Idyllen · Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer · Netherlands (2025)
A poetic collection exploring the search for beauty in a rapidly changing world.
Category: Books
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Amatissime 🇮🇹 Italy
Amatissime · Giulia Caminito · Italy (2022)
Giulia Caminito’s Amatissime, published by Giulio Perrone Editore, is a hybrid work of literary essay and memoir centered on five Italian women writers: Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Paola Masino, Laudomia Bonanni, and Livia De Stefani.
The book reconstructs aspects of their lives and writing while intertwining them with Caminito’s own reading life, memories, and literary formation. Several reviews also note the presence of Rome as an important cultural and personal setting in the book.
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The Safekeep 🇳🇱 Netherlands
The Safekeep · Yael van der Wouden · Netherlands (2024)
Set in 1961 rural Netherlands, the story of Isabel, a recluse whose ordered life is disrupted when her brother’s girlfriend stays for the summer. Winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and a landmark for contemporary Dutch literature as the first Dutch-authored novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Orbital 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Orbital · Samantha Harvey · United Kingdom (2024)
Six astronauts and cosmonauts circle the Earth sixteen times in a single day aboard the International Space Station. Winner of the Booker Prize 2024, a novel without conventional plot, driven entirely by language and the view from above.
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Vaim 🇳🇴 Norway
Vaim · Jon Fosse · Norway (2025)
The first new novel from Fosse since he was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. A short, dense work set in a remote Norwegian fishing village, the first volume of a planned trilogy, told across three parts by three different narrators. One encounter reverberates across three stories and three deaths.