The Book of Records

Time Must-Read Book of the Year • One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year • One of Bookbub's Best Literary Fiction Books of 2025 • An Esquire and Boston Globe Best Book of 2025 • A Vulture Best Book of the Year So Far • A New York Public Library Best Book of 2025 • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Summer • One of People's Best Books of May • A Los Angeles Times and A. V. Club Top 10 Book to Read in May "A beautiful fable about migration, memory, and the struggle to recognize our common humanity." ―Barack Obama A novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door. Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide.