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The candy house : a novel
by Jennifer Egan
Told through lives of multiple characters, this electrifying, deeply moving novel, spanning 10 years, follows Own Your Unconscious, a new technology that allows access to every memory youve ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for success to the memories of others. Simultaneous.
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Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
Hired to investigate the black-skied Night City, Detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts discovers an anomaly in the North American Wilderness, where he encounters a strange group of individuals who have all glimpsed a chance to do something extraordinary that could disrupt the timeline of the universe.
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Dr. No : a novel
by Percival Everett
A professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist.
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How high we go in the dark : a novel
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Spanning hundreds of years, a cast of intricately linked characters struggle with the Arctic Plague, an ancient illness accidentally unleashed by researchers investigating the melting permafrost in 2030, which forces humanity to continually reinvent itself to survive. 100,000 first printing.
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Very cold people : a novel
by Sarah Manguso
Growing up in the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, Ruthie, dealing with shame handed down from her immigrant ancestors and her indomitable mother, and violence endured by her high school friends, wonders if shell ever get out of this town alive.
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Lessons in chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of Americas most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
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All this could be different
by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Follows a young Indian American woman who is grappling with graduating into a recession, working a grueling entry-level corporate job and trying to date Marina, a beautiful dancer who always seems just beyond her grasp.
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Trust
by Hernán Díaz
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930s New York City.
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Olga dies dreaming
by Xochitl Gonzalez
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Olga, the tony wedding planner for Manhattans power brokers, must confront the effects of long-held family secrets when she falls in love with Matteo, while other family members must weather their own storms. 300,000 first printing.
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True biz : a novel
by Sara Nović
Taking readers into a residential school for the deaf, this coming-of-age novel follows three peoplea rebellious transfer student, the schools golden boy and the headmistressas they each deal with personal and political crises and find their lives inextricable from one anotherand changed forever.
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The books of Jacob : or, A fantastic journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, not counting the minor sects. Told by the dead, supplemented by the author, drawing from a range of books, and aided by imagination, the which being the greateest natural gift of any person. That the wise might have it for a record, that my compatriots reflect, laypersons gain some understanding, and melancholy souls obtain some slight enjoyment
by Olga Tokarczuk
Set in the mid-18th century, this sweeping novel follows a mysterious, Messianic religious leader as he, traversing the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, reinvents himself again and again and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike. Illustrations.
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Tomb of sand : a novel
by Gītāñjali Śrī
In Northern India, when her grandson brings her a seemingly magical cane to lift her spirits after the death of her husband, 80-year-old Ma, with a new lease on life, embarks on a series of adventures that turn the familys understanding of themselves upside down. 40,000 first printing.
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The rabbit hutch : a novel
by Tess Gunty
Set in the post-industrial Midwest, this story of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom, follows Blandine, who lives with three other teens in a run-down apartment building known as the Rabbit Hutch, as she embarks on a quest for transcendence that culminates in a shocking act of violence. Illustrations.
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If I Survive You
by Jonathan Escoffery
Fleeing to Miami after political violence consumes their native Kingston, a younger son of a Jamaican family, Trelawny, struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism and flat-out bad luck, clawing himself out of homelessness with a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. 100,000 first printing.
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Afterlives
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A young man returns home years after being kidnapped to find his parents gone and his sister basically a slave in a multi-generational saga set during the colonization of east Africa that won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The marriage portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
In Florence during the 1550s, captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici, having barely left girlhood behind, marries the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and now, in an unfamiliar court where she has one dutyto provide an heirfights for her very survival.
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Our wives under the sea
by Julia Armfield
When her wife, a marine biologist, returns home after a disastrous deep-sea mission, Miri, knowing that something is wrong, searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below water and why the woman she loves is drifting away. 50,000 first printing.
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The book of goose
by Yiyun Li
When her friend Fabienne passes away, Agn�s is free to tell her story of a long-ago childhood in a war-ravaged, backwater town along the French countryside where Fabienne hatched a plan that changed everything, sending Agn�s on an epic journey through fame, fortune and terrible loss. 50,000 first printing.
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money wont protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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Night of the living rez
by Morgan Talty
"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty-with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight-breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, whichsets into motion his family's unraveling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's projects the past onto her grandson; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. A collection that examines the consequences and merits of inheritance, Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of an Indigenous community and marks the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction"
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Stories from the tenants downstairs
by Sidik Fofana
This collection of short stories follows each tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyones mind, as they weave in and out of each others lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
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Lucy by the sea : a novel
by Elizabeth Strout
Former married couple now lifelong friends, New Yorkers Lucy Barton and William, as a panicked world goes into lockdown, hunker down in a little house in Maine on the edge of the sea where they are faced with fear, struggles and isolation as well as hope, peace and possibilities.
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Our missing hearts : a novel
by Celeste Ng
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power-and limitations-of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact"
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Seven empty houses
by Samanta Schweblin
Published for the first time in English, an author at the forefront of a new generation of Latin American writers presents seven stories in which seven houses are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories, but something always creeps back in.
