3 short story collections as brilliant as summer lightning

Fiction

10 contemporary writers (Ali Smith! Tommy Orange!) apply their considerable talents to the signature style of Franz Kafka in this anthology.

Book jacket image for Beautiful Days by Zach Williams

Fiction

Zach Williams lets each of these 10 short stories unfold at their own quirky pace—like alien insects inching their way out of cocoons.

Book jacket image for Ninetails by Sally Wen Mao

Fiction

In Sally Wen Mao’s Ninetails, a fox spirit helps Asian women of diverse backgrounds and ages transcend the violence and turbulence of their lives.

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Children's & YA Middle Grade Children's

Kathryn Ormsbee, Molly Brooks

By Linda M. Castellitto

With its exhilarating combination of prose and illustrations, Turning Twelve will make readers clamor for more of Katie’s adventures.

Children's & YA Picture Book Children's

Jacob Grant

By Linda M. Castellitto

Umami is a festive treat of a book sure to make storytimes and mealtimes even more delicious.

Nonfiction Nature Animals

Rick McIntyre

By Deborah Hopkinson

The fifth entry in Rick McIntyre’s Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone series chronicles the lives of eight wolves in stories that sparkle with insight.

Nonfiction Memoir

Glory Edim

By Priscilla Kipp

In her plucky, intimate memoir, Glory Edim, the creator of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, tethers the books and authors she has found and loved to her own rocky journey of self-discovery—it’s reader catnip.

Science Fiction & Fantasy Horror

The Queen

Nick Cutter

By Matthew Jackson

The Queen reaffirms Nick Cutter’s place as one of the horror genre’s most entertaining storytellers.