Fellow Westporter, Sybil Steinberg, contributing editor and former book review section editor for Publishers Weekly, treats Westport Library patrons to a wonderful book event a few times a year.  She recommends a long list of new books, fiction and nonfiction, and gives us a short summary of each and reasons why she loves each one.  Here is her current list!
Fiction
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Book Nation by Jen Review and More
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
The Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
Chances Are … by Richard Russo
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Henry, Himself by Stewart O’Nan
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
The Travelers by Regina Porter
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
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Nonfiction
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
The Beneficiary by Janny Scott
Five Days Gone by Laura Cumming
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