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Calling for a blanket dance
by Oscar Hokeah
Follows the life of Ever Geimausaddle, a young Native American, through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face policy corruption, threats of job loss, constant resettlement and the pent up rage of centuries of injustice. 30,000 first printing.
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Now is not the time to panic : a novel
by Kevin Wilson
Twenty years after secretly causing panic in her hometown through the written word and artwork, along with a fellow loner named Zeke, famous author, mom and wife Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that brings her past rushing back, threatening to upend everything. 200,000 first printing.
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The sleeping car porter
by Suzette Mayr
"Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the trainis stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor"
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The seven moons of Maali Almeida : a novel
by Shehan Karunatilaka
"Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida--war photographer, gambler, and closet queen--has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons tocontact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka"
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Haven
by Emma Donoghue
Two monks leave seventh-century Ireland in a boat searching for an isolated spot to found a new monastery, but instead drift out to sea and wind up on a bare, steep island inhabited by thousands of birds. 100,000 first printing.
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Nightcrawling
by Leila Mottley
When a drunken altercation with a stranger turns into a job she desperately needs, Kiara, who supports her brother and an abandoned 9-year-old boy, starts nightcrawling until her name surfaces in an investigation exposing her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department.
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This time tomorrow
by Emma Straub
When Alice wakes up on her 40th birthday somehow back in 1996 as her 16-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the 49-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited, and, armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change given the chance.
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The colony
by Audrey Magee
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders.
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All the lovers in the night
by Mieko Kawakami
A freelance editor in Tokyo finds the strength to change her drab, lonely existence only to have episodes from her past drag her back into old habits, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Breasts and Eggs.
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Love marriage : a novel
by Monica Ali
In training to be a doctor, and engaged to upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother is a famous feminist, 26-year-old Yasmin Ghorami, as the wedding quickly approaches, finds her relationship upended by misunderstandings, infidelities, long-buried-secrets and the truth about her parents supposed love marriage.
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The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilots flight bag, the planes black box and the 10th passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
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The Hero of This Book
by Elizabeth McCracken
After her mothers death, the narrator, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary and even though she wants to respect her mothers nearly pathological sense of privacy, must decide whether chronicling this remarkable life is an act of love or betrayal. 125,000 first printing.
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Dinosaurs : a novel
by Lydia Millet
After walking from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed relationship, Gil discovers new neighbors in the glass-walled house next-door and finds his life meshing with theirs, in the new novel from the author of A Childrens Bible.
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Liberation day : stories
by George Saunders
This brilliant collection of stories, written with the authors trademark prose??wickedly funny, unsentimental and perfectly tuned, encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.
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Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Unsheltered. Simultaneous.
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South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation
by Imani Perry
This intricately woven tapestry of stories of immigrant communities, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes and lived experiences shows the meaning of American is inextricably linked to the Southand understanding its history and culture is the key to understanding our nation as a whole. 150,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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The invisible kingdom : reimagining chronic illness
by Meghan O'Rourke
Drawing on her own medical experiences as well as a decade of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, the author offers a revelatory investigation into the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases that resist easy description or simple cures.
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Ducks : Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, northern lights, and boreal forest. Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.
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The Mosquito Bowl : A Game of Life and Death in World War II
by Buzz Bissinger
This extraordinary, never-before-told story of WWII follows two U.S. Marine Corps regiments, comprised of some of the greatest football talent, as they played each other in a football game in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal known as The Mosquito Bowl before they faced the darkest and deadliest days at Okinawa. 400,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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I'm glad my mom died
by Jennette McCurdy
The iCarly and Sam & Cat star, after her controlling mother dies, gets the help she needs to overcome eating disorders, addiction and unhealthy relationshipsand finally decides what she really wants for the first time in her life. Illustrations.
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
by Isaac Fitzgerald
The founding editor of BuzzFeed Books explores a more expansive vision of masculinity in a series of personal essays that chronicle his journey growing up in a Boston homeless shelter and efforts to take control of his own story. 100,000 first printing.
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The man who could move clouds : a memoir
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of the secretsthe power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick and move the clouds. Illustrations.
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Stay true : a memoir
by Hua Hsu
A New Yorker staff writer, in this gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self and the solace that can be found through art, recounts his close friendship with Ken, with whom he endured the successes and humiliations of everyday college life until Ken was violently, senselessly taken away from him. Illustrations.
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Rogues : true stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks
by Patrick Radden Keefe
The prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author presents twelve of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker that form a deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
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Did ye hear Mammy died? : a memoir
by Séamas O'Reilly
A book about a family of loud, argumentative, musical, sarcastic, grief-stricken siblings, shepherded into adulthood by a man whose foibles and reticence were matched only by his love for his children and his determination that they would flourish.
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The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I
by Lindsey Fitzharris
This real-life wartime medical thriller, showing what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of horror, follows pioneering plastic surgeon Dr. Harold Gillies, who after the First World War, dedicated himself to restoring the broken and burned faces of the injured soldiers under his care. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays
by Barry Holstun Lopez
Written during his final years, a collection of essays from the literary icon and National Book Awardwinning author of Arctic Dreams reveals painful stories from his childhood, details of travels to Antarctica and his life in his own backyard.
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Happy-go-lucky
by David Sedaris
The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring
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Desperate remedies : psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness
by Andrew Scull
"A sweeping history of American psychiatry-from jails to hospitals to the lab to the analyst's couch-by the award-winning author of Madness in Civilization. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind-the sorts of things that were once called "madness"-have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's questto understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past. Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: physicians and psychoanalysts, psychologists, neuroscientists, and therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental hygiene, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Andrew Scull begins with the birth of the asylum in the reformist zeal of the 1830s and carries us through to the latest drug trials and genetic studies. He carefully reconstructs the rise and fall of state-run mental hospitals, showing how the mentally ill went from prisons to asylums back to prisons, and explaining why so many of the mentally ill are now on the street. In his compelling closing chapters, he reveals how drug companies expanded their reach to treat a growing catalog of ills, deliberately concealing debilitating side effects. Deeply researched and compulsively readable, Desperate Remedies is a definitive account of America's long battle with mental illness that challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about who we are and how we think"
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Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe
by David Maraniss
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents a new biography of Americas greatest all-around athlete and gold medal winner who survived racism, alcohol addiction, broken marriages and financial distress to become a myth and a legend. Illustrations.
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Paradise falls : the true story of an environmental catastrophe
by Keith O'Brien
"From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls in the winter of 1977, the town had record snowfalls, and in the spring, rains filled the earth with water like a sponge and the basements of the neighborhood's homes with a pungent odor. It was the sweet, synthetic smell of chemicals. Then, one by one, the children of the more than 800 families that made Love Canal their home started getting very sick. In this propulsive work of narrative reportage, Keith O'Brien uncovers how Lois, Luella, Barbara and other local mothers uncovered the poisonous secret of Love Canal: that they were living on the site where industrial employer Hooker Chemical had been dumping toxic waste for years, and covering it up. O'Brien braids together the previously unknown stories of Hooker Chemical's deception, the local newspapermen and scientists who tried to help, the city officials who didn't, and the heroic women who stood up to corporate and governmental indifference, and-ultimately-triumphed. O'Brien paints a vividly how their dauntless efforts would capture the American imagination at the time and form the foundation of the modernenvironmental movement"
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Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir
by Delia Ephron
The best-selling novelist and screenwriter of Youve Got Mail shares how she got a second chance at love later in life with Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist; her battle with AML with Peter and friends by her side, and her feelings about facing death. 65,000 first printing.
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Tell me everything : the story of a private investigation
by Erika Krouse
In this part memoir, part literary true crime, the author becomes consumed by a sexual assault investigation that grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case, and, when everything around her implodes, she must figure out how to win the case without losing herself. 50,000 first printing.
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In love : a memoir of love and loss
by Amy Bloom
The New York Times best-selling author tells the story of her husbands battle with early onset Alzheimers, their determination to support one another and his eventual decision to end his own life with dignity.
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The nineties
by Chuck Klosterman
Discussing everything nineties, including film, music, sports, TV, politics, changes regarding race and class and sexuality, a New York Times bestselling author shows how this decade brought about a revolution in the human condition that we are still groping to understand,
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Lost & found : a memoir
by Kathryn Schulz
A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize brilliantly explores of the role that loss and discovering play in all of our lives, in this part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief.
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Imagine a city : a pilot's journey across the urban world
by Mark Vanhoenacker
A commercial airline pilot and writer shares and expansive travelogue of his two decades crossing the skies of our planet and touching down in dozens of the storied cities he imagined as a child. Illustrations.
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We carry their bones : the search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys
by Erin H. Kimmerle
After the Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse and mysterious deaths, a leading forensic anthropologist, attempting to reunite lost boys with their families, finds herself threatened by those who wanted to keep the truth buried forever. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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In sensorium : notes for my people
by Tanaïs
A writer and performer presents a memoir focused on the history of perfumes and how they have been used to mark the differences between the civilized and the barbaric and the pure and polluted.
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And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
by Jon Meacham
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer examines life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and how he navigated the crises of slavery, secession and war by both marshaling the power of the presidency while recognizing its limitations. Illustrations.
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The revolutionary : Samuel Adams
by Stacy Schiff
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns her attention to Samuel Adams, an intensely disciplined manand arguably the most essential Founding Father who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution, becoming the most wanted man in America. 750,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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The Song of the Cell : An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, drawing on his own experience as a researcher, doctor and prolific reader, explores medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Illustrations.
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Inciting joy : essays
by Ross Gay
"A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"
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Getting lost
by Annie Ernaux
"Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying "his desire for me is theonly thing I can be sure of." She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire"
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