Best New Paperback 2024

An Irish town up against a radical right-wing party, Prophet Song is a haunting and harrowingly modern tale that resonates with so much of the present sociopolitical landscape. Written in gorgeous lyrical prose with tangible stakes that feel all-too...

At times chaotic and brutal, at other times beautiful and poetic, and still at other times hilarious and unsettling. This is the story of young women fighting and above all else, it is entertaining.Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The Washington...

This gutting memoir is a love letter to Joan's late husband, a prayer for her daughter, and the story of a winding search for peace after tremendous loss.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s...

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war.It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry...

A TODAY and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 • A Goodreads Buzziest Debut Novel of the New Year • An Electric Lit Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of Spring 2023 • A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of Spring & Summer 2023 • A...

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this unforgettable story of grief, hope, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.The three Blue...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. What happens when the person you’ve built your entire life on is suddenly gone? This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma’s deceptively simple What I’d Rather Not Think About...

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone.This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You...

A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in the Chizurui mansion in this prizewinning classic Japanese mystery.The 1st book in English from Akimitsu Takagi since his “Clever, kinky, and highly...

Verghese’s first novel since 2008’s bestselling Cutting for Stone is a gorgeous and unforgettable epic about a family in South India where at least one member of each generation dies by drowning. Spanning three generations, Covenant of...

Leaning into the lush possibilities of dark academia, The City of Stardust is full of cutthroat scholars, a dark and dangerous education and a secret society of magicians. It’s perfect for fans of The Atlas Six or R.F. Kuang’s Babel.A #1...

A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she’s been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a...

A second-chance romance with so much heart, this sweeping debut is a fresh take on love that will leave you feeling emotionally full.From the creator of viral TikTok account Betty's Book List, a debut romance about a supermodel and a photographer with a...

Kindred is Hugo and Nebula Award winner Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece. An essential read which explores themes of racial and gender identity with insight and originality, for fans of the Hulu TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK. “A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a...

From the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.A boy searches for his father, a prison guard...

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023. “Eliza Clark’s writing embraces the socially unacceptable and wryly explores themes of gender, power, and violence.”—Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023...

The much-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes and Intimacies.I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else,...

A laugh-out-loud romcom in 2024 perfect for fans of Catherine Walsh and Elena Armas.Committing to a fake romance is easy. It’s keeping it fake that’s the problem …Sophie Rogers finds it easy to focus on the important things in life...

Falconer is a prison and Farragut is the convicted man. This is the story of what happens to him. "FALCONER is John Cheever's most wonderful novel--an unforgettably moving book, both fantastic and real--about a substantial upper middle-class man and the...