Books about music, the arts and artists (fiction and nonfiction)

The Anthropologists

by Aysegül Savas

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family?

Exhibit

A Novel

by R O. Kwon

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life.

Blue Ruin

A Novel

by Hari Kunzru

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2025

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, capital, art and those who devote their lives to creating it

Audition

A Novel

by Katie Kitamura

Hardcover: Apr 2025

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

Tom Lake

A Novel

by Ann Patchett

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2025

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.

Icarus

by K. Ancrum

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art...

Bitter Crop

The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

by Paul Alexander

Hardcover: Feb 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

A Novel

by Xochitl Gonzalez

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death

The Swans of Harlem

Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

by Karen Valby

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Feb 2025

The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.

Mona Acts Out

A Novel

by Mischa Berlinski

Hardcover: Jan 2025

An exuberant, darkly humorous novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Fieldwork.

Good Girl

A Novel

by Aria Aber

Hardcover: Jan 2025

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can't escape its history.

A girl can get in ...

City of Night Birds

A Novel

by Juhea Kim

Hardcover: Nov 2024

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.