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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.

Women's Hotel

A Novel

by Daniel M. Lavery

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women's hotel in 1960s New York City.

Rejection

Fiction

by Tony Tulathimutte

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens ("the first great millennial novel," New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and ...

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

How to Dodge a Cannonball

A Novel

by Dennard Dayle

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A cutting, revealing caricature of the American Civil War, told through the eyes of a white teenager who joins an all-Black regiment of soldiers, for fans of Colson Whitehead and James McBride.

Bury Your Gays

by Chuck Tingle

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.

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.

Endling

A Novel

by Maria Reva

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-...

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.

Spent

A Comic Novel

by Alison Bechdel

Hardcover: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction.

Long Island Compromise

A Novel

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.

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