The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

Libby is adopted and on her 25th birthday she inherits a large house in Chelsea that has been held in trust. Her two siblings disappeared 25 years earlier after her birth parents and an unknown man were found dead in what appeared to be a suicide pact. They never returned to claim the house on their birthdays and so it remained empty and waiting for Libby. Told through three narrators, nothing is as it seems, and the house, worth millions, is about to reveal its secrets.

Religion As We Know It by Jack Miles

For much of ancient history, religious belief and practice were so intertwined with civilization as a whole (whether Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Indian, Chinese or other) that it doesn't appear that people thought of "religion" as a separate or separable human activity. Eventually, that all changed, at least in some parts of the world. How did it happen that humans began to categorize religion as a particular kind of activity, to the point where the comparative study of religion evolved as its own field of study? Jack Miles offers a thoughtful, elegant, convincing explanation.

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

Whenever I read a graphic novel by Tillie Walden, I feel like I'm floating in a dream. Her latest book is no different, as we follow its two main characters on a road trip through a surreal version of the American West, with a disorientingly shifting landscape that is tied up with their emotional states. It will leave you thinking "What just happened?" in a very good way.