Big Little Truths explores motherhood, family, friendship, shame, and the lies we tell ourselves and the people we love. 

'Big Little Truths' by Liane Moriarty

About: Ten years have passed since the events of Big Little Lies, and the children of Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie are now teenagers navigating the messy realities of high school. But when the principal receives a severed human finger in the mail and a mysterious stranger begins lurking around the school, old secrets resurface and new ones threaten to unravel the tight-knit community. Filled with Moriarty's trademark wit, emotional insight, and page-turning suspense, Big Little Truths explores motherhood, family, friendship, shame, and the lies we tell ourselves and the people we love.&nbsp;Release date: 25 August, 2026.

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About: Beginning in 1940s New Orleans, Meet Me in the Garden follows Odette Honoré, a young Creole woman who dreams of becoming an artist while secretly falling in love with another woman. Alongside her cousin Delphine, who is hiding a forbidden interracial romance, Odette imagines a freer future in a secluded garden that becomes their sanctuary. Spanning generations and moving from New Orleans to Los Angeles, Nina LaCour's sweeping family saga explores identity, race, queerness, love, and the complicated bonds that shape families across time.&nbsp;Release date: 4 August, 2026.

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'Meet Me in the Garden' by Nina LaCour

About: Eighteen years after fleeing his hometown with little more than a guitar and a dream, country music star Tyler Sinclair returns to Stone Mountain for a benefit concert honoring his childhood friend, Doc. But the homecoming stirs painful memories of abuse, betrayal, and friendships left behind. When violence erupts during the concert and Tyler narrowly escapes a deadly attack, long-buried secrets begin to surface, revealing the fractures beneath the town's close-knit façade. Blending literary fiction with mystery and suspense, Richard Russo delivers a gripping story about loyalty, forgiveness, and the inescapable pull of the past.&nbsp;Release date: 11 August, 2026.

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'Under the Falls' by Richard Russo

Why ‘Absolute Jafar’ by Sarnath Banerjee is our July pick

About: Brighu is getting older. Badminton has replaced judo, irritation has replaced anger, metabolism has slowed down. Yet, some things remain: the inability to take a cab, anxieties about the digital universe and panic for the future. So Brighu walks. Unceasingly, through known and unknown terrains, with the pointlessness of a detective without a case.An Indo-Pak romance withstands years of toxic nationalism between two hostile countries, only to unravel in a third, in Europe. Jafar, born of that romance, inherits a history he has no control over. As he grows up in Berlin, his father, Brighu, desperate to hold on to the fantasies of a fading home, tells him bedtime stories: of sultans and jinns, of street food and eccentric cousins, of Delhi, Calcutta and Karachi.

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Absolute Jafar by Sarnath Banerjee

About: In this groundbreaking graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel tells the story of her unusual childhood in a small Pennsylvania town, where her family lived in a funeral home—known locally as the "Fun Home." At its heart is Bechdel's complicated relationship with her brilliant, obsessive, and emotionally distant father, whose hidden sexuality casts a long shadow over their lives. Weaving together literary references, family history, and her own coming-of-age, Fun Home is an intimate, witty, and profoundly moving exploration of identity, memory, sexuality, and the secrets that shape families.

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

About: Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's unforgettable graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Through the eyes of a spirited young girl, readers witness the dramatic transformation of her country, the impact of war and political repression, and the everyday struggles of a family determined to preserve hope, humour, and individuality. As Marjane comes of age, she must navigate exile, identity, and belonging while remaining deeply connected to her homeland. Both intensely personal and profoundly political, Persepolis has become one of the defining graphic memoirs of the twenty-first century.

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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

A virtual literary hangout where we handpick one unputdownable book every month

The First House 

Why Avni Doshi’s ‘The First House’ is our September pick 

A husband announces he is leaving, that he was never happy. A woman is left behind with their two children in the house they built together, reeling at this forced recasting of the story of their marriage. Everything becomes an encounter at the grocery store, a looming cicada horde, a statue of Diana that suddenly appears in her neighbor’s yard. Or was it always there?As she wades through the aftermath of her marriage, her complicated family resurfaces. Although close to her parents, her relationship with them is strained, and she is fully estranged from her older sister—the perfect daughter—who still lives at home and always disapproved of her husband. So when did the trouble begin? And where will she go from here?When she was a child, an astrologer in India told her parents that the family would die in water. Ever since, they’ve avoided pools and lakes and the ocean; no one ever learned to swim. From the Booker finalist and beloved author of Burnt Sugar comes a brilliant story of betrayal, renunciation, and renewal, of a woman spiraling who swims to the other side and comes up for air.

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'The First House' by Avni Doshi 

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Kiran Desai in conversation with Sonam Kapoor for The Nod Book Club

Getting Kiran Desai and Sonam Kapoor in a room to talk about 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' (and then some) was pure magic. There was laughter, goosebumps, a few misty eyes—and everything in between. We couldn’t have dreamed up a better duo to kick off The Nod Book Club’s very first event.