Fiction & Literature: Reader's Advisory

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A novel about the reality-warping force of capital and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

Wisconsin Author
Perry Firekeeper-Birch becomes embroiled in a case of missing Indigenous women and a high-profile murder investigation.

Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media.

Winner of the Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war.

Wisconsin Author
A tumultuous relationship between a young woman and a recovering addict

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award
Sam and Sadie--two college friends, often in love, but never lovers--become creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

Wisconsin Author. Madison College instructor.
In the latest Bad Axe County series, Sheriff Heidi Kick struggles to prevent a radical religious sect from turning her county into the next Jonestown, all while a dark secret from her past puts her life in danger.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. Short stories of Afghan characters both in their homeland and America grappling with the ghosts of war and displacement.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. In this contemporary debut novel, Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband's infidelity and attends his twenty-year high school reunion.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her.

Wisconsin Author
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. Graduating into an American recession, Sneha moves to Milwaukee for an entry-level job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door.

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus

Wisconsin Author
Offers a kaleidoscopic, highly entertaining portrait of a Chinese American family in Haven, Wisconsin grappling with the dark undercurrents of a seemingly pleasant small town.

Wisconsin Author
Follows the aftermath of a crime in a small, close-knit community

Wisconsin Author
From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as estranged twin brothers make a journey.

Wisconsin Author
Reese's Book Club Pick
Emily is having the time of her life in the mountains of Chile with her friend when something terrible happens, something that happened before.