These books are brat. What does that mean, you may ask? According to pop star Charli XCX, "You’re just like that girl who is a little messy and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things sometimes. Who feels herself but maybe also has a breakdown. But kind of like, parties through it, is very honest, very blunt. A little bit volatile. Like, does dumb things. But it’s brat. You’re brat. That’s brat." (And if you want to experience the music of Brat yourself, the album is available to stream on Hoopla.)
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Bunny
by Mona Awad Invited to join a popular clique at her university, a misfit artist with a dark imagination is drawn into ritualistic activities that transform her perspectives on reality. By the award-winning author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. |
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Carrie Soto is back : a novel
by Taylor Jenkins Reid A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement at age 37 after watching a young phenom beat her long-standing record at the 1994 US Open in the new novel from the New York Time best-selling author of Malibu Rising. |
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The guest : a novel
by Emma Cline After a misstep at a dinner party makes her no longer welcome in Long Island, Alex, gifted with the ability to navigate the desires of others, sticks around, spending the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake. |
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Honey
by Isabel Banta A small-town New Jersey teen is invited to become part of a new 1990s girl group where she inadvertently comes between one of her bandmates and her superstar boy-band boyfriend, threatening her new life and career. |
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My year of rest and relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh After losing her parents, a young college graduate in New York City spends a year alienating the world under the influence of a crazy combination of drugs. By the author of Eileen. |
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Old enough : a novel
by Haley Jakobson When her best friend from childhood gets engaged, college sophomore Savannah Henry is pulled back into a history she had just barely begun to heal from while falling in love with Wes, a sweet, nonbinary classmate. |
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Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams Constantly compared to her white middle-class peers, a young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be. |
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Sugar, baby : a novel
by Celine Saintclare Moving in with Emily, a model and sugar baby, dating rich older men for money, and the other sugar babies, mixed-race 21-year-old Agnes is drawn deeper and deeper into their world of high-paid sex work where she finds herself searching for fulfillment just as desperately as she was before. |
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Under the influence : a novel
by Noelle Crooks The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistants in this compulsively readable workplace novel following a young woman who takes a job working for an enigmatic influencer and who quickly discovers that having it all and being it all comes with a price. |