If you are looking for some great drama books to fill your days, take a look at these curated by the Goeread team.
The Sky Over Lima by Juan Gómez Bárcena
The best heartbreaker novels are the ones that sneak up on you like this one: A tragicomic love story about two amateur young male poets in Lima in the early 20th century who are desperate to get the newest book by their hero, Juan Ramón Jiménez. They pose together as a beautiful woman admirer, write him a fan letter, ask for it, and receive back … a signed copy and a letter. The resulting correspondence grows quite severe, and soon their literary hero is in love and insists on meeting their fictional character. So the young poets realize their most incredible literary creation must die, and no one can ever know it was them.
SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
You’re at the beach with a summer hangover, a little outside language, but you long for the pleasures of the narrative. These stories are for that, from a place that is best thought of as a cross between Professor Xavier’s X-Men school in Westchester and Brakebills from The Magicians. Most are a page to three pages long and hilarious. You do sort of have to be a next-level nerd to understand all of them but in the right way.
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
O’Farrell is an enormous talent, and her latest novel is her best one yet. Daniel, a New Yorker, lives in rural Ireland with his wife, Claudette, a former film star who staged her disappearance and greeted uninvited guests with a shotgun. The appearance of a woman from Daniel’s past throws their carefully constructed life into turmoil, exposing all sorts of secrets. O’Farrell’s prose sparkles. This book is a total delight.
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