Read Where the Crawdads Sing

A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.

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

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

A boy walks out of a bombed museum with a Dutch painting; 800 pages and a Pulitzer.

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

Connell and Marianne from Sligo to Trinity College; Sally Rooney.

Elena and Lila in a Naples courtyard in the 1950s; the first Neapolitan novel.

Toru, Naoko and Midori in 1960s Tokyo; the Murakami without magic that made him famous.