Today brings new novels from a wide circle of accomplished writers, including Yiyun Li, Bonnie Garmus, M. John Harrison, Will Maclean, and many more—an excellent sign of a robust season for fiction. Nonfiction voices like Adam Grant, Lauren Michele Jackson, and Wendy S. Walters also add fresh perspectives, creating a rich lineup for readers to explore. Scroll through the full list below and dive in.
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Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck
(Scribner)
“This novel is a fusion of romance, office caper, and a tender satire that carries a soft spot for typography and poetry—and it’s for readers who can’t live without it.”
–Oprah Daily
Yiyun Li, Music Against the Night
(FSG)
“Music Against the Night may stand as the most exquisitely crafted, moving, and gorgeous novel I’ve ever encountered. Yiyun Li represents the best of us all.”
–Ann Patchett
Joy Harjo, Cloud Runner: Poems
(W. W. Norton)
“This may be her most striking collection to date.”
M. John Harrison, The End of Everything
(Riverhead)
“Harrison isn’t merely odd; he’s exceptional. Reading The End of Everything feels less like reading and more like dreaming.”
–The Telegraph
Lauren Michele Jackson, Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America
(Amistad)
“Back spans a breadth that is immense—physical, surprising, and cinematic in scale.”
–Raven Leilani
Will Maclean, Solace House
(Grove)
“Original, mind-bending, and wickedly entertaining.”
–Kirkus
Wendy S. Walters, A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint
(Scribner)
“Part polemic, part meditation, shifting between the personal and philosophical, and altogether original, this is the rare critique that will alter how you view the world around you.”
–Meghan O’Rourke
Kat Dunn, Rottenheart
(Zando)
“A darkly intoxicating, fiercely queer retelling of Hamlet, pulsing with longing, fury, and sorrow.”
–Lucy Rose
Adam Grant, Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World
(Viking)
“A thorough exploration of how friendship, companionship, and affection operate. Each page sheds light, and the world needs this book now more than ever.”
Elizabeth Hand, Unspeakable Things
(Little Brown)
“Hand crafts sensory, evocative details that feel both seductive and eerie.”
–The New Yorker
Erica Lust, Lust: Pleasure, Performance, Power
(Metropolitan)
“A sharp, authoritative, and provocative blend of erotic discussion, memoir, and scholarly discourse.”
–Kirkus
Elizabeth Kostova, Mystery Play
(Ballantine)
“A spine-tingling, supernatural slow-burn thriller that casts its own eerie spell on readers.”
–Library Journal
Amanda FitzSimons, American Girl: How a Billion-Dollar Doll and Its Unlikely Founder Changed Girlhood Forever
(Atria)
“The book is utterly inhalable.”
Lieke Marsman, trans. by Sophie Collins, On Another Planet They Can Save Me
(Catapult)
“A brilliant shock of a work: poetic, philosophical, and deeply embracing change, nuance, imagination, and delight.”
–Sasha Dugdale
Julie Orringer, Luna, Phoenix, Queen
(Knopf)
“Julie Orringer stands among our wisest and most generous writers; this novel filled me with joy and wonder.”
Richard Cooke, The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia
(W. W. Norton)
“Cooke leaves no corner unexplored, delivering a broad, eye-opening, and entertaining tour of the strange and wonderful universe of Wikipedia.”
–Library Journal
Nneoma Ike-Njoku, The Water House
(Summit)
“The prose is starkly beautiful, impressionistic, and dreamlike.”
–Kirkus
Saul Justin Newman, Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science
(MIT Press)
“A philosophical, wide-ranging and lucid examination of some of the intellectual foundations of longevity science.”
Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Spirits
(W. W. Norton)
“Campbell’s prose is rapturous and nearly Shakespearean as she conjures storms of vengeance and sorrow that eventually give way to truth’s luminous glow.”
–Booklist
Kim Ghattas, The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America’s Undoing in the Middle East
(Holt)
“A remarkable achievement. Ghattas pulls you into a murder mystery and, layer by layer, reveals the tangled complexity of the ongoing Middle East conflicts.”
–Kai Bird
