Novels Indie Booksellers Are Loving Right Now

[Picks from indies to add to your list.]( [View In Browser]( [Penguin Random House]( [Indie Picks]( Indie booksellers are exactly the people to talk to when you need a new book recommendation. Read on to find out which novels they can't stop talking about! [open-quote] A genre-bending novel told in three parts that explores the many themes we are facing as a society. Heartbreaking, layered...Hanya's most ambitious novel yet! —Rosa Hernandez, [Third Place Books]( [closed-quote] [To Paradise]( [To Paradise]( By Hanya Yanagihara To Paradise is a fin de siecle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot. [READ MORE ▸]( [Buy Now from IndieBound]( [Buy Now from Libro.fm]( [open-quote] Assembling a dazzling array of characters, Evison takes the reader across the USA from the time railroads were first being built to present day. This is an epic story and a grand read. —Deon Stonehouse, [Sunriver Books & Music]( [closed-quote] [Small World]( [Small World]( By Jonathan Evison Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for our times. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions. [READ MORE ▸]( [Buy Now from IndieBound]( [Buy Now from Libro.fm]( [open-quote] I just swallowed this book, and was swallowed by it in return. It is an irresistible chorus of remembrances, a lyric ode to brown girlhood. —Emma Fusco-Straub, [Books Are Magic]( [closed-quote] [Brown Girls]( [Brown Girls]( By Daphne Palasi Andreades A blazingly original debut novel about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls. It is a striking exploration of female friendship and a powerful depiction of women of color attempting to forge their place in the world today. [READ MORE ▸]( [Buy Now from IndieBound]( [Buy Now from Libro.fm]( [FIND YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Instagram]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Preferences]( | [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( Penguin Random House LLC 1745 Broadway, NY, NY 10019 ©2022 Penguin Random House LLC