True Crime
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote4.6
328 reviewsThe reporting of a Kansas murder, written with the pacing and interiority of a novel and the discipline of journalism.
Contemporary Fiction
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler4.4
397 reviews326 pages · Alfred A. Knopf · 1982 · ISBN 978-0-449-91159-1A mother, three grown children, and a family meal that has never once been finished together.
Synopsis
Pearl Tull raises three children alone and each of them remembers a different childhood. Tyler moves between their versions with quiet precision until the family becomes recognisable to the reader long before it becomes recognisable to itself.
Nothing detonates. Everything accumulates. It is our staple selection for modern family dynamics.
Editorial note
The novel our members hand to anyone who says family fiction is small. Ordinary life, rendered with almost unbearable accuracy.
Quotes readers kept
“It seems to me that once you have children, you are never really the main character in your own life again.”
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Mei L.
February 2026
“Funny until it was not”
I laughed on the train and then had to put the book down in public. Wanjiru and her mother are the truest pair of people I have met in fiction this year.
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