Manchester, England, 1867. The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting its revenge.

Translated by Alison Watts | Seventeen people die of cyanide poisoning at a party held by the owners of a prominent clinic in a castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor, their teenage daughter, is soon suspected of masterminding the crime.

Two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace.

Mosley overturns the stereotypes that often constrict Black male characters and paints a subtle, powerful portrait of each of his unique, awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd heroes.

Living close to the land in an Edenic post-civilization world, a girl learns the secrets of hunting and star navigation before finding herself in an unknown landscape, where a bear imparts powerful natural-world lessons.

Transforming into a manifestation of a tiger character from her Taiwanese heritage, Daughter falls in love with an equally remarkable girl while translating mysterious letters from female relatives who embody mythical archetypes.

Illustrated by Améziane | A graphic novel memoir from Frank "Big Black" Smith, a prisoner at Attica State Prison in 1971, whose rebellion against the injustices of the prison system remains one of the bloodiest civil rights confrontations in American history.

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.

A swampy literary horror novel about a young woman facing down drug dealers, a crooked cop, and a mad preacher on the banks of an Arkansas river.

Fabricating a respectable relationship with a man with whom he shares nothing in common when his rock-star father's comeback leads to unwanted attention, Luc stages publicity-friendly dates that become complicated by all-too-real feelings.

Translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd | Painting a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan, Kawakami tells the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppression and their own uncertainties as they search for peace and a future they can finally call their own.

An opportunistic gym teacher and a starry-eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack.

Wilkerson examines the nature of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, affect everyday American lives.

Contemptuous of the equally neglectful and suffocating parents who would pass the summer in a stupor of drugs and sex, a dozen eerily mature children run away—right as a dangerous storm bears down on them, subjecting them to apocalyptic chaos.

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction.

Enduring the corruption of their union employment, two young day laborers are drawn respectively to a feminist activist and a vaudeville singer whose experiences reflect an unjust world on the brink of upheaval.

Ford follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades as they make sacrifices for those they love amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture.

In the aftermath of the shooting in 1969 of a local drug dealer by a Brooklyn church deacon, the local community's African American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters.

Translated by Jamie Bulloch | A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare.

Discovering a mysterious note and a grave while walking her dog in the woods, an elderly widow becomes obsessed with learning the victim's story before her grip on reality is shaken by what she uncovers.

Ehrenreich weaves together climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences to examine how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment has led us to the brink of calamity.

The daughter of a woman who allegedly went missing by choice visits the small town where her mother was last seen to investigate unsettling witness accounts.

The star of Ugly Delicious traces his upbringing as a youngest son in a deeply religious Korean American family, his search for identity, his struggles with manic depression, and his unlikely rise as one of his generation’s most influential chefs.

Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

Twelve stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia.

Marshall examines and celebrates African America vernacular with an open and conversational attitude.

In simple language, Barot explores the Spanish colonial and postcolonial periods in Phillipine history, looking for his place in the world.

Taking her successful identical twin's place in the aftermath of a suspicious accident, cynical Iris endeavors to conceive a child with her twin's unknowing husband to secure a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

A novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.

On the day of their estranged father's wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. But instead of money, what their father gives them is information—a name—which reveals a stunning family secret.

One cup history, two spoonfuls memoir, a dash of modern folklore.

Visceral poetry about the natural world exposes an internal human landscape teeming with life.

O'Farrell presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare's marriage to a talented herbalist before the death of their 11-year-old son shapes the writing of his greatest play.

Temping for people on the wrong side of the law, Anna becomes unfairly unemployed before using her talents for manipulating data to expose how the heroes of her world do more harm than good.

Comprising 17 short science fiction and fantasy stories, Liu's collection contains a series of linked stories dealing with variations of a gradually depopulated post-singularity Earth.

Kolker tells the heartrending story of the midcentury American family—a family of 12 children, six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia—that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

Akhtar blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.

An intimate tribute to friendship weaves stories of community building and breaking with brilliant wit.

A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women.

Two orphaned Chinese immigrant siblings flee the threats of their gold rush mining town across an unforgiving landscape where their survival is tested by family secrets, sibling rivalry and disparate goals.

Translated by Sophie Hughes | Inspired by the real-life murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence.

An urgent and unsettling collection of stories about women on the verge.

In Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker.

A museum cleaning woman and aspiring writer marries a rich man who she believes will give her the freedom to practice her art, but discovers that privilege is no less constrained than her previous social station.

Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States, Inheritors paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of its characters as they grapple with the legacies of loss, imperialism, and war.

A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown.

Written during the early months of lockdown, Smith's essays explore ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation.

Making a Faustian bargain to live forever yet never to be remembered, a woman from early-18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa.

As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly visible with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another?

A commemorative 50th anniversary graphic novel account of the May 4, 1970, shootings of Vietnam War college student protesters by the Ohio National Guard draws on in-depth interviews to profile the tragedy's four victims.

A wrathful and personal analysis of American myths, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry is a new classic.

In this provocative novel about the complexities of parenthood, race, and class, the owners of a Long Island beach house unexpectedly take refuge with a vacationing family after some unexplained incident has wiped out phone lines, internet, power, and cell service.

A collection of stories that weaves together the real and unreal, fairy tale, sci-fi, and myth.

