Audition By: Katie Kitamura

Audition is a mesmerizing novel by Katie Kitamura, the acclaimed author of Intimacies — and a Booker Prize 2025 Shortlisted title. A woman navigates the unsettling boundaries between performance and identity when a stranger enters her life — or perhaps re-enters it. Kitamura's prose is precise and hypnotic, building a quiet dread that lingers long after the final page. A masterwork of psychological literary fiction for readers who love ambiguity, interiority, and the uncanny.