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Kindred, Octavia Butler - deeply disturbing in ways that will stick with you. Read if you liked: Beloved, Stepford Wives, Get Out

Abigail, Magda Szabo - Boarding school drama intersects with WWII resistance in this deeply tender book. Read if you liked: Matilda (but for grown-ups).

The Door, Magda Szabo (what can I say, Magda Szabo’s great) - Complex relationships between women, class, forthright narrative voice. Read if you liked: My Beautiful Friend and its sequels. 

The Group, Mary McCarthy - Breezy, but serious. New York sans glamor. Read if you liked The Haunting of Hill House, Cassandra at the Wedding.

The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène Nemirovsky by her Daughter, Elisabeth Gille - absolutely fascinating, European literary collage, limits of memory/limits of the memoir. 

English, August, Upamanyu Chatterjee - Funny, immersive, irreverent. Read if you are: a directionless 20-something in need of companionship.