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53 independently curated Amice guides, grouped by subject and mood.

53 collections

01 Brazil and the World

African Fiction Essentials

Different African voices exploring community, change, love, and history. 8 books 02 Best of Literature

Best Books of the 21st Century

Independent Amice picks from the century so far, chosen for voice, ambition, and staying power. 12 books 03 Genres

Best Thrillers and Mysteries

Clues, secrets, and unsettling questions: mysteries with distinct voices and real momentum. 12 books 04 Reader Favorites

Book Club Conversation Starters

Novels with layered characters and questions that invite more than one interpretation. 10 books 05 Best of Literature

Books About Power and Resistance

Fiction and testimony that examine control, injustice, and the ways people push back. 10 books 06 Nonfiction

Books That Change How You Think

Memoir, science, philosophy, and social analysis that offer different ways to see familiar questions. 8 books 07 Reading Paths

Books That Get You Back Into Reading

Stories with momentum, inviting worlds, and memorable voices for a return to reading. 10 books 08 Genres

Books That Will Make You Cry

Moving novels about love, grief, endurance, and the people we cannot forget. 11 books 09 Reader Favorites

Books to Recommend to a Friend

Welcoming stories and absorbing nonfiction for different reading tastes, selected by Amice editors. 10 books 10 Brazil and the World

Brazilian Literature Essentials

A starting shelf for Brazilian fiction across Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, and Paulo Coelho. 15 books 11 Brazil and the World

Brazilian Women Writers to Know

Vozes de épocas e estilos diferentes que ajudam a contar o Brasil por dentro. 9 books 12 Nonfiction

Business, Economics, and Money

Different ways to understand markets, power, work, and the stories we tell about wealth. 9 books 13 Reading Paths

Coming of Age Across Cultures

Young people finding their voice amid family expectations, social change, and difficult choices. 10 books 14 Brazil and the World

Contemporary Brazilian Authors

Brazilian voices writing about memory, class, race, family, and the lives of today. 9 books 15 Genres

Contemporary Romance

Modern love stories with humor, heartbreak, and relationships that resist easy answers. 10 books 16 Genres

Cozy Mysteries Worth Curling Up With

Clever puzzles, memorable sleuths, and communities full of secrets. 8 books 17 Genres

Dark Academia Essentials

Ambition, scholarship, and dangerous secrets inside closed worlds of learning. 8 books 18 Genres

Detective Fiction Through the Decades

From early sleuths to contemporary amateur investigators, a path through changing mystery traditions. 9 books 19 Genres

Dystopian Books That Stay With You

Imagined societies that sharpen our view of freedom, power, and survival. 10 books 20 Best of Literature

Essential Translated Literature

Stories that cross languages and borders, from intimate novels to ambitious literary worlds. 12 books 21 Reader Favorites

Family Bonds on the Page

Families can be sustaining, complicated, or both; these novels explore the ties across generations. 10 books 22 Genres

Fantasy Beyond the Quest

Inventive fantasy where memory, myth, language, or an unusual city matters as much as adventure. 8 books 23 Genres

Fantasy Worlds Worth Exploring

Mythic journeys, imagined worlds, and stories that invite a long stay. 8 books 24 Best of Literature

Fiction on War and Its Aftermath

Novels about lives reshaped by conflict, from the battlefield to the generations that follow. 10 books 25 Genres

Gothic Fiction and Literary Horror

Haunted places, uneasy families, and fear that lingers after the last page. 10 books 26 Genres

Historical Fiction Favorites

Novels that make the past vivid through people living inside its upheavals. 12 books 27 Genres

Historical Worlds to Get Lost In

Immersive historical fiction with places and periods that reward a longer stay. 10 books 28 Nonfiction

History That Reads Like a Novel

Narrative history, testimony, and reporting that turn events into human stories. 8 books 29 Brazil and the World

International Literary Discoveries

A reading route across continents and traditions, chosen for memorable storytelling. 12 books 30 Brazil and the World

Japanese Fiction Essentials

A range of Japanese fiction, from quiet observation to strange and immersive worlds. 8 books 31 Brazil and the World

Latin American Literature to Discover

Novels and stories that reshape place, memory, politics, and imagination. 10 books 32 Best of Literature

Literary Classics Worth Reading

Enduring novels and stories from several languages and eras, chosen for the conversations they still open. 10 books 33 Genres

Literary Mysteries With Depth

Puzzles and investigations that also make room for history, character, and ideas. 9 books 34 Genres

Magical Realism Essentials

Stories where wonder enters daily life and history takes on mythic force. 9 books 35 Nonfiction

Memoirs That Stay With You

First-person accounts of identity, grief, family, and reinvention. 9 books 36 Best of Literature

Modern Literary Fiction

Recent novels about identity, family, history, and the pressures that reshape ordinary lives. 10 books 37 Nonfiction

Psychology and Human Behavior

Ideas about memory, judgment, habits, and the social forces shaping behavior. 8 books 38 Awards and Current Books

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Books

Fiction honored by the Pulitzer Prize, with each winning work checked against the official record. 8 books 39 Reading Paths

Read the Book Before the Adaptation

Books with film or television adaptations, each a distinct experience on the page. 8 books 40 Awards and Current Books

Recent Award Winners

Pulitzer Prize fiction winners from 2018 to 2024, each checked against the prize’s official winner page. 8 books 41 Genres

Romantasy Worth Reading

Fantasy worlds where romance changes the stakes of the adventure. 8 books 42 Genres

Science Fiction About Society

Speculative worlds that question power, inequality, technology, and the rules we take for granted. 10 books 43 Genres

Science Fiction Essentials

Speculative futures, unfamiliar worlds, and questions about survival and humanity. 8 books 44 Reading Paths

Short Books With a Big Impact

Eight compact works in linked editions of 176 pages or fewer; page counts vary by format. 8 books 45 Reading Paths

Short Story Collections Worth Discovering

Many voices and worlds in forms you can enter one story at a time. 9 books 46 Best of Literature

Stories of Art and Obsession

Writers, paintings, music, and creative ambition shape these absorbing novels. 8 books 47 Reading Paths

Stories of Grief and Renewal

Books that sit with loss while making space for memory, connection, and what comes next. 10 books 48 Brazil and the World

Stories of Migration and Belonging

Fiction about crossing borders, inheriting more than one home, and remaking a sense of place. 9 books 49 Reading Paths

Sweeping Family Sagas

Generations of kinship, fracture, migration, and inheritance in one long view. 10 books 50 Nonfiction

True Crime and Investigative Stories

Reporting that follows evidence while keeping the people at the center. 8 books 51 Awards and Current Books

Where to Start With Nobel Literature

An entry point through books by literature laureates; the prize honors writers, not these individual titles. 10 books 52 Genres

Women Reimagining Speculative Fiction

Distinctive futures, altered histories, and uncanny possibilities imagined by women writers. 10 books 53 Best of Literature

Women Who Shaped Literature

Distinct writers who changed the possibilities of fiction across eras and languages. 10 books