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An Oral History of Atlantis

Stories

by Ed Park

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A deadpan, wildly imaginative collection of stories that slices clean through the mundanity and absurdity of modern life, from the author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed Different Dreams.

Flashlight

A Novel

by Susan Choi

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.

Deathly Fates

by Tesia Tsai

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping debut inspired by the Chinese folk practice of necromancy, Deathly Fates is perfect for fans of Descendant of the Crane, The Bone Shard Daughter, and A Magic Steeped in Poison.

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 ...

Sisters in Yellow

A Novel

by Mieko Kawakami

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s.

Under Water

A Novel

by Tara Menon

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An intense, atmospheric novel about the devastating power of friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic events.

This Is Where the Serpent Lives

by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A stunning first novel from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Palaver

A Novel

by Bryan Washington

Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Oct 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington.

Bad Bad Girl

A Novel

by Gish Jen

Hardcover: Oct 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.

A Guardian and a Thief

A Novel

by Megha Majumdar

Hardcover: Oct 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two ...

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

A Novel

by Kiran Desai

Hardcover: Sep 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss.

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.

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