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The Night Guest

by Hildur Knútsdóttir

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that's sure to keep you awake at night.

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.

Mina's Matchbox

A Novel

by Yoko Ogawa

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.

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A Novel

by Edouard Louis

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation—about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.

The Accidentals

Stories

by Guadalupe Nettel

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the International Booker Shortlisted author of Still Born, a powerful collection of stories about characters coping with estrangement, isolation, and the unknown.

Vanishing World

by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by ...

Snowglobe

Snowglobe, Book 1

by Soyoung Park, Joungmin Lee Comfort

Hardcover: Feb 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel ...

Mornings Without Mii

by Mayumi Inaba

Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A beloved Japanese modern classic: a meditation on solitude, independence, writing, and life alongside a cat.

We Do Not Part

A Novel

by Han Kang

Hardcover: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Han Kang's most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter of Korean history.

White Nights

by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Hardcover: Jan 1848 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A young, lonely man strolls the streets of St. Petersburg contemplating his solitude when he happens upon a young woman in tears.

Canoes

by Maylis De Kerangal

Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella and 7 short stories about the mysteries of place and language.

Patriot

A Memoir

by Alexei Navalny

Hardcover: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.

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