Among the nine titles selected by Book Marks, Yiyun Li’s *Music Against the Night* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) earned six rave reviews, with The Boston Globe’s Cory Oldweiler calling it “wonderful and bewitching” and praising Li’s command of a complex narrative.
Bonnie Garmus’s *Peck & Peck* (Scribner) received four rave and four positive reviews; The Guardian’s Claire Clark highlighted the novel’s “irrepressible humor” and its “fierce exhortation to make words count.”
Other fiction picks include Will Maclean’s *Solace House* (Grove), praised by The Irish Times for its “thoughtful, unsettling and ambitious” atmosphere, and Julie Orringer’s *Luna, Phoenix, Queen* (Knopf), which Meg Wolitzer described as “astonishing” in its portrayal of isolation.
In nonfiction, Lieke Marsman’s poetry collection *On Another Planet They Can Save Me* (Catapult) garnered four rave reviews, with Publishers Weekly noting its “cathartic and often wondrous” voice.
Shawn Gude’s biography *American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs* (Simon & Schuster) earned three rave reviews; Jacobin’s Matthew E. Stanley called it a “page‑turning delight” that challenges assumptions about freedom.
Additional nonfiction selections include Saul Justin Newman’s *Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science* (MIT Press), praised by The Guardian for its “refreshingly simple” critique of longevity research, and Paul Mason’s *Reds: A Global History of Communism* (Scribner), which Kirkus described as a “deeply researched, essential history.”