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Saint of the Narrows Street

by William Boyle

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

As an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear the consequences—and face each other—in this thrilling southern Brooklyn-set tragic opera of the highest caliber from crime ...

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 ...

The Dark We Know

by Wen-yi Lee

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From Gillian Flynn Books, a lyrical young adult horror by debut author Wen-yi Lee that's perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting, Stephen King's IT, and The Haunting of Hill House.

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

Dispersals

On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

by Jessica J. Lee

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future

The Night of Baba Yaga

by Akira Otani, Sam Bett

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.

Move Like Water

My Story of the Sea

by Hannah Stowe

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it's like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm.

Mood Swings

A Novel

by Frankie Barnet

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means.

Early Sobrieties

A Novel

by Michael Deagler

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Like a sober, millennial Jesus' Son, Michael Deagler's debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering addict adrift in the fragmenting landscape of America's middle class.

Women and Children First

A Novel

by Alina Grabowski

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town.

The Witches of Bellinas

A Novel

by J. Nicole Jones

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her marriage, only to be swept up in a hedonistic cult that isn't what it seems

Happy

A Novel

by Celina Baljeet Basra

Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams - a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis.

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