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The Slip

A Novel

by Lucas Schaefer

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.

Atmosphere

A Love Story

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love ...

El Paso

Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

by Jazmine Ulloa

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town.

Model Home

A Novel

by Rivers Solomon

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.

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, ...

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 ...

His Name Is George Floyd

One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: May 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy - from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, ...

Perish

A Novel

by LaToya Watkins

Hardcover: Aug 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed.

The Consequences

Stories

by Manuel Munoz

Paperback: Oct 2022

Critics' Consensus:

Shimmering stories set in California's Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer.

Yolk

by Mary Choi

Hardcover: Mar 2021 | Paperback: Mar 2022

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they'll go to save one of their lives - even if it means swapping identities.

Nights When Nothing Happened

by Simon Han

Hardcover: Nov 2020 | Paperback: Nov 2021

Critics' Consensus:

From the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn't this what ...

Memorial

by Bryan Washington

Hardcover: Oct 2020 | Paperback: Oct 2021

Critics' Consensus:

What happens when a love story collides with the limits of love--and everyone has an opinion?

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