Modern fiction to get lost in

Matt Haig

Between life and death is a library of the lives you could have lived.

Andy Weir

A lone astronaut must save humanity — and he can't remember why.

Delia Owens

A murder, a marsh, and the girl the town called wild.

Madeline Miller

The Iliad reimagined as one of the great love stories.

Kazuo Ishiguro

An artificial friend watches, and learns what love asks of us.

Gabrielle Zevin

Two friends, thirty years, and the games that hold them together.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

A reclusive Hollywood icon finally tells the truth.

Madeline Miller

The witch of Greek myth, given her own voice.

Min Jin Lee

Four generations of a Korean family in Japan.

Sally Rooney

Two people who keep finding, and losing, each other.