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James

A Novel

by Percival Everett

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the ...

What Hunger

by Catherine Dang

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nyugen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for fans of Jennifer's Body and Little Fires ...

Chenneville

A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance

by Paulette Jiles

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Sep 2024

Critics' Consensus:

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the ...

The Ascent

by Adam Plantinga

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2024

Critics' Consensus:

When a high-security prison fails, a down-on-his luck cop and the governor's daughter are going to have to team up if they're going to escape in this "jaw-dropping, authentic, and absolutely gripping" (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling ...

The Flower Sisters

by Michelle Collins Anderson

Paperback: Apr 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention for readers of Kristy Woodson Harvey, Donna Everhart, Sue Monk Kidd, Jeannette Walls, and Rita Mae Brown…

Jack

by Marilynne Robinson

Hardcover: Sep 2020 | Paperback: Apr 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.

Heart of Junk

by Luke Geddes

Hardcover: Jan 2020 | Paperback: Jan 2021

Critics' Consensus:

A hilarious debut novel about an eclectic group of merchants at a Kansas antique mall who become implicated in the kidnapping of a local beauty pageant star.

Heartland

A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Sarah Smarsh

Hardcover: Sep 2018 | Paperback: Sep 2019

Critics' Consensus:

A perfect companion to Evicted and Nickel and Dimed, Heartland reveals one woman's experience of working class poverty with a startlingly observed, eye-opening, and topical personal story.

Savage Country

A Novel

by Robert Olmstead

Hardcover: Sep 2017 | Paperback: Sep 2018

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping narrative of the infamous hunt which drove the buffalo population to near extinction--the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as the only route to economic solvency. And the intimate ...

TransAtlantic

A Novel

by Colum McCann

Hardcover: Jun 2013 | Paperback: May 2014

Critics' Consensus:

The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.

The Chaperone

by Laura Moriarty

Hardcover: Jun 2012 | Paperback: Jun 2013

Critics' Consensus:

A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both.

A Good American

A Novel

by Alex George

Hardcover: Feb 2012 | Paperback: Feb 2013

Critics' Consensus:

An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home.

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