Heart
A child’s drowning reshapes a Black family’s life in 1920s Washington, DC.
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September 1999 · Pick 28
Tara Road
A house exchange between women in Ireland and America opens space to reassess marriage, friendship and independence.
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June 1999 · Pick 27
Mother of Pearl
Intertwined lives in a Mississippi town explore identity, kinship and the different forms a family can take.
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May 1999 · Pick 26
White Oleander
A girl moves through a series of foster homes after her mother is imprisoned, struggling to define herself beyond that bond.
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March 1999 · Pick 25
The Pilot's Wife
After her pilot husband’s death, a woman discovers that the marriage she knew contained another life.
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February 1999 · Pick 24
The Reader
A man revisits his youthful relationship with an older woman whose wartime past later emerges in court.
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January 1999 · Pick 23
Jewel
A mother’s determination to secure a future for her daughter shapes a family’s life in mid-century America.
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December 1998 · Pick 22
Where the Heart Is
A pregnant teenager abandoned at an Oklahoma shop finds support in an unexpected community.
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October 1998 · Pick 21
Midwives
A home birth that ends in a mother’s death places a midwife and her family at the centre of a criminal trial.
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September 1998 · Pick 20
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
A woman returning to her Michigan hometown finds new connections while confronting illness and the past.
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June 1998 · Pick 19
I Know This Much Is True
A man’s responsibility for his twin brother leads into an exploration of family history, identity and inherited pain.
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May 1998 · Pick 18
Breath, Eyes, Memory
A girl’s move from Haiti to New York exposes family secrets and the lasting effects of trauma across generations.
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April 1998 · Pick 17
Black and Blue
A woman escapes an abusive marriage with her son and attempts to build a life under a new identity.
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March 1998 · Pick 16
Here on Earth
A return to her hometown draws a woman back towards a consuming relationship from her past.
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January 1998 · Pick 15
Paradise
Tensions between an insular Oklahoma town and a nearby community of women culminate in violence.
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December 1997 · Pick 14
The Best Way to Play
Little Bill and his friends discover the possibilities of imaginative play beyond a coveted video game.
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December 1997 · Pick 13
The Treasure Hunt
A rainy day leads Little Bill to discover a treasure of his own: storytelling.
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December 1997 · Pick 12
The Meanest Thing to Say
Little Bill finds a different response when a new classmate encourages a contest in cruelty.
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October 1997 · Pick 11
A Virtuous Woman
The remembered voices of a North Carolina couple reveal an unlikely marriage built on endurance and attachment.
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October 1997 · Pick 10
Ellen Foster
An abused young girl searches for safety and a family she can trust.
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September 1997 · Pick 9
A Lesson Before Dying
A teacher visits a condemned young man in Louisiana, where their encounters become a struggle for dignity.
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June 1997 · Pick 7
Songs in Ordinary Time
A struggling mother’s involvement with a con man threatens an already vulnerable family in a New England town.
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May 1997 · Pick 8
The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou recounts years of artistic work, motherhood and involvement in the civil rights movement.
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April 1997 · Pick 6
The Rapture of Canaan
A teenager’s pregnancy challenges the authority and beliefs of the strict religious community in which she lives.
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February 1997 · Pick 5
Stones from the River
A woman’s life in a German town exposes private secrets and the moral compromises of the Nazi era.
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December 1996 · Pick 4
She's Come Undone
Dolores Price’s life follows a difficult path through trauma, family loss and the search for connection.
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November 1996 · Pick 3
The Book of Ruth
A woman revisits the poverty, family tensions and violence that shaped her life in a small Illinois town.
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October 1996 · Pick 2
Song of Solomon
A young man's investigation of his family history becomes a journey through inheritance, identity and the meanings of freedom.
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September 1996 · Pick 1
The Deep End of the Ocean
A young child’s disappearance and unexpected return years later test a family’s understanding of home and belonging.
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