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Room on the Sea

Three Novellas

by Andre Aciman

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Three hypnotic novellas about obsessional love, missed connections, and enduring regret by the bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name.

Baby in a Box

Stories

by Sarah Braunstein

Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Prescient and idiosyncratic stories about the cost and joys of caretaking from a "sharp-witted, ravishing" (New York Times) writer.

Python's Kiss

Stories

by Louise Erdrich

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories.

A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe

by Mahogany L. Browne

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of interconnected prose, poems and stories, teen characters, their families, and their communities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst fear and loss, these New York City teens prevail with ...

I Am the Ghost Here

Stories

by Kim Samek

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Twelve women confront the mounting existential terrors of modernity—climate change, unbridled capitalism and greed, an entertainment industry that will go to surreal lengths to stay relevant—in this debut story collection set in a ...

Brawler

Stories

by Lauren Groff

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our time.

Every One Still Here

Stories

by Liadan Ní Chuinn

Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A searching, incisive, and profound debut collection of stories about people―mothers, fathers, sons, strangers, sisters―living in the aftermath of violence.

The Age of Calamities

Stories

by Senaa Ahmad

Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Written by an inimitable new voice, The Age of Calamities is a genre-defying, mind-bending collection of absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories.

Good and Evil and Other Stories

by Samanta Schweblin

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A haunting, unforgettable collection of tales by Samanta Schweblin, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature and three-time Booker Prize finalist.

Where Are You Really From

Stories

by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling.

The Dime Museum

A Novel in Stories

by Joyce Hinnefeld

Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Hinnefeld's web of characters are bound by legacies, genes, philanthropy, and chance but gravitate largely around Charlie, a rich, white, college graduate who ends up in Venice.

Rejection

Fiction

by Tony Tulathimutte

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens ("the first great millennial novel," New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and ...

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