Samantha Harvey has been awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for her fifth novel, “Orbital.” At a slim 144 pages, it details the day-to-day life on board an international space station. It’s been described as “ravishingly beautiful” by The New York Times and has garnered similarly glowing praise from almost all literary critics who come across it.

A football-loving, Syrian American Muslim boy must find the courage to confront feelings of being stuck in between the worlds of home, school, and wider society.

This book by Kenneth M. Cadow is a heartfelt novel about the challenges of youth and the value of community.

In "My Friends," a Libyan exile contemplates his time away from his troubled homeland.

Kristin Hannah’s latest novel recounts a young woman’s experience as a nurse in Vietnam, which casts a deep shadow over her life.

This novel by Rufi Thorpe tells the story of acollege freshman who decided to have her English professor’s baby.

Set in West Virginia during and after the Civil War, Jayne Anne Phillips’ book takes as given that slavery was evil and the war a necessity, focusing instead on lives torn apart by the conflict and on the period’s surprisingly enlightened approach toward care of the mentally ill.

This novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers dives into several seminal relationships in which lifelong friends and lovers struggle movingly to weather the challenges of divergent priorities.