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American Spy
By Lauren WilkinsonA Cold War FBI agent sets out to seduce an African Communist president. -
Ancestral Night
By Elizabeth BearA space salvager finds an ancient technology that is of great interest to both pirates and the government. -
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The Bird King
By G. Willow WilsonSet in the royal court of Granada during the Spanish Inquisition, a concubine is accused of sorcery. -
Black Condition, F.T. Narcissus
By Jayy DoddStruggle, resilience, and alienation in the internet age are deconstructed in dodd’s experimental collection. -
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
By Marlon JamesTracker is hired to find a boy who disappeared years before. He and his search party are quickly targeted by deadly creatures. -
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
By Katherine EbanAn investigation into the generic drug boom. -
Bringing Down the Duke
By Evie DunmoreAnnabelle Archer recruits men of influence to fight in the suffrage movement in 1879 England. She sets her sights on a cold and calculating duke and their romance nearly upends British society. -
Broken Stars: Contemporary Science Fiction in Translation
By Ken LiuA collection of contemporary Chinese science fiction in translation. -
BTTM FDRS
By Ezra Claytan Daniels & Ben PassmoreSet in Chicago, this is pitched as similar to Get Out and is a gentrification horror story where an apartment building comes alive and seems to be eating the inhabitants. -
Bunny
By Mona AwadDarkly funny and sardonic, an MFA student at an elite New England University is asked to join the popular clique. -
Cannonball
By Kelsey WrotenAngsty and beautiful and will resonate with the young hipster crowds. -
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
By Emily BazelonAn investigation into the unchecked power of the prosecutor in this era of mass incarceration. -
A Cosmology of Monsters
By Shaun HamillA Texas family that runs a haunted house is haunted by monsters. -
The Crazy Bunch
By Willie PerdomoThis savage, funny, and lyrical hymn speaks to Perdomo’s formative years in East Harlem. -
The Current
By Tim JohnsonSurviving the accident that killed her friend, a young woman delves into the case of another victim from a decade earlier. -
Deaf Republic
By Ilya KaminskyKaminsky maps a republic of the imagination that has an unsettling contemporary resonance. -
Disappearing Earth
By Julia PhillipsThe disappearance of two young girls from a Russian peninsula shakes the community. -
The Doll Factory
By Elizabeth MacnealIn 1850s London an aspiring artist takes a job as a model working for an obsessive painter. -
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By Olga Tokarczuk, trans. by Antonia…When her neighbor turns up dead, then others within the Polish village and outsiders turn up dead, Janine inserts herself in the investigation. -
Exhalation
By Ted ChiangA story collection with themes including the effects of technology on humans, free will, fate and consciousness. -
Fleishman is in Trouble
By Taffy Brodesser-AknerToby Fleishman's soon-to-be-ex-wife Rachel drops their two kids at his place a day early and fails to pick them up as scheduled, things quickly get desperate. -
Fly Already
By Etgar KeretThis smart, quirky, irreverent collection nearly 2 dozen stories. -
The Future of Another Timeline
By Annalee NewitzA geologist and a teen rebel are swept up in a historical parallel world America where time travel is possible. -
Ghost Wall
By Sarah MossAn Iron Age reenactment trip with a group of experimental anthropologists turns sinister. -
Gideon the Ninth
By Tamsyn MuirA lesbian necromancer becomes a bodyguard to an emperor to secure her freedom. -
Girl
By Edna O'BrienA young Nigerian woman kidnapped by Boko Haram escapes but not before becoming pregnant by one of her captors. -
A Girl Returned
By Donatella Di Pietrantonio, trans.…An unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family whom she has never met. -
Gods of Jade and Shadow
By Silvia Moreno-GarciaSet against the Jazz age in Mexico's underworld, Casiopea Tun is sent by the Mayan God of Death on a mystical adventure. -
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
By Mira JacobThoughtful examination of race and family. Good for a New York audience. -
Grand Union
By Zadie SmithA collection filled with radically different characters in varied settings with unique sets of struggles. -
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
By David TreuerAn anthropologist chronicles Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to present day. -
