FP Staff List: What We're Reading This Week

Scroll to see what the FP staff has been reading this week!

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A Stranger in Olondria

by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)

"Let the world take note of this dazzling and accomplished fantasy. Sofia Samatar's debut novel is both exhilarating epic adventure and loving invocation of what it means to live through story, poetry, language. She writes like the heir of Ursula K. Le Guin and Gene Wolfe."—Kelly Link

—Rachel

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The Power

by Naomi Alderman (Back Bay Books)

"Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything."—Margaret Atwood

—Lauren

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Belly of the Beast

by Da'Shaun Harrison (North Atlantic Books)

“This modern classic relishes in collapsing conventional and clichéd orthodoxies. As formative as Harrison’s proclamations are, it is Harrison’s pacing that gives the book the lingering feeling of the most sensual whisper.”—Kiese Laymon

—Ozichi

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Native Speaker

by Chang-Rae Lee (Riverhead)

"One of the year's most provocative and deeply felt first novels...a searing portrait of the immigrant experience."—Vanity Fair

—Isla

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Wild Milk

by Sabrina Orah Mark (Dorothy)

"Totally spellbinding and mesmerizing."—Boston Globe

—Lanesha

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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics)

"The scariest book I've ever read."—Carmen Maria Machado

—Lucia

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Pleasure Activism

by adrienne maree brown (AK Press)

Pleasure Activism is an invitation to know ourselves and be in conversation with the desire of our lustful imaginations... It makes our personal liberation irresistible.”—Jasmine Burnett

Jisu

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Empire of the Senseless

by Kathy Acker (Grove Atlantic)

"[A] complex, high-speed, intensely intellectual, intensely offensive, post-modernist, pained and painful, punk, fantastic, fictional construct and elaborate tattoo of a novel."—New York Times

—Nick

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Ten Myths About Israel

by Ilan Pappe (Verso)

"Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian."—John Pilger

—Sophie

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