Love & Other Thoughts

The longlist for the Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary awards, was announced this week, and we were excited to see some of our favorite books from this past year on the list! In addition to SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid and HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD by C Pam Zhang, we highly recommend the lesser-known LOVE AND OTHER THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS by Sophie Ward. The novel is made up of ten interconnected vignettes centered around Rachel and Eliza, a couple trying to get pregnant. The narrators of each story range from a boy who once slept with Rachel’s mother to an ant that crawled behind Eliza’s eye. It’s a satisfying, beautiful read that grapples with Big Ideas without feeling too heady.