Exceptional novels for adults written from a child's perspective

Porcupines

A Novel

by Fran Fabriczki

Hardcover: Apr 2026

A fresh and witty debut about a young immigrant mother and her increasingly inquisitive daughter, who wakes up one day and decides to find out who her father is.

Sisters in Yellow

A Novel

by Mieko Kawakami

Hardcover: Mar 2026

From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s.

A Bad, Bad Place

by Frances Crawford

Hardcover: Mar 2026

A dazzling debut mystery about a young girl and her grandmother grappling with the fallout of an unexplained murder in 1979 Glasgow,

The Pretender

A Novel

by Jo Harkin

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

A sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell set during the time of the Tudors' ascent. The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to ...

Mother Mary Comes to Me

by Arundhati Roy

Hardcover: Sep 2025

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as...

Mina's Matchbox

A Novel

by Yoko Ogawa

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.

A Short Walk Through a Wide World

A Novel

by Douglas Westerbeke

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2025

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.

The Capital of Dreams

A Novel

by Heather O'Neill

Hardcover: Jan 2025

From the hugely acclaimed author beloved by literary lights, including Emily St. John Mandel, Kelly Link, and Mona Awad, a dark dystopian fairytale about an idyllic country ravaged by war—and a girl torn between safety and loyalty.

A Council of Dolls

A Novel

by Mona Susan Power

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.

The Reformatory

A Novel

by Tananarive Due

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Sep 2024

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

Promise

A Novel

by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Hardcover: Jul 2023 | Paperback: Aug 2024

Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in this "magical, magnificent novel" (Marlon James) from "a startlingly fresh voice" (...

The History of a Difficult Child

A Novel

by Mihret Sibhat

Hardcover: Jun 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2024

A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution