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Diane Josefowicz Author Of Guardians & Saints

From Diane's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Diane's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Diane Josefowicz Why Diane loves this book

Gorgeous writing, a stunning plot, evocative scene-setting—I could not ask for more from this wonderful debut novel about social class and cutthroat competition at a women's college in the 1950s. Swift, surprising -- this fabulously creepy story had me on my toes from the first word to the last.

By Lacey N. Dunham ,

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1 author picked The Belles as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of The Adjudicator

Diane Josefowicz Author Of Guardians & Saints

From Diane's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Historian Francophile Literary truffle hunter

Diane's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Diane Josefowicz Why Diane loves this book

I'm a longtime fan of Susan Daitch, and this novel -- her fifth -- does not disappoint. The Adjudicator invites reflections on some of the most challenging and promising technologies of our time -- genetic modification, omnipresent surveillance, and artificial life. Like all of her novels, it's smart and meaty, packing a significant philosophical wallop while also delivering on character and plot. I loved it.

By Susan Daitch ,

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1 author picked The Adjudicator as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Award-winning author Susan Daitch's new novel, The Adjudicator, is a visionary cyberpunk mystery that explores the boundaries of consciousness and individual autonomy within an authoritarian state that controls the genetics of its citizens.

In a near future where the surveillance state legislates the genetic code of its citizens, babies are created in a laboratory according to a template set by parents and the corporation. It is a utopian world of perfect control, where disease has been eliminated and the human genome has reached apotheosis. Mistakes, though unlikely, still occur, and it is adjudicator Zedi Loew's job to fix them. One…


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