Beautyland

One of Time's Top 10 Books of 2024One of Electric Lit's Top 5 Books of 2024One of 100 Notable Books of 2024 at The New York TimesA Best Book of the Year: Boston Globe, Literary Hub, The Guardian, and KirkusA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club PickA Best Book of the Year (So Far): The New York Times Book Review, Time, Elle, Esquire, Goodreads, and WBEZ ChicagoA Must-Read: Nylon, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Review of Books, Literary Hub, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, BookRiot, The Christian Science Monitor, Our Culture, The Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia magazine"A perfect little polished garnet of a novel" -Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times "A book that I will recommend to people for the rest of my life." --Dakota Johnson, Bustle From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden re