What is Our Intern Excited to Read?

By Jamie Huang | April 27 2026 | Adult

Although our intern, Jamie, has already left, here are some of the books she’s most excited to read in the coming months. As a young consumer of books, Jamie selectively chooses which books are worth the physical purchase. Featuring decorated authors like Matt Haig, Han Kang, and Emily St. John Mandel, she’s certain these picks are guaranteed not to disappoint!

9798217155064
A magnetic, stirring debut novel about an adrift young woman whose growing fascination with her boyfriend’s cat ushers her into the possibilities of her own life—but not without first threatening to unravel it.
$29.00 US
Aug 04, 2026
Hardcover
304 Pages
Random House
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9798217176892
From the author of Natural Beauty: Set in the fiercely competitive art world, a novel about an obsessive friendship upended by a cutting-edge technology purported to enhance empathy and connection
$18.00 US
May 13, 2025
Paperback
304 Pages
Dutton
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Export Edition

9798217199044

A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest.

$21.00 US
Sep 08, 2026
Paperback
352 Pages
Random House
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Export Edition

9780593320648
The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.“A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies.” —Daniel Mason, author of North Woods
$32.00 US
Jun 02, 2026
Hardcover
400 Pages
Knopf
US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN)

9798217063284
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were.For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.Before he gave it all away.He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . .A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.
$21.00 US
May 26, 2026
Paperback
304 Pages
Viking
US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN)
Export Edition

9780593595466

Han Kang’s most revelatory book since The Vegetarian—and her first published in English since winning the Nobel Prize—We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history.

$17.00 US
Mar 24, 2026
Paperback
272 Pages
Hogarth
US,CAN,OpnMkt(no EU)