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All Flesh

A Novel

by Ananda Devi

Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A ticking bomb of teenage savagery that blows the hypocrisies and prejudice of society to smithereens.

Vanishing World

by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by ...

The Witch

A Novel

by Marie NDiaye

Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In a small French town, a mediocre witch trapped in a cruel marriage cries watery tears of blood as she passes on her gifts to her twin daughters, who soon must make a choice: stay close to the nest and the mother who nourished them, or soar away ...

Only a Little While Here

A Novel

by María Ospina

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds.

We Do Not Part

A Novel

by Han Kang

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Han Kang's most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter of Korean history.

The Secret of Snow

A Novel

by Tina Harnesk

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

This lyrical runaway Swedish hit follows a reclusive, elderly couple who cross paths with a pair of twentysomething newcomers in a small mountain town, revealing an unexpected, shared history and the reclamation of a nearly extinct culture.

Autobiography of Cotton

A Novel

by Cristina Rivera Garza

Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning.

The Night Guest

by Hildur Knútsdóttir

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that's sure to keep you awake at night.

Beasts of the Sea

A Novel

by Iida Turpeinen

Hardcover: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In the spirit of Richard Powers and Daniel Mason, a novel spanning three centuries and tied together by the tale of Steller's sea cow—a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans—at once intimate and sweeping about the tragic clash ...

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A Novel

by Sacha Bronwasser

Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A twisty, slow-burn mystery set in Paris and the Netherlands that has become a Dutch sensation.

Cécé

by Emmelie Prophète

Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti.

The Empusium

A Health Resort Horror Story

by Olga Tokarczuk

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.

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