Summer Reads

“Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove KnausgaardNamed a most anticipated book of 2022 by Vulture, Glamour, Bustle, and Lit HubFrom the author of the “dazzling. . . . and...

(Available after October 30th, 2022)The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.   Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile...

A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim SoutineSteve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the...

A raw and engrossing portrait of familial and marital dysfunction by “one of Britain’s most original young writers” (The Observer).Neve is a writer in her mid-thirties married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but...

(Available after September 30th, 2022)Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent.Conaboy expected things to change with the birth of her child...

“The Godmother [is a] crisply written, dutifully researched book exploring the role of women in the…underbelly of Italian life.”—New York Times Book ReviewThe chilling story of one woman’s rise to prominence in the Italian Mafia, and the as-yet untold...

The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy—by a leading tech journalistAcross the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Every minute, more than five...

“[A] blistering physicological thriller.” —The New York Times Book Review"A compelling debut that fizzes with tension from start to finish, blending the subtle erudition of literary fiction with the drama and suspense of the very best thrillers...

(Available after December 30th, 2022)“Jerome Charyn’s movie-love dances like a flame over every page of Big Red. Like its gloriously outspoken narrator—who never existed but should have—the book is bewitched by cinema and also hardheaded about the crass,...

What if every story you'd ever heard was true? Jack killed the giants. Red slayed the wolf. Rapunzel fled the tower. But the greatest one of all, had yet to be told. Once upon a time, the magical Kingdom of Avalon was left to wither and die after the...

(Available after 3-20 days)"A DELICIOUS HIGH-STAKES ADVENTURE." —PEOPLE MAGAZINEPerfect for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Holly Black, this enthralling fantasy adventure follows a teenage girl chosen to be the human sacrifice in a deadly game between...

(Available after 3-20 days)Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus...

(Available after 3-20 days)After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She’s determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves. Even if it means challenging Queen Red to...

(Available after 3-20 days)This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed...

Alyssa Gardner went down the rabbit hole and took control of her destiny. She survived the battle for Wonderland and the battle for her heart. In this collection of three novellas, join Alyssa and her family as they look back at their memories of...

A JULY 2022 BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICKWhat would you do if you found the spark that made you feel whole again?After twelve years of marriage and two kids, Merit has begun to feel like a stranger in her own life. She loves her husband and sons, but she...

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.Now, as...

The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece—one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.   Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement)...

From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author whom USA TODAY calls a “master of the page-turner,” comes the spectacular story of a woman’s complex quest to form a family.Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen.Music has...

A “brilliant and terrifically fun”* debut novel brings an enchanting new voice to fantasy. Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the...