Books set primarily in Arizon, New Mexico, Nevada or Utah

I Am Agatha

A Novel

by Nancy Foley

Hardcover: Mar 2026

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Sigrid Nunez, a darkly funny and moving debut novel about the unforgettable Agatha, whose devotion to a widow with dementia (and an inconvenient attachment to her daughter's grave) sparks a radical reckoning with ...

Moderation

A Novel

by Elaine Castillo

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

A bold and inventive novel about real romance in the virtual workplace—​bringing Castillo's trademark wit and sharp cultural criticism to an irresistible story about the possible future of love.

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A Novel

by Rita Bullwinkel

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

An electrifying debut novel from an "unusually gifted writer" (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition

Dinosaurs

A Novel

by Lydia Millet

Hardcover: Oct 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2023

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between ...

We Are Not Free

by Traci Chee

Hardcover: Sep 2020 | Paperback: Mar 2022

"All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us.
We are not free.
But we are not alone."

The Distant Dead

by Heather Young

Hardcover: Jun 2020 | Paperback: Aug 2021

A young boy finds himself at the center of a murder mystery in this timely and twisty thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Lost Girls - a compelling and indelible story set in small town America that examines the burden of guilt, the bitter ...

The Lightness of Hands

by Jeff Garvin

Hardcover: Apr 2020 | Paperback: Aug 2021

A quirky and heartfelt coming-of-age story about a teen girl with bipolar II who signs her failed magician father up to perform his legendary but failed illusion on live TV in order to make enough money to pay for the medications they need - from the...

Paradise, Nevada

by Dario Diofebi

Hardcover: Apr 2021

From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive political tensions behind the deceptive, spectacular, endlessly self-reinventing city of Las Vegas.

Inland

by Téa Obreht

Hardcover: Aug 2019 | Paperback: May 2020

The New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with a stunning tale of perseverance - an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape of magic and myth.

The Magnificent Esme Wells

by Adrienne Sharp

Hardcover: Apr 2018 | Paperback: Apr 2019

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl - the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl - growing ...

The Atomic Weight of Love

by Elizabeth Church

Hardcover: May 2016 | Paperback: Mar 2017

In the spirit of The Aviator's Wife and Loving Frank, this resonant debut spans the years from World War II through the Vietnam War to tell the story of a woman whose scientific ambition is caught up in her relationships with two very different men.

The Never-Open Desert Diner

by James Anderson

Hardcover: Mar 2016 | Paperback: Nov 2016

A singularly compelling debut novel, about a desert where people go to escape their past, and a truck driver who finds himself at risk when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.