literary

Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel about Tony Webster, a retired Londoner who receives an unexpected bequest from the mother of a long-ago girlfriend and is forced to revisit the friendship, the breakup, and the suicide he thought he understood. A 163-page meditation on memory, documentation, and the way the stories we tell about ourselves quietly do us the favor of leaving things out.

Willa Cather's American masterpiece about Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant girl on the Nebraska prairie, told through the nostalgic memories of childhood friend Jim Burden. Luminous prose, elegiac tone, and one of literature's most enduring portraits of pioneer life and immigrant experience.

Three lonely women living in the same apartment building form an unlikely friendship through notes, chance encounters, and the slow realization that connection is worth the risk.