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Join them on the proverbial porch rocker as an engrossing yarn unspools about their secrets and sorrows, traditions and trials — not to mention that skeleton in the well. $28 Best Science Fiction The Future By Naomi Alderman In this all-too-prescient dystopian novel, two women may hold the keys to the end of the world: a famous survivalist on the run from assassination and a former cult member whose apocalyptic warnings are starting to come true. January The Bandit Queens By Parini Shroff February Someone Else’s Shoes By Jojo Moyes March A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness By Jai Chakrabarti April Hang the Moon By Jeannette Walls May The Last Animal By Ramona Ausubel June The Celebrants By Steven Rowley July Holding Pattern By Jenny Xie August To Have and to Heist By Sara Desai September A Council of Dolls By Mona Susan Power October Land of Milk and Honey By C Pam Zhang best memoir A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung In this beautiful and thought-provoking memoir, the author asks the tough questions: Chung explores grief and rage in great depth as she takes a hard look at the pervasive inequality in American society and what community truly means. $30 best madcap mystery Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto When Vera Wong finds a dead man with a flash drive in his hand lying on her tea shop floor one morning, she calls the cops right away — then she grabs the thumb drive.