The story of the life and death of artist Charlotte Solomon, murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz is so difficult to tell, says Foenkinos, that it can only be told in short sentences or it would be too painful. The white space in Charlotte speaks as loudly as the words.

Witness college professor Jason Fitger fall apart, hilariously, through a series of letters of recommendation that he is required to write.

A stream of consciousness narrative that consists of a single long sentence, with brief clauses that start with the phrase "the fact that" more than 19,000 times over 1000 pages. Cate Blanchett is currently working on a stage version.

You’ve always wanted to spy on your neighbors with binoculars, right? Hallberg gives you a field guide to help you identify and type the characteristics of the North American family.

52 micro memoirs. If you think the story of a life can only be told in 500 pages with 20 pages of endnotes, think again. I learned more about who Fennelly is through this slim volume than if it had been told in traditional memoir form.

A young father is left to raise a baby on his own, and he is committed to passing on his love of food to his daughter, Eva. As Eva grows, food becomes her solace, her identity, and her salvation. Each chapter of the book tells the story of a single dish and character delving into the ways food creates community and a sense of identity.

President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Through a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices—living and dead, historical and invented, Saunders tries to answer the hardest of questions: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? Also an amazing audiobook.

The last work of the late David Rakoff, known more for his acerbic essays than his fiction. This is a novel in verse whose characters carry you across decades. A read-aloud book for grown-ups. Moving and lovely. Look for it on audiobook too.

Lacking the words to describe love, Levithan writes the dictionary of a relationship, one entry at a time. A perfect valentine.

A story told entirely through messages on the workplace app Slack. What if your online chatter became your real life?

Short vignettes and line drawings take you through the love lives of the protagonist’s friends and neighbors. Not quite a graphic novel and not quite an illustrated one, Shapton creates something that is uniquely her own, yet we can still find ourselves in.