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Ocean Vuong’s extraordinary debut novel — a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read, weaving Vietnam, the immigrant experience, queer identity, and the search for language adequate to love. Prose of rare beauty from one of literature’s most essential new voices.

Khaled Hosseini’s devastating and triumphant second novel follows two Afghan women whose lives intertwine across three decades of war. A fierce, emotionally intelligent portrait of survival, resilience, and the bonds that sustain us when everything else is taken away.

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Faber) — Margaret and Ivan are siblings reconciling after their father’s death, navigating an unexpected closeness that neither has words for. Rooney’s fourth novel is her most formally ambitious and emotionally confrontational — approaching a taboo subject with the same clear-eyed intelligence she brings to everything, refusing both sensationalism and comfortable elision. Her most mature and most challenging novel. Published by Faber & Faber.

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — Klara is an Artificial Friend who observes the world with absolute clarity and absolute limitation simultaneously, chosen by a teenager whose health is declining and who needs her in ways she must learn to understand. Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize lecture novel — narrated by a consciousness both less and more than human — a novel of quiet devastation from one of the greatest living writers. Published by Faber & Faber.

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — Stevens, a perfect butler, takes a rare motoring holiday and is finally alone with the question he has spent his life not asking: whether the life he gave to perfect service was a life worth giving. Booker Prize winner 1989 — a masterpiece of first-person narration in which every sentence means more than it says, and Stevens’s careful prose becomes the vehicle for a tragedy of unacknowledged feeling and unrecoverable time. Published by Faber & Faber.