Ann Patchett

Kin by Tiare Jones.

Mm-hmm.

Land by Maggie O'Farrell, the Emily St.

John Mandel.

The book that is, for me, the big winner of the year is Eun Lee's Music Against the Night, which is coming out in October.

And if you want to make sure that you get that in your mind and you keep it, go back and read her last book in Nature Things Merely Grow, which is a nonfiction book.

Very tough, very tough subject matter.

It's about the death of her two sons.

And it is the most beautiful, true, honest book about what it means to love someone and to accept their choices.

Thank you so much.

Yes, in fact, you have to read a long way to understand

discover why there's a horse on the cover.

But I like to think it keeps the reader engaged.

What's with the horse, they keep saying to themselves.

It is a beautiful painting, and it was done by my friend Noah Satterstrom here in Nashville, who did the cover for The Dutch House.

He's amazing.

And I own both of those paintings.

They are hanging in my house.

But he's a really, really good friend.

And I called him up and I was like, hey, I need a horse that's looking straight ahead at the viewer.