Translated by Megan McDowell | A metaphorical tale depicts a complex and relatable world where people from all walks of life engage in internet encounters that lead to unexpected love, transformative adventures, and unimaginable terror.

Tomine illustrates the amusing absurdities of how we choose to spend our time, all the while mining his conflicted relationship with comics and comics culture.

A police officer races to find her missing sister, a homeless addict, amid a vicious killing spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood.

Illustrated by Dani | Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, is plagued by a mysterious illness that eats away at the memories of those affected by it. El and Octavia find themselves victims of this disease after waking up in a movie theater with no memory of the past few hours.

A young Black artist falls into an affair with a man in an open marriage before gradually befriending his wife and adopted daughter against a backdrop of dynamic racial politics.

Translated by Ann Goldstein | Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.

Davis recounts a journey down Colombia's Magdalena River, illuminating the country's rebirth after decades of political violence, drug cartels, and guerrilla warfare.

The former U.S. poet laureate remembers the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and how this profound experience of loss shaped her as an adult and an artist.

Mike and Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate.

There is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, another the story of the life you could have led had you made different choices.

Hong's book blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America.

Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interconnected stories of a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, a foreign correspondent, a Colombian officer, and a militia lieutenant who are all trying to navigate the realities of modern warfare.

Shapland draws on an intimate correspondence between McCullers and a woman named Annemarie to share previously unknown insights into the 20th-century novelist's private life, her approaches to queer fiction, and the influence of her time at Yaddo on her life and work.

Radiant and tender, Zhang's collection examines innocence, asking who gets to be loved like a baby and who must struggle just to survive.

Sok uses fast and chaotic poetry to describe the intergenerational trauma of the Khmer Rouge and the lingering silence among families and communities.

Nancy Reagan gets her hair done while the AIDS epidemic gets ignored.

Fed up with discriminating bosses, an Asian American customer service representative and a talented African American programmer conspire to steal their employer's user database before an unexpected setback exposes a secret double life.

Full Title: The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move | Shah examines how the refugee crises and unusual animal migrations of today can be linked to historical migrations in earlier eras.

Jones blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary in a tale about four American Indian men haunted by a disturbing event from their youth that has left them in a desperate struggle for their lives.

Living in a labyrinthine house of endless corridors, flooded staircases, and thousands of statues, Piranesi assists the dreamlike dwelling's only other resident in a mysterious research project before evidence emerges of an astonishing alternate world.

Diaz explores identity and desire in this mordant and funny collection, which moves seamlessly from the personal to the universal and back again.

Keeping his head down at a lakeside Midwestern university where the culture is in sharp contrast to his Alabama upbringing, an introverted Black biochem student experiences a series of unexpected encounters that bring his orientation and defenses into question.

Illustrated by Rebecca Kirby | This powerful graphic novel adaptation of Gay's bestselling short story "We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness" follows a woman's journey through a world where the sun no longer shines.

With their secret longings, new love, and forbidden affairs, these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, as unfaithful and unrepentant as they care to be, and as free as they deserve to be.

A historical novel featuring Bram Stoker is set during the golden age of West End theater in a London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper.

A young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother succumbs to alcoholism.

When her career is threatened by a red-carpet photo that appears to have romantic undertones, a Hollywood showrunner and her female assistant are targeted by paparazzi before realizing their feelings for each other.

A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina in the 1990s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious stranger who turns out to be a real monster.

Full Title: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz | Drawing on personal diaries, archival documents, and declassified intelligence, Larson examines Winston Churchill's life during the Blitz and his role in uniting England.

Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to meet a star receiver who just might end the civil war or become the city's new oppressive leader.

Eighteen boyfriends, twenty-three jobs, and one ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice: Temporary casts a hilarious and tender eye on the struggle for happiness in late capitalism.

A man on his deathbed reveals that he stole another man's identity decades earlier, traces the family's history from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem, and reconnects with the firstborn daughter he never knew.

Meeting weekly in their retirement village's jigsaw room to exchange theories about unsolved crimes, four savvy septuagenarians propose a daring but unorthodox plan to help a woman rookie cop solve her first big murder case.

A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.

A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home.

An Ivy League–educated DACA beneficiary reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans, from the volunteers recruited for the Ground Zero cleanup after 9/11 to the homeopathy botanicas of Miami that provide limited health care to noncitizens.

A near-future exploration of queer identity, written in the style of a pulp western, finds a woman stowing away to escape her arranged marriage to a man who was once engaged to the late best friend she secretly loved.

Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a Black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.

A powerfully empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis.

A collection of essays about humanity's relationship with nature, exploring subjects ranging from captivity and immigration to ostrich farming and the migrations of songbirds from the Empire State Building.

Hired by her famous podcaster mentor to answer letters from increasingly polarized fans, a librarian who has acquired her education from a lifetime spent reading struggles with the limits of her knowledge and growing crises in the outside world.

Full Title: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments | A collection of essays about the natural world and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.

Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and has spent the last six years working on a novel.

Translated by Helge Dascher | The true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Observing a life of strict submission to minimize discrimination for her mixed heritage, Immanuelle discovers dark truths about her community's church and her late mother's secret relationship with the spirits of four witches.

A collection of stories featuring characters who use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves.