Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
Fiction - Contemporary Romance Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
For readers who enjoy:
- Intellectual and philosophical themes
- Millennial perspectives
- Contemporary fiction
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthoney Doerr
Fiction - Historical Sci-fi How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself.
For readers who enjoy:
- Multiple narratives
- Exploration of human resilience
- Environmental themes