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Dear Monica Lewinsky

A Novel

by Julia Langbein

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid ("I loved it…and have never read anything like it"—Elizabeth Gilbert) comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their ...

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.

The Antidote

A Novel

by Karen Russell

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their ...

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 ...

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.

One of Us

A Novel

by Dan Chaon

Hardcover: Sep 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, from a master of literary horror.

Ecstasy

by Ivy Pochoda

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A deliciously dark horror reimagining of a Greek tragedy, by Ivy Pochoda, winner of the LA Times Book Prize.

Craft

Stories I Wrote for the Devil

by Ananda Lima

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.

Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted

A Novel

by Ben Okri

Hardcover: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class British couples see each other in a new light.

A wise, enchanting novel about love, power, and our many selves—past and future, ...

Held

A Novel

by Anne Michaels

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate

Remarkably Bright Creatures

A Novel

by Shelby Van Pelt

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Debut Award

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

The Bullet Swallower

A Novel

by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, ...

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