Susan Choi Books in Order

In 1955, a Korean student haunted by war arrives at a small Tennessee college. His growing connection with Katherine, a Southern woman burdened by her own past, links two outsiders seeking a way forward.

Edited by David Remnick and Susan Choi for The New Yorker’s seventy-fifth anniversary, this anthology gathers stories of and about New York City. The selections span the magazine’s history and portray the city through a wide range of writers and neighborhoods.

Fugitive radical Jenny Shimada agrees to shelter three younger revolutionaries, including a kidnapped newspaper heiress who has joined her captors. Their isolated life exposes tensions over race, power and ideology as fear erodes the group’s solidarity.

When a colleague is attacked by a serial bomber, aging mathematician Professor Lee draws the FBI’s attention. Suspicion disrupts his academic life and forces him to confront painful memories, old relationships and unresolved regrets.

Graduate student Regina Gottlieb arrives at university already warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur’s reputation. Attraction to him and his volatile wife draws her into emotional entanglements whose consequences extend far beyond her early academic ambitions.

A boy approaching first grade joins his family’s annual camping trip, where his mother encourages greater independence. An unexpected tiger in the woods transforms the familiar outing into a story about growing up and facing change.

At a competitive performing arts high school in the 1980s, David and Sarah fall in love under an influential acting teacher’s scrutiny. Shifting perspectives revisit their relationships, questioning memory, consent and the authority adults wield.

Ten-year-old Louisa survives a nighttime walk by the sea, but her father disappears. Across decades and countries, she and her mother struggle with the loss while their family's fractured history complicates the question of what happened.