At this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben, Patti Callahan Henry, Rob Franklin, Amy Tan, and many more. We will continue to update this list of rights on offer at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair through the fair's opening on October 16. Submissions can be sent in using our Google form, or emailed to our editors here. (Please note that the listings are open to U.S. literary agencies only, with a limit of four titles per agency).
Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency
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Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben (Grand Central, Fall 2025). The first collaborative novel by Oscar-winning actor, producer, New York Times bestselling author and Reese’s Book Club/Hello Sunshine founder Reese Witherspoon and # 1 international bestselling author and TV creator Harlan Coben. Rights sold: German (Goldmann)
BookEnds Literary Agency
■ The Deathless One
Emma Hamm (Gallery, August 2025). The first in a dark romantasy series, following a recently murdered princess and the god of death who brings her back to life, and who must learn to work together to save her kingdom’s people from a looming fate far worse than they imagined.
■ Firebird
Juliette Cross (Bramble, April 2025). The first in a dark romantasy trilogy set in a reimagined ancient Roman Empire where emperors may govern but dragons rule.
■ The Next Chapter
Camille Kellogg (Dial, June 2025). A queer homage to Notting Hill, in which a butch bookseller has a meet-cute with a famous actor, who just so happens to need a starter girlfriend to establish her new branding as a Queer Icon.
■ The Wish Switch
Lynn Painter (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, May 2025). The New York Times bestselling author's middle grade debut about a girl who realizes her magical wishes are coming true—but for the annoying new boy on her block and not for her, and the two must work together to set things right before the wishes upend both of their lives.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
■ Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, May 2025; UK: offer pending). Viva Morales and Twilly Spree are plunged into a mystery—involving dark money and darker motives—that will lead them into the depths of Florida: a sun-soaked bastion of right-wing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption. Another instant classic from multiple-bestselling Carl Hiaasen—laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture.
■ Go Gentle
Maria Semple (on submission). A romance with wit, a page-turner of ideas, a globe-trotting mother-daughter story, with another hilarious and unforgettable heroine, by the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette.
■ Trade Secrets: The Untold Story of How America Exchanges Prisoners with Vladimir Putin.
Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw (Harper, 2025). From The Wall Street Journal reporters Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw, Trade Secrets follows the exceptional coverage of their colleague Evan Gershkovich’s kidnapping and detainment in Russia as a narrative nonfiction spy thriller.
The Charlotte Gusay Literary Agency
■ Afropessimism
Frank Wilderson III (W.W. Norton, 2020). A "growing up" memoir with the author's own unerring poetic interpretation of critical race theory arriving at the truth that without anti-Blackness there would be no America. Stunning. Long listed for the National Book Award.
■ Kingdom of No Tomorrow
Fabienne Josaphat (Algonquin/Hachette/Little, Brown, December 2024). A young Haitian medical student moves to Oakland California in the 1970s and joins the Black Panthers and falls in love-- the inside story of the Black Panthers from a young woman's point of view. PEN America Bell/Wether Awardee.
■ A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death & Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin's Press, 2023). An Edgar nominee 2024, Dawidziak pin points how Poe so mysteriously died and revises his life story.
■ Walking in the Sacred Manner.
Mark St. Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier (Simon & Schuster 1995; Touchstone Edition, 2021). The spiritual Power and Legacy of American Plains Women, myths and culture where the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined. Tilda Long Soldier is full-blood Lakota Sioux Indian.
Copps Literary Services
■ Dead Girls Walking
Sami Ellis (Abrams, March 2024) About a serial killer's daughter working as a camp counselor at a queer all-girls sleepaway camp—and the copycat killer stalking the girls.
■ Reclaimed
Seth Haddon (Blind Eye Books, October 2024) A steamy romantasy about a scholar accused of murder, and the man tasked with arresting him, as they try to prevent a plot jeopardizing the fate of magic.
■ Third Rule of Time Travel
Philip Fracassi (Orbit US & UK, March 2025) about a scientist who discovers a way for human consciousness to travel through time and relive moments of their life, but after one fateful experiment returns to find her reality altered to a horrifying extent.
■ Volatile Memory
Seth Haddon (Tor, Jan. 2025) a sapphic novella in which a scavenger whose theft of a high-tech mask imbued with a dead woman's consciousness forces them both to confront questions of identity while falling in love, evading capture, and racing to find an ex-husband for revenge.
Craig Literary Agency
■ Bitter Honey
Lọlá Ákínmádé (William Morrow, Sept. 2025). The third novel by best-selling author of In Every Mirror She’s Black spans four decades and three continents, telling the story of mothers and daughters, and the importance of carving your own path. Nancy is a Gambian immigrant to 1978 Sweden, and her daughter Tina becomes a pop star in 2005 L.A.
■ Home Is Where We Start: Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream
Susanna Crossman (Fig Tree/Penguin UK, Aug. 2024). This luminous memoir, widely acclaimed in the UK and serialized in the Guardian, asks what happens to children who are raised as the product of social experiments and explores how growing up estranged from the outside world shapes the author as a parent today.
■ The Seers
Sulaiman Addonia (Coffee House Press, April 2025). In a single, gripping, continuous paragraph, moves between past and present, Eritrea and London, to paint a surreal and sensual portrait of one life among thousands. For Hannah, caught between worlds in the endless bureaucracy of immigration, the West is both savior and abuser, refuge from and original cause of harm, seeking always to shape her—but never succeeding in suppressing her voice.
■ We Are Not Numbers
This unique anthology (Hutchinson Heinemann/Penguin UK, April 2025) collects a decade of personal essays by young writers of Gaza, giving rare and intimate insight into the human impact of occupation, blockade, airstrikes; and showing what has changed over the last ten years, and what has not. We Are Not Numbers (WANN) is a youth storytelling project co-founded in 2015 by Pam Bailey from the United States and Ahmed Alnaouq from Gaza, offering direct access to the Palestinian narrative through the eyes of the next generation, without any restrictions imposed by foreign intermediaries.
Curtis Brown Ltd. New York
■ The Extinction of Irena Rey
Jennifer Croft (Bloomsbury, March 2024). From the International Booker Prize-winning translator comes an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Contact: kschulze@cbltd.com
■ A Great Marriage
Frances Mayes (Ballantine, August 2024). When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people - and their families - reeling, in this poignant novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun.
■ The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett (Ballantine, June 2025). A hilarious and warm-hearted novel about starting over, featuring an eccentric older man who embarks on a road trip with the most unexpected companions to reunite with his high school sweetheart - from the beloved author of "Rabbit Cake" and "Unlikely Animals".
■ Your Soulmail is Attached
Joan F. Smith (Graydon House, 2026). A mix of The Morning Show meets The Measure, this riveting speculative fiction about what happens when everyone in the world receives an email with the name of their soulmate, and the young news anchor who becomes the face of this strange phenomenon when her impromptu report unexpectedly goes viral.
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
■ The Bright Years
Sarah Damoff (Simon & Schuster, April 2025). A debut novel following a family torn apart by alcoholism and long-held secrets—and redeemed by love.
■ The Macabre
Kosoko Jackson (Voyager, Sept. 2025). A horror novel following a painter with prophetic abilities who must assist The British Museum's Cursed Antiquities Department in hunting down a collection of paintings with horrific magical capabilities, all while navigating geopolitical consequences, a 150-year-old curse, and an immortal nun.
■ The Rabbit Club
Christopher J. Yates (Hanover Square Press, July 2025). A novel of dark academia about a dangerous secret society at Oxford University, and the first-year Literature student whose life begins to unravel in its shadows
■ We Don’t Talk About Carol
Kristen L. Berry (Bantam, Summer 2025). A debut novel about one woman's search for her aunt who went missing in the 1960s as she embarks on her own journey with motherhood and discovers what it really means for blood to be thicker than water.
Focused Artists
■ Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care
Tara Pringle Jefferson (Amistad, 2025). Jefferson puts Black women at the forefront of the wellness conversation.
■ Digital Wellbeing
Petra Velzeboer (Kogan Page, 2025). Find balance in a digital life and improve personal wellbeing with fascinating insights and practical tips.
■ In a League of Her Own: Celebrating Female Firsts in Sports
Bonnie-Jill Laflin (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). Laflin, the first female to be awarded six championship rings in two professional sports, shares the stories of women who achieved record-breaking accomplishments in coaching, agenting, the Olympics, on the court, on the field and more.
■ Momentum
Lee Chambers (Kogan Page, 2025). Modern working culture has become defined by burnout and fatigue, but there is an alternative: build Momentum and rediscover the joy of leading a rewarding and satisfying career.
Frances Goldin Literary Agency
■ At the Bottom of Everything: Conor Oberst and Our Dystopian Digital Age
Emma Kemp (Grand Central, Winter 2026). The first and only authorized biography of the earnest yet enigmatic indie-rock star Conor Oberst, frontman of Bright Eyes and Desaparecidos—a dramatic, intimate narrative opening a portal into the unhinged decades of millennials’ coming-of-age. Rights sold: UK (Jonathan Cape).
■ Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift
Kristie Frederick Daugherty (Ballantine, December 2024). An anthology of brand-new poems inspired by Taylor Swift songs, from a powerhouse group of contemporary poets, including Kate Baer, Maggie Smith, Yusef Komunyakaa, Diane Seuss, and Joy Harjo. Swifties will experience the profundity and nuance of Swift’s lyrics through these poems, while having fun matching the poems to songs from all of her eras—vault tracks included! Rights sold: UK (Headline).
■ It’s Hard to be An Animal
Robert Isaacs (Grand Central, Spring 2026). An upmarket love story and cozy mystery about a man who wakes up to find he can hear the voice of every animal in New York City, and it’s all fun and games until he overhears three rats discussing a corpse in the subway. Rights sold: Germany (Ullstein), Hungary (General Press).
■ The Wiregrass: A Tale of Murder and Retribution
Matt Kessler (Grand Central, Spring 2026). A vital and propulsive true crime narrative of corruption, injustice, and two young women’s murder in a little-known corner of the American Deep South, by an Alabamian journalist and student of Maggie Nelson and Percival Everett, who has spent seven years investigating the tangled case. Rights sold: UK (Penguin Michael Joseph).
Full Bleed Rights
■ Adrift on a Painted Sea
Tim Bird (Avery Hill, 2024). A poignant, thoughtful graphic memoir of comics panels and oil landscapes that explores family, loss, and art through the author’s relationship with his mother, a prolific hobbyist painter.
■ Boy Island
Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket, 2024). With art reminiscent of Michael DeForge, a fantastical transgender fable from the 2024 Ignatz Award-winning author of Prokaryote Season.
■ Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes
Jon Macy (Street Noise Books, 2024). A graphic biography of a forgotten writer, artist, and queer radical of the Lost Generation in the Roaring 20s, self-described as "the most famous unknown of the century."
■ Superpunk
Mirtes Santana and Guilherme Petreca (Pipoca e Nanquim, Brazil, 2024). Like a wholesome Scott Pilgrim or Kick-Ass, a 13-year-old girl saves her school and family from possession by an evil spirit with the help of her magic Walkman and punk music.
Fuse Literary via Baror International
■ Firebred
Julie Kagawa (Disney Hyperion, 2025). Book Two in the Storm Dragons MG fantasy series sees Remy, Gem, and Storm join the pirate crew of the Queen's Blade to find a True Dragon and save the kingdom from falling into the maelstrom.
■ A Good Indian Girl
Mansi Shah (Park Row Books, 2024). Commercial women’s fiction chosen by the Lilly’s Library and Women’s World book clubs following an Indian woman’s Eat, Pray, Love summer in Italy as she must choose between family acceptance, a fulfilling career, and even motherhood.
■ The King Must Die
Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga Press, 2025). A science fiction action/adventure following the daughter of imprisoned rebel instigators and a techromancer prince as they forge an uneasy alliance against a power-drunk ruler.
■ Tonight, I Bleed
Katharine J. Adams (Orbit, 2025). Book 2 in The Witches of Halstett queer fantasy series sees Penny choose between the friends she loves and the coven of witches she belongs to as a magical war looms that could tear the world apart.
Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents (via Andrew Nurnberg Associates)
■The Jackal’s Mistress
Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday, Mar 2025). In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger.
■ The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature
Alan Lightman (Pantheon, Nov. 2024). A gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena—from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxies, and more.
■ South of Nowhere
Jeffery Deaver (Putnam, May 2025). The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV and featuring Justin Hartley, as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in the plain sight.
■ We Are Watching
Alison Gaylin (William Morrow, Jan. 2025). A slick, riveting, and all-too-plausible tale of psychological suspense where a mother is desperate to protect her family as they become targets of a group of violent conspiracy theorists.
Ginger Clark Literary
■ Eleven Houses
Colleen Oakes (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2024). Twilight meets The Mist in this epic romantic tale of a mysterious island and the houses who have stood for centuries to guard against the dreaded nightmare of beings waiting to strike from the ocean’s depths.
■ This Monster of Mine
Shalini Abeysekara (Union Square & Co., 2025). A dark Ancient Rome-inspired adult romantasy in which a young woman with the magical ability to detