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Saints of the Household

by Ari Tison

Hardcover: Mar 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer - that will take your breath away.

Before the Mango Ripens

by Afabwaje Kurian

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for belonging. Both epic and intimate, Afabwaje Kurian'...

Bright Objects

by Ruby Todd

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands....

The Book of George

A Novel

by Kate Greathead

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. for our times: Kate Greathead's razor-sharp but big-hearted excavation of millennial masculinity, The Book of George.

Blood Test

A Comedy

by Charles Baxter

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder.

Playground

A Novel

by Richard Powers

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.

Intermezzo

A Novel

by Sally Rooney

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love―from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Yr Dead

by Sam Sax

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in ...

Small Rain

A Novel

by Garth Greenwell

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A medical crisis brings one man close to death―and to love, art, and beauty―in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.

Tell Me Everything

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

Colored Television

A Novel

by Danzy Senna

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.

The Coin

A Novel

by Yasmin Zaher

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind

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