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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.

Pink Slime

by Fernanda Trias

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize.

Nicked

A Novel

by M.T. Anderson

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saint

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

The Anthropologists

by Aysegül Savas

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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?

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

Stories

by Ruben Reyes

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.

UnWorld

A Novel

by Jayson Greene

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of Once More We Saw Stars comes a gripping novel about four intertwined lives that collide in the wake of a mysterious tragedy. Set in a near-future world where the boundaries between human and AI blur, the story challenges our ...

Craft

Stories I Wrote for the Devil

by Ananda Lima

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.

The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

by Bart Yates

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s ...

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.

Exhibit

A Novel

by R O. Kwon

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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

This Is Your Mother

A Memoir

by Erika J. Simpson

Hardcover: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.

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