What To Read

Laura Zigman is a novelist, best known for Separation Anxiety and Animal Husbandry (which was made into the movie Someone Like You with Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd). In a review of her new book Small World (out January 10), Booklist wrote: "readers of authors such as Jodi Picoult, Barbara Kingsolver, or Kristin Hannah will be affected by Zigman’s skillful and sensitive chronicling of a sisterhood simultaneously affected by the past and finding a new future.”

We caught up with Laura to ask her what she's excited about reading and here's what she had to say:

Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter by John Hendrickson (Jan '23)

Can't wait for this memoir by The Atlantic editor who wrote so movingly about Biden's stuffer.

Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix (February '23).

I love her poetry, and I am really looking forward to her memoir.

The Dig by Anne Burt (March '23).

A family drama that reads like a thriller—what a debut.

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman (August '23)

Because: Alice Hoffman.

Rouge by Mona Awad (Sept '23)

The brilliantly dark new novel from the author of Bunny, a literary horror story with heart.  For now, get caught up on Mona Awad's work with Bunny—unlike anything you'll ever read, but in a good way.

The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann by Virginia Pye (October '23)

A charming historical literary novel set in a Boston publishing house. Think: "Publishers Lunch" meets The Bostonians. For now, her anthology of stories Shelf Life of Happiness is a must-read.

Laura Zigman's Small World comes out January 9.