THE READERS' ALMANAC

Anna Quindlen's After Annie (Random, Feb.), coping with a wife and mother's death; Jami Attenberg's A Reason To See You Again (Ecco, Sept.), longtime tensions between a troubled mother and her two daughters; Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise (Random, Jul.), a family traumatized over decades by a violent kidnapping; playwright/fiction debuter Adam Rapp's Wolf at the Table (Little, Brown, Mar.), a family shattered by the neighborhood's triple homicide; multi-award-winning author Jean-Baptiste Del Amo's The Son of Man (Grove, Jul.; tr. from French by Frank Wynne), a man forcing his wife and son into wilderness isolation; Booker-longlisted Mike McCormack's This Plague of Souls (Soho, Jan.), a man fresh from prison finding his family missing; Nell Freudenberger's The Limits (Knopf, Apr.), a teenager caught between physically distant parents rebels; Raft of Stars author Andrew Graff's True North (Ecco, Jan.), a family struggling to resettle in Wisconsin's Northwoods; Cat Brushing author Jane Campbell's Interpretations of Love (Grove, Aug.), with family secrets spilling at a wedding; and Someday, Maybe author Onyi Nwabineli's Allow Me To Introduce Myself (Graydon House, May), about a woman protecting her younger sister from a controlling stepmother. See also R.O. Kwon's Exhibit (Riverhead, May), featuring an intense relationship between two women—a photographer and a ballerina; The Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry's Enlightenment (Mariner, Jun.), about the enduring and disruptive friendship between Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay; Clare Sestanovich's Ask Me Again (Knopf, Jun.), featuring middle-class Eva and upper-crust Jamie, radically redefining himself; Rainbow Rowell's Slow Dance (Morrow, Jul.), the possibility of love with a high school friend 10 years later; Lisa Ko's Memory Piece (Riverhead, Mar.), three teenage friends looking for something different; debuter Amanda Churchill's The Turtle House (Harper, Feb.), a Japanese war bride recalling a love left behind; debuter August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost (Penguin Pr., Jul.), love and friendship between two teenage boys in rural New England; Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates (Atria, Mar.), whose heroine suddenly isn't mysteriously receiving notice of how long a new relationship will last; Cameroonian-born, UK-based Musih Tedji Xaviere's These Letters End in Tears (Catapult, Mar.), forbidden love between two girls, one Christian and one Muslim; Kiley Reid's Come and Get It (Putnam, Jan.), complicatio