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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.

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.

Everything We Never Had

by Randy Ribay

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.

One of Our Kind

A Novel

by Nicola Yoon

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Thrilling with insightful social commentary, One of Our Kind explores the ways in which freedom is complicated by the presumptions we make about ourselves and each other.

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.

A Sorceress Comes to Call

by T. Kingfisher

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call―a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's The Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.

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.

So Far Gone

A Novel

by Jess Walter

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis' True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a ...

Margo's Got Money Troubles

A Novel

by Rufi Thorpe

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world—from the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed ...

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.

Liars

A Novel

by Sarah Manguso

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from the author of Very Cold People and 300 Arguments.

Another Word for Love

A Memoir

by Carvell Wallace

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.

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