The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri | 
Brodeck's Report
by Philippe Claudel | 
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
by Nayomi Munaweera |
Waiting for Eden
by Elliot Ackerman | 
The Wasted Vigil
by Nadeem Aslam |
All Our Names
by Dinaw Mengestu | 
Dark at the Crossing
by Elliot Ackerman | 
The Surrendered
by Chang-Rae Lee | 
To Siberia
by Per Petterson | 
Eureka Street
by Robert McLiam Wilson |
Apeirogon
by Colum McCann |
Beautiful Exiles
by Meg Waite Clayton | 
The Blind Man's Garden
by Nadeem Aslam | 
The Light and the Dark
by Mikhail Shishkin | 
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn | 
Trail of Broken Wings
by Sejal Badani | 
Ask Him Why
by Catherine Ryan Hyde |
The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See |
The Victory Garden
by Rhys Bowen |
A Woman is No Man
by Etaf Rum |
Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. When they are conscripted into the army, their lives change in unpredictable ways, influencing the women they become and the friendship that they struggle to sustain. Yael trains marksmen and flirts with boys. Avishag stands guard, watching refugees throw themselves at barbed-wire fences. Lea, posted at a checkpoint, imagines the stories behind the familiar faces that pass by her day after day. They gossip about boys and whisper of an ever more violent world just beyond view. They drill, constantly, for a moment that may never come. They live inside that single, intense second just before danger erupts.