Books like The Measure
One morning everyone in the world over twenty-two wakes to find a box at the door holding a string, and the length of each string turns out to show how long its owner will live.
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Let the Great World Spin
On the day Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers, a dozen New Yorkers' lives intersect in a novel about connection in the vertical city.
This Is How It Always Is
Rosie and Penn have four boisterous sons when their fifth, Claude, starts saying he wants to wear dresses and be a girl when he grows up, and the family moves across the country to give the child a fresh start.
Culpability
When the family minivan, driving itself with seventeen-year-old Charlie behind the wheel, crashes during a trip, the Cassidy-Shaws have to decide who is to blame, while the mother, an expert on the ethics of artificial intelligence, keeps secrets of her own.
In Five Years
Dannie Kohan, a Manhattan lawyer who plans everything, gets the job and the proposal she wanted on the same day, then falls asleep and wakes up five years later in a different apartment with a different man.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Eddie, an eighty-three-year-old maintenance man at a seaside amusement park, dies trying to save a little girl from a falling cart, and wakes in an afterlife where five people from his life, some of them strangers, explain what it meant.
Contact
Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer, picks up a signal from the star Vega that turns out to carry the plans for a machine, and the world has to decide whether to build it and who should go.
The Last Romantics
In 2079 the celebrated poet Fiona Skinner, now very old, tells an audience the true story behind her most famous poem, which begins with the Pause, the years after her father's death when her mother took to her bed and four children raised themselves.
The Husband's Secret
Cecilia Fitzpatrick, a Sydney mother who runs her life with Tupperware precision, finds a letter in the attic addressed to her in her husband's handwriting, to be opened only in the event of his death, while he is still very much alive.
The Overstory
Nine Americans, among them an artist whose family has photographed the same chestnut tree for generations and a scientist who discovers that trees communicate, are drawn together by trees and into a last stand to save the old-growth forests.
The Dream Hotel
Coming home from a conference, Sara Hussein, a mother of twins, is detained at Los Angeles airport because an algorithm reading her dreams has judged that she is likely to commit a crime, and she is sent to a retention centre for observation.
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson, a labour and delivery nurse with twenty years' experience, is barred from caring for a newborn because his parents are white supremacists, and when the baby goes into distress while she is alone with him, she is charged with his death.
Dream State
In the summer of 2004 Cece Calhoun arrives at the Margolis family's lake house in Montana to marry Charlie, and finds herself spending her days with Garrett, the best friend Charlie has asked to officiate.