Fiction
DEEP SKY
Written by Kitasei, Yume
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. They left Earth to save humanity. They'll have to save themselves first. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse.
MADDALENA AND THE DARK
Written by Fine, Julia
For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Mexican Gothic, a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager "A sumptuous feast of a novel, rich and strange and heady.
SHY
Written by Porter, Max
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.
BEE STING
Written by Murray, Paul
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart. The Barnes family is in trouble.
HANGMAN
Written by Binyam, Maya
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond. In the morning, I received a phone call and was told to board a flight. The arrangements had been made on my behalf. I packed no clothes, because my clothes had been packed for me.
WITNESS: STORIES
Written by Brinkley, Jamel
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken and not taken. What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost?
NO ONE PRAYED OVER THEIR GRAVES
Written by Khalifa, Khaled
From the National Book Award finalist Khaled Khalifa, the story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian village.
VEGAN
Written by Lipstein, Andrew
Andrew Lipstein, the author of Last Resort, challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we'll go to be good.
AUGUST BLUE
Written by Levy, Deborah
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living. At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson--former child prodigy, now in her thirties--walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance.
FORGIVING IMELDA MARCOS
Written by Go, Nathan
Nathan Go's taut meditation on forgiveness and regret is told in the indelible voice of a Filipino chauffeur nearing the end of his life.