Written in a unique second-person point of view, this novel follows Jamie Conway, a young fact checker at a magazine who drifts through the 1980s Manhattan nightlife while his life falls apart.
Carolin Palmer’s debut novel, where the main character is a rather unlikeable twenty-something young woman, Clo, trying to build a stable life in the final years of the glossy magazine era.
The story is centered around Rashid’s Opium House, where addicts gather to smoke, talk, and drift. Tracing the lives of Dimple, a trans woman who rises within the drug world, Rashid the caretaker, and other regulars whose pasts surface in fragments.
In this satire by Mikhail Bulgakov, Satan appears in 1930s Stalinist Moscow in the form of a Professor named Woland, testing the people of the city and killing those whose actions are irredeemable.
Over the course of a day in Dublin, the novel follows Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising canvasser, Stephen Dedalus, a young teacher and writer who argues about art, faith, and identity.
It follows a cleanliness-obsessed Palestinian heiress working as a private-school teacher in New York City. Her job places her among wealthy families whose lives feel close and unreachable, and she would do anything to be a part of that circle.
In Delhi, Mr. and Mrs. Jha move from a modest neighborhood to an upscale colony after sudden wealth. The city’s class codes drive the comedy and conflict, shaping how love and ambition end up at crossroads when public image and money is involved.
This Urban fic classic follows Sherman McCoy, a delusional bond trader in New York, whose life spirals down after a hit-and-run sparks media frenzy, political difficulties, and his social downfall.