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How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. KendiA fresh approach to recognizing and deconstructing racism and inequality in ourselves and society. -
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By Jenny OdellA critique of the forces vying for our attention that redefines what we think of as productivity, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see. -
In Her Feminine Sign
By Dunyā MīkhāʼīlMikhail’s poetry renders sublime and ordinary the enigmatic states of womanhood. -
In Waves
By A.J. DungoDepicts Dungo's relationship with girlfriend dying of cancer, mixed in with the history of surfing. -
Inland
By Téa ObrehtSet in the Arizona Territory in 1893, the novel follows the intertwining stories of a frontierswoman waiting for the men in her life to return home and an outlaw who is haunted by ghosts. -
The Institute
By Stephen KingTeens with psychic abilities are held captive at the institute. -
Lady In the Lake
By Laura LippmanBaltimore, 1966, a reporter investigates the murder of an African-American party girl. -
Lanny
By Max PorterIn a small English village, a mythical creature is awakened by the arrival of a young boy. -
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
By Margaret RenklA beautifully written collection of essays about nature and the author's childhood. -
Library of Small Catastrophes
By Alison C. RollinsThe complexities of life are cataloged and archived in a simple and effective poetic style. -
Lima :: Limon
By Natalie Scenters-ZapicoBorders exist inside and out, traverse them if you can. -
Lost Children Archive
By Valeria LuiselliA novel about a family on a road trip across america told in varying perspectives and with archival documents and photographs. -
Lovely War
By Julie BerryA romance set in WWI & WWII where the gods hold the fate of four mortals. -
The Man Who Saw Everything
By Deborah LevyPosing for a photograph on Abbey Road in London, an imitation of the iconic album cover, Saul Adler is sideswiped by a car setting off a spiral of events. -
The Memory Police
By Yoko Ogawa, trans. by Stephen SnyderA young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who erase memories. -
Mister Miracle
By Tom King & Mitch GeradsPeople have been raving about this for 2 years and the trade finally came out this year. Definitely top echelon when it comes to superhero comics. -
Mouthful of Birds
By Samanta SchweblinA darkly funny and disturbing collection. Inventive and full of haunting imagery. -
My Lovely Wife
By Samantha DowningA psychopathic couple in suburbia decide to spice things up. -
The Nanny
By Gilly MacmillanWhen your nanny is getting too close to your family, perhaps it is time to get rid of her? -
The Need
By Helen PhillipsScientist Molly is home alone with her two young children when an intruder enters her home. -
The Nickel Boys
By Colson WhiteheadThe story of two teenage boys in a brutal segregated reform school in Florida. -
Night Boat to Tangier
By Kevin BarryTwo drug smugglers reflect on their choices in a Spanish ferry terminal. -
Ninth House
By Leigh BardugoA poor girl is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale by mysterious benefactors. -
Normal People
By Sally RooneyA will they won't they end up together story with two very complicated and sympathetic characters. -
Off Season
By James SturmA couple separates during the fall of 2016 as Bernie looses to Hillary and Hillary to Trump. -
Olive, Again
By Elizabeth StroutA sequel to Olive Kitteridge finds our beloved and cantankerous lead struggling to understand herself and the people around her in Crosby, Maine. -
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By Ocean VuongWritten as a letter to a mother who cannot read, the narrator confesses difficult memories from childhood and things about his current life. -
Orange World
By Karen RussellLet's just say the title story is about a new mother who strikes a deal to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection over her baby. -
An Orchestra of Minorities
By Chigozie ObiomaA spirit tells the story of a Nigerian farmer who sacrifices everything for a wealthy woman with whom he is in love. -
The Other Americans
By Laila LalamiThe suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant impacts the lives of a diverse cast of characters. -
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
By George PackerA narrative portrait of the influential American diplomat that explores how his achievements over half a century of history were complicated by his political ambitions. -
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
By Dave CullenAn account of the teenage survivors of the Parkland massacre who became powerful activists. -
Penny Nichols
By M.K. Reed, Greg Means, & Matt WiegleTemp worker Penny falls in with amateur filmmakers and she begins to find a place for herself. Funny, chaotic, sarcastic. -
The Perfect Wife
By JP DelaneyA woman miraculously restored to health by the innovations of her tech icon husband struggles with missing memories. -
A Prince On Paper
By Alyssa ColeNya Jerami is forced into a pretend engagement with the infamous prince Johan von Braustein, whom she loves to hate. -
Raised in Captivity
By Chuck KlostermanA witty satirical collection of high-concept stories. -
Red at the Bone
By Jacqueline WoodsonMelody celebrates a coming of age ceremony at her grandparents' house in 2001 Brooklyn, her family remembers 1985, when Melody's own mother prepared for a similar party that never took place. -
Red, White & Royal Blue
By Casey McQuistonThe First Son and the Prince of Wales must pretend to be friends, until they are so much more than friends. -
The Right Swipe
By Alisha RaiA cynical dating app creator has to decide whether or not to take a second chance at romance. -
Rusty Brown
By Chris WareA nerdy, bullied, Nebraska teen trying to survive junior high school. -
Sabrina & Corina
By Kali Fajardo-AnstineA collection of stories featuring Latina characters in the American West. -
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden KeefeBegins with an IRA kidnapping of a mother of 10 in 1972 Belfast and ends with the discovery of her remains. Sandwiched between is the story of one facet of the IRA. -
The Secrets We Kept
By Lara PrescottTwo CIA agents help to publish Doctor Zhivago against the censorship of Cold War Moscow. -
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
By Juliet GrimesThe story of an Italian American family and the complicated woman at its heart, Stella Fortuna. -
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
By Megan Twohey & Jodi KantorThe story of Harvey Weinstein's decades of sexual abuse in Hollywood. -
A Single Thread
By Tracy ChevalierWinchester, 1932, a war widow joins a century-of circle of embroiderers. -
Soft Science
By Franny ChoiSavagely erotic, Choi surveys the future with a razor-sharp eye. This collection has the sharp power of a razor to the sensibilities. -
Some Girls Survive on their Sorcery Alone
By Thiahera NurseFierce, real, and unapologetic, Nurse’s poetry portrays the vulnerability and subjective view of women. -
The Testaments
By Margaret AtwoodMargaret Atwood finally answers the question, what happened to Offred? -
Thick: And Other Essays
By Tressie McMillan CottomProvocative and witty essays about beauty standards, media, money, and more. -
Three Women
By Lisa TaddeoA close look at the sex lives of three American women in all its complexity. -
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By Kate AtkinsonA BBC radio producer finds herself targeted by dangerous individuals from her past as a World War II espionage monitor for MI5. -
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion
By Jia TolentinoA collection of essays about the fractures in today's culture from a writer who indulges in all she takes on. -
Trust Exercise
By Susan ChoiFollows two 15-year-old students in a 1980s performing arts school. -
Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50
By Lee Ann RoripaughA playful and inventive portrait of nature’s fierce and humorous indifference toward humanity and its accessories. -
The Turn of the Key
By Ruth WareAn incarcerated woman struggles to explain the events that started with her taking a job as a nanny in the Scottish highlands and ended with her imprisonment for child murder. -
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By Robert MacfarlaneRichly described nature writing about various worlds that exist under our feet. -
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By David Wallace-WellsAn account of all the many possible ways climate change will be the end of humanity as we know it. -
The Volunteer
By Salvatore ScibonaThe book follows Vollie Frade through three tours in Vietnam, a black ops mission he will forever regret, a marriage to the last survivor of a free-love commune in New Mexico. -
The Water Dancer
By Ta-Nehisi CoatesA Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery. -
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By Sonia PurnellTraces the story of Virginia Hall, a WWII spy who coordinated Resistance efforts in Europe. -
The World Doesn't Require You
By Rion Amilcar ScottStories set in a fictional town in Maryland that is at times surreal, offbeat, and darkly funny. -
The Year of Blue Water
By YanyiDeceptively simple, The Year of Blue Water speaks to anyone finding their place in the world with emotional depth and clarity. -
The Yellow House
By Sarah M. BroomThe 13th daughter of a widowed mother recalls her childhood in New Orleans 13th ward.