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Good Girl

A Novel

by Aria Aber

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can't escape its history.

A girl can get in ...

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel

Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

by Douglas Brunt

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I - this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel.

Fatherland

A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

by Burkhard Bilger

Hardcover: May 2023 | Paperback: Jun 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain).

Winter Work

A novel

by Dan Fesperman

Hardcover: Jul 2022 | Paperback: Dec 2023

Critics' Consensus:

An exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wall - from the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife

Cradles of the Reich

A Novel

by Jennifer Coburn

Hardcover: Oct 2022 | Paperback: Jul 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race.

The Berlin Exchange

A Novel

by Joseph Kanon

Hardcover: Feb 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From "master of the genre" (the Washington Post) Joseph Kanon, an espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is swapped by the British and returns to East Berlin needing to know who ...

The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin

by Kip Wilson

Hardcover: Mar 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2023

Critics' Consensus:

A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, a former orphan, who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II and discovers her own voice and sexuality and finds a family when she gets a job at a cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson.

The Great Passion

by James Runcie

Hardcover: Mar 2022 | Paperback: Feb 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.

Those Who Forget

My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning

by Géraldine Schwarz

Hardcover: Sep 2020 | Paperback: Sep 2022

Critics' Consensus:

Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism...

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

by Rivka Galchen

Hardcover: Jun 2021 | Paperback: Jun 2022

Critics' Consensus:

The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.

Perfection

by Vincenzo Latronico

Paperback: Mar 2022

Critics' Consensus:

A scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.

The Pages

A novel

by Hugo Hamilton

Hardcover: Feb 2022

Critics' Consensus:

An entirely original novel in which a book - Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion - narrates its own astonishing life story, from 1930s Germany to the present day, at the heart of a gripping mystery.

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