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All Flesh

A Novel

by Ananda Devi

Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A ticking bomb of teenage savagery that blows the hypocrisies and prejudice of society to smithereens.

Twist

A Novel

by Colum McCann

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin.

Theft

A Novel

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.

Scale Boy

An African Childhood

by Patrice Nganang

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa―complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.

Cape Fever

A Novel

by Nadia Davids

Hardcover: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the secrets of its enigmatic owner.

Before the Mango Ripens

by Afabwaje Kurian

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for belonging. Both epic and intimate, Afabwaje Kurian'...

Masquerade

by O.O. Sangoyomi

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go to secure her future.

The Creation of Half-Broken People

A Novel

by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Paperback: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University's Windham–Campbell Prize.

A Calamity of Noble Houses

by Amira Ghenim

Hardcover: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A finalist for the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a compelling saga of two families that illuminates the lives of women in modern Tunisia.

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

A Novel

by Shubnum Khan

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

"A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous

The Rest of You

by Maame Blue

Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

An internationally award-winning writer makes her triumphant American debut in this emotionally powerful story—a potent blend of Queenie and The Vanishing Half—about a woman's journey to uncover a foundational family secret from the ...

The Message

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hardcover: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don't—shape our realities.

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