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A Novel
by Kaveh Akbar
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by Adam Ross
Published Feb 2026
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by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Published Nov 2025
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by Sam Sax
Published Sep 2025
Read ReviewsIn between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant.
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
by Ruben Reyes
Published Jul 2025
Read ReviewsAn electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.
by Jess Row
Published Jul 2024
Read ReviewsA globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row
by Louise Erdrich
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsIn this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
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