The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical overthinking.

Homeland by Richard Beck

To see American life through the lens of Homeland’s sweeping argument is to understand the roots of our current condition. In its startling analysis of how the war on terror hollowed out the very idea of citizenship in the United States, Beck gives the most compelling explanation yet offered for the...

Renegade by Adam Kinzinger

Part memoir, part searing examination, Renegade offers a searing account of one of the most tumultuous events in recent American history--and the devastating consequences of letting extremism go unchecked, so that the events of January 6 may never happen again.

Held by Anne Michaels

1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures...

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family's history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives' tales...

The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, The Rich People Have Gone Away connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times--while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely.

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National Book Award

National Book Award Winner

Author Percival L. Everett is the 2024 winner of The National Book Award for Fiction for his novel James. James is a reimagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, focusing on the central character Jim. The novel delves deeply into Jim's perspective, with an emphasis on his...

Booker Prize

Booker Prize Winner

Samantha Harvey's novel Orbital, earned the 2024 Booker Prize. The book portrays six astronauts grappling with life in the isolation of space over the course of one day. Harvey described the novel as "space pastoral - a kind of nature writing about the beauty of space." It is the first Booker Prize...

SAS Book Club

Book Club Pick

The SAS Book Club is diving into the mysterious world of Dan Brown's thrilling bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. This book promises suspense, mystery and intellectual intrigue. With its intricate puzzles and historical references, The Da Vinci Code has kept readers hooked for many years and has sparked...

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

On October 10, 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her book, The Vegetarian According to the press release Kang was awarded "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." The Vegetarian also...