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True Love

by Sarah Gerard – Harper (July 07, 2020)

An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Books of the Summer Selection • A Refinery29 25 Books You’ll Want To Read This Summer Selection

One of today’s most provocative literary writers—the author of the...

Survivor Song

by Paul Tremblay – William Morrow (July 07, 2020)

“Fresh and surprising. Survivor Song may be one of Tremblay’s best— beautifully detailed, viscerally frightening, and deep with emotional resonance."  —Dan Chaon, New York Times bestselling author...

The Color of Air

by Gail Tsukiyama – HarperVia (July 07, 2020)

PARADE’s Best Books to Read this Summer

From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a gorgeous and evocative historical novel about a Japanese-American family...

Want

by Lynn Steger Strong – Henry Holt and Co. (July 06, 2020)

Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love.

Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York...

Cool for America

by Andrew Martin – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 06, 2020)

Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin's Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition...

The Vapors

by David Hill – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 06, 2020)

One of "21 books we can't wait to read in 2020" --Thrillist

"Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo" --Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review

A New York Times Book Review summer reading...

22 Minutes of Unconditional Love

by Daphne Merkin – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 06, 2020)

"Daphne Merkin meets the formidable challenge of describing female lust and romantic obsession with all the desired daring, candor, and skill. The result is a bracingly honest, keenly insightful, utterly compelling...

Fraternity

by Benjamin Nugent – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 06, 2020)

Voiced by an off-kilter chorus of the young and desperate to belong, Benjamin Nugent's provocative collection pries the fraternity door off its hinges, daring us to peer inside with amusement, horror, and also...

The New Parisienne

by Lindsey Tramuta & Joann Pai – Abrams (July 06, 2020)

In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city

The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's...

Shadow State

by Luke Harding – Harper (June 30, 2020)

A thrilling account of how Russia is waging a hidden war against America and the West, using espionage, corruption, fake news, and KGB-style murder

March 2018. Two Russian assassins arrive in a provincial English...

Without Ever Reaching the Summit

by Paolo Cognetti & Stash Luczkiw – HarperOne (June 23, 2020)

In this exquisitely written journal-turned-journey of self-discovery, international bestselling author Paolo Cognetti examines our universal desire for connection through a voyage in the Himalayas.Why climb...

Twisted

by Emma Dabiri – Harper Perennial (June 23, 2020)

Stamped from the Beginning meets You Can't Touch My Hair in this timely and resonant essay collection from Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri, exploring the ways in which...

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

by Talia Hibbert – Avon (June 23, 2020)

As seen in OprahMag, Bustle, Parade, PopSugar, New York Post, Essence, Travel & Leisure, Ms. Magazine, TheSkimm, Betches, Shondaland, and Buzzfeed! Named one of the Best Books of the Year (so far) by Apple and...

Lot Six

by David Adjmi – Harper (June 23, 2020)

“David Adjmi has written one of the great American memoirs, a heartbreaking, hilarious story of what it means to make things up, including yourself. A wild tale of lack and lies, galling humiliations and majestic...

Our Time Is Now

by Stacey Abrams – Henry Holt and Co. (June 08, 2020)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a world in which all voices are heard and all people believe and feel that they matter." --Kerry Washington...

Parakeet

by Marie-Hélène Bertino – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 01, 2020)

**Highly Anticipated at The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Refinery29, Yahoo! Life, The Millions, Alma, The Rumpus, and Lit Hub**

"Miraculous: spry and mordant, with sentences that lull you with...

The Fallen

by Carlos Manuel Álvarez – Graywolf Press (June 01, 2020)

A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown

A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of...

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women

by Wayétu Moore – Graywolf Press (June 01, 2020)

An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States

When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their...

Hollywood Park

by Mikel Jollett – Celadon Books (May 25, 2020)

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

"A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes...

Telephone

by Percival Everett – Graywolf Press (May 04, 2020)

An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from "one of our culture's preeminent novelists" (Los Angeles Times)

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow...

Untold Night and Day

by Bae Suah – The Overlook Press (May 04, 2020)

A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by South Korea's leading contemporary writer

A startling and boundary-pushing novel, Untold Night and Day tells...

Fracture

by Andrés Neuman, Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 04, 2020)

Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman's Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan's 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets...

Philosopher of the Heart

by Clare Carlisle – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 04, 2020)

Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist Søren Kierkegaard's life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world.

Søren Kierkegaard...

Scandinavian Noir

by Wendy Lesser – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 04, 2020)

"Even those unmoved by its subject will thrill to [Scandinavian Noir], a beautifully crafted inquiry into fiction, reality, crime and place . . . Perhaps when it comes to fiction and reality, what we need most...

Pelosi

by Molly Ball – Henry Holt and Co. (May 04, 2020)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political journalist Molly Ball

She's the iconic...

A Gift for a Ghost

by Borja Gonzalez – Abrams ComicArts (May 04, 2020)

An untalented punk band and a parallel dimension--what could go wrong?

In Borja González's stunning graphic novel, two parallel stories reflect and intertwine in a tale of youthful dreams and desires. In...

The Celestial Hunter

by Roberto Calasso & Richard Dixon – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 27, 2020)

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read." --The New York Times Book Review

The eighth part of Roberto...

All Boys Aren't Blue

by George M. Johnson – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) (April 27, 2020)

*An Amazon Best Book of the Year optioned for television by Gabrielle Union!*

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence,...

Everything Is Under Control

by Phyllis Grant – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 20, 2020)

"In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant . . . reminds us of how transformative the junctures where food and life collide can be." --The New York Times Book Review

"What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir...

Man of My Time

by Dalia Sofer – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 13, 2020)

"Finely wrought, a master class in the layering of time and contradiction that gives us a deeply imagined, and deeply human, soul." --Rebecca Makkai, The New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant, gripping account...

The Address Book

by Deirdre Mask – St. Martin's Press (April 13, 2020)

An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George.

An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses...

The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria

by Greg King & Penny Wilson – St. Martin's Press (April 06, 2020)

In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner, including never-before-seen photos of the wreck today.

In 1956, a...

American Harvest

by Marie Mutsuki Mockett – Graywolf Press (April 06, 2020)

An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains

For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle...

The Dominant Animal

by Kathryn Scanlan – Mcd x Fsg Originals (April 06, 2020)

A collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist

In The Dominant Animal--Kathryn Scanlan's adventurous, unsettling debut collection--compression is key. Sentences...

Assume Nothing

by Tanya Selvaratnam – Henry Holt and Co. (April 06, 2020)

A combination of memoir, reporting, and research, Assume Nothing is an urgent, timely examination of a frightening type of abuse of power. It tells Tanya Selvaratnam's incredible story, while offering tools...

Miss Austen

by Gill Hornby – Flatiron Books (April 06, 2020)

A #1 International Bestseller

"A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." --Karen Joy Fowler

"You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved."...

Hollywood Double Agent

by Jonathan Gill – Abrams Press (April 06, 2020)

The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, ï¬?lm producer and Russian double agent

Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s....

Starling Days

by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan – The Overlook Press (April 06, 2020)

The moving new novel by the author of Harmless Like You, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and NPR Great Read

On their first date, Mina told Oscar that she was bisexual, vegetarian, and on meds....

A Fanatic Heart

by Edna O'Brien – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 30, 2020)

In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience.

Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and...

Like Flies from Afar

by K. Ferrari & Adrian Nathan West – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 23, 2020)

"This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff."...

A Bond Undone

by Jin Yong & Gigi Chang – St. Martin's Press (March 23, 2020)

A Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time!

In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth...

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

The Singing Hills Cycle #1

by Nghi Vo – Tor.com (March 23, 2020)

"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."--NPR

A Paste Most Anticipated Novel of 2020

A Library...

American Rebels

by Nina Sankovitch – St. Martin's Press (March 23, 2020)

Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.

Before they...

Great State

by Timothy Brook – Harper (March 17, 2020)

The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer’s Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook analyzes the last eight centuries of China’s relationship with the world in this...

Later

by Paul Lisicky – Graywolf Press (March 16, 2020)

A stunning portrait of community, identity, and sexuality by the critically acclaimed author of The Narrow Door

When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a history of...

Hearts of Oak

by Eddie Robson – Tor.com (March 16, 2020)

"[Hearts of Oak packs in] the sort of profound and lacerating laughter that Robson's countrymen Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett perfected." -NPR

Hearts of Oak is a delightful science fiction adventure from...

Pride of Eden

by Taylor Brown – St. Martin's Press (March 16, 2020)

The enthralling new novel from the acclaimed author of Fallen Land, The River of Kings, and Gods of Howl Mountain

Retired racehorse jockey and Vietnam veteran Anse Caulfield rescues exotic big cats, elephants,...

The Operator

by Gretchen Berg – William Morrow (March 10, 2020)

"What if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town? With great humor and insight, The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes...

The Mirror & the Light

Thomas Cromwell #3

by Hilary Mantel – Henry Holt and Co. (March 09, 2020)

The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up...

Beyond the Sea

by Paul Lynch – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 09, 2020)

"Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful." --M John Harrison, The Guardian

The haunting story of two men stranded at sea pushing against their physical and mental limits to stay alive

Based partly on true...