Dan Chaon’s Sleepwalk is both a dystopian thriller chilled to perfection and an often-touching exploration of the enduring power of parental and filial love.
Darkly funny and delightfully surprising, Joseph Han’s debut novel, Nuclear Family, explores the trauma of invented borders through the possession of a young man by the ghost of his sly and grieving grandfather.
Katie Guierrez’s debut novel, More Than You’ll Ever Know, burrows straight to the heart of our true crime fixation through an intense emotional dance between two seemingly different women.
Linda Holmes’ second novel, Flying Solo, has it all: a mystery, shady con artists, a fabulously funny and supportive friend group and even a steamy romance.
Selin, hero of Elif Batuman’s The Idiot, returns with a voice that is more mature, reflective and droll as she starts to move out of her novels and into her own self.
In her second novel, Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley wields language like a rapier, slicing off onion layers of self-delusion and self-doubt to find even more layers underneath.
Kirstin Chen is a versatile, savvy plotter, and Counterfeit readers will be easily drawn into this morally complicated world of high-end counterfeit handbags.
Natalie Jenner’s captivating Bloomsbury Girls has a genial, matter-of-fact style that’s exactly what’s expected for a novel about a humble London bookstore.
Becky Manawatu’s debut novel is ultimately a hopeful work with a message worth remembering: Cries from the heart can be painful, but sometimes they get answered.
In When Women Were Dragons, her first novel for adult readers, Kelly Barnhill offers the same sort of magic she’s brought to middle grade books for years.
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