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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to to Jojo Moyes’s After You and NOT the original book. Preview: After You, by Jojo Moyes, is the sequel to the 2009 bestseller Me Before You. It follows Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark’s struggle with grief after the death of the remarkable man who taught...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and NOT the original book. Preview: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes:...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before the War and NOT the original book. Preview: The Summer Before the War is a novel that follows the inhabitants of a small English town through the onset of World War I. Its protagonist, Beatrice Nash, is a young...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth and NOT the original book. Preview: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett is a story of two families that unfolds over the course of 50 years. At the center of the novel is a traumatic loss that profoundly affects each family...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and NOT the original book. Preview: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a work of speculative fiction that follows a runaway slave, Cora, on a grisly tour through the American South. Conveyed...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jacqueline Winspear’s Journey to Munich and NOT the original book. Preview: Journey to Munich is the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series. Set in 1938, the novel tells the story of private agent Maisie Dobbs’s dangerous...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Annie Proulx’s Barkskins and NOT the original book. Preview: Barkskins by Annie Proulx is a novel about settler colonialism in North America and the eradication of the boreal forest and its native inhabitants. The novel spans 300 years tracing...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl and NOT the original book. Preview: Vinegar Girl, a novel by Anne Tyler, is a loose retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Set in modern-day Baltimore, it follows twenty-somethings Kate and Pyotr...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and NOT the original book. Preview: Set in South Korea, The Vegetarian by Han Kang tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary woman who decides to stop eating meat. The novel—part satire, part surreal drama, part horror...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Terry McMillan’s I Almost Forgot About You and NOT the original book. Preview: I Almost Forgot About You, a novel by Terry McMillan, follows protagonist Georgia Young as she reevaluates her life between the ages of 53 and 55. An African American...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Tracy Chevalier’s At the Edge of the Orchard and NOT the original book. Preview: At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier tells the story of the Goodenough family. The year is 1838, and James and Sadie Goodenough are fighting about apple trees...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Stephanie Dray’s & et al America’s First Daughter and NOT the original book. Preview: America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie is the story of Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Based...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Anna Quindlen’s Miller’s Valley and NOT the original book. Preview: Miller’s Valley is a coming-of-age story set in a fictional town in Pennsylvania. There, Mimi Miller and her family live under the constant threat of flooding from severe rainstorms...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jennifer Close’s The Hopefuls and NOT the original book. Preview: The Hopefuls, a novel by Jennifer Close, follows a married couple, Matt and Beth Kelly, and their best friends, Jimmy and Ash Dillon, through five years of their lives. As young...