October · Fiction
The Quiet Hours
M. E. Halloran
A coastal town, a house left half-packed, and the long evenings where memory does its quiet work.
The catalogue
Every book we've argued about, kindly.
The current season and the shelf behind it. Each title was chosen by member vote and survived at least one long evening of discussion.
October · Fiction
Salt & Cedar
R. Okonkwo
Three generations of one family, told through the trees they planted and the ones they cut down.
October · Fiction
A Field Guide to Forgetting
T. Sable
An archivist begins erasing her own records — and discovers what a life looks like without its paper trail.
November · Fiction
The Cartographer's Widow
L. Fontaine
She finishes her husband's final map, and finds an island on it that no one has ever sailed to.
November · Historical
The Lighthouse Ledger
A. Brennan
A keeper's account book from 1893 becomes a murder record, one grocery line at a time.
December · Fiction
Nocturne for a River
I. Petrov
A night ferryman carries the same passengers across the same river, year after year, as the city changes around him.
December · Memoir
What the Garden Keeps
H. Lindqvist
A gardener inherits her grandmother's overgrown plot and, with it, a family history written in seed packets.
January · Essays
Marginalia
J. Okafor-Reyes
Essays on reading in the margins — of books, of cities, of other people's expectations.