Read The Goldfinch

David Copperfield retold in opioid Appalachia; Kingsolver's Pulitzer.

Salinger's restless coming-of-age classic (1951).

Esther Greenwood's summer in New York and the breakdown after; Plath's only novel.

Six classics students at a Vermont college and the murder they commit; Donna Tartt's debut.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

Celie's letters to God and to her sister in 1930s Georgia; Alice Walker's Pulitzer.

A father and son push a shopping cart through a burned America; the ending is why people read it.

Swede Levov, the perfect Newark athlete, and the daughter who bombs a post office; Roth's Pulitzer.