Adult & Contemporary Fiction

(Available after January 30th, 2023)A young woman’s carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . filled with...

A Phenomenal Book Club Pick“A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepare for the future, so much so she almost sold me on...

A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.   A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan...

This debut that has captured our hearts with its wit and tenderness, and it’s an unforgettable story about a “self-made” widow who gets requests from other wives to help them also get rid of their no-good husbands. Twisty and bold with a dark edge, The...

Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance stateIn a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law...

(Available after January 30th, 2023)A working-class woman who infiltrates Singapore’s high society to fulfill her dreams risks losing everything in the process—including herself—in this propulsive novel by debut author Kyla Zhao. For as long as she can...

A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling and unforgettable novel by Audrey Burges.From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that...

(Available after February 25th, 2023)The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this sharply funny and achingly tender debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis.Grace Johnson can’t escape the...

#1 Sunday Times Bestseller. “Lush, evocative and utterly irresistible.”—Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Prepare to lift the lid on a lush reimagination of the mythological Pandora….Susan Stokes-Chapman’s...

A "mesmerizing" (James McBride), "magnificent" (Ha Jin) intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South Korea—about friendship, belonging, and displacement. Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War,...

(Available after February 18th, 2023)A lyrical debut novel that asks what we owe to our families, what we owe to our ancestors, and what we owe to ourselves. Janelle M. Williams’s Gone Like Yesterday employs magical realism to explore the majestic and...

(Available after February 20th, 2023)A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother...

A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Victorian fiction.Nobody ever goes to Hartwood Hall. Folks say it’s cursed…It’s 1852 and Margaret Lennox, a young widow, attempts to escape the shadows of her...

(Available after February 20th, 2023)A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.Like...

(Available after June 30th, 2023)The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexei Navalny’s press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, where she shares a...

(Available after February 20th, 2023)A singular debut from “an important and radical new literary voice” (Elif Batuman), The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman, and emerging writer   It’s 2017 and Leyla, a...

(Available after March 30th, 2023)A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman...

(Available after March 20th, 2023)Two destined rivals fall desperately in love—but the fate of medieval Europe hangs in the balance.“I will always want you. Enemy or ally, I always shall.”Twelfth-century Europe. Newly crowned King Philip of France is...

Set amid the beauty and wilderness of the Colorado mountains, an unforgettable and deeply moving story of a young woman who follows her heart.   Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of...

(Available after May 30th, 2023)A Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2023   “A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.” —Leslie Jamison It’s hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying...