NATIONAL BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE | NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALISTOne of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025**One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2025For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE | NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALISTOne of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025**One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2025For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing....

An Instant Bestseller!"Vibrant and powerful, Ghalen dives deep into the euphoric, heartbreaking, utterly humane story of one fascinating family—populated with the type of characters who don’t usually receive top billing. As always, Mosley tenderly crafted a world so genuine, so poignant, I never wanted to leave.."— Tia Williams, NYT bestselling author of The Missed ConnectionA beautiful coming-of-age novel from MWA G...

**KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.“The pages turn themselves. . . . This Is Where the Serpent Lives is a serious book that you’ll be hearing about again when the shortlists for the big literary prizes are announced.” —The New York Times**Moving fr...

In this sweeping debut novel by NBC News Anchor Morgan Radford, Now Then follows a Harvard student navigating her own path to self-discovery while uncovering her mother’s secret past fleeing the Cuban Revolution.Now — 1991 Cambridge, MA*.* Liliana Soto Walker is an 18-year-old freshman who arrives at Harvard from the humble Appalachian home of her Cuban immigrant mother and Black American father. Lily feels out of place in this ne...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEIn a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own."The Witch is classic NDiaye. Taut, spellbinding and strange, it unfolds with the disturbed logic of a fever dream." —The New York Times"The Witch is Marie NDiaye at her most dazzling. In this simple, startlin...

An Icelandic night may hide secrets and affairs – or even bodies – in this gruesomely cathartic horror thriller from the author of The Night Guest.Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door.When she tracks down the cat’s wayward owner, she finds a young woman just as lost and in need of help. Like a gust of cold air in a Reykjavík night, Ásta and her pet slip into Unnur’s life.It’s un...

**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Book Riot Best Mystery & Thriller of the YearA Marie Claire Best Mystery-Thriller of the YearA Library Journal Stellar SelectionA RUSA 2026 Reading List SelectionThree women in one twisted family race for answers in this striking mystery set in the Mexicali borderlands that "breathes new life into the myth of Persephone and Demeter" (Ana Reyes, author of The House in the...

**"Heady, harrowing, and darkly funny" (The New York Times Book Review), Nerve Damage follows one woman’s quest to escape her stalker ex-boyfriend—by stalking him herself."It’s impossible for a book so chilling, so uncanny, so urgent to also be this funny. Nerve Damage is a major debut.” —Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr!**Clarice’s breakup with P.T. began the usual way—she discovered he was cheating. Then...

Short-listed for the Women’s Prize for FictionFinalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionLong-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA Best Book of the Year: Elle, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, DebutifulA Must-Read: New York, People, NPR, Literary Hub, Jezebel, The Millions, Southern Living, Clarion Ledger

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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."I have a feeling I won’t forget Hana, perpetually running up life’s down escalator, willing to try anything to scrape together a little happiness." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“To read her work is to feel that she is not afraid of anything at all.” —The...

“The best book about adultery since Madame Bovary.” —Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection“Intoxicating.” —The New YorkerA New Yorker, NPR, ELLE, and Esquire Best Book of the YearA hilariously acerbic sliding doors novel about a chance meeting between two young parents, both happily married (just not to each other) that sparks a will-they-won’t-they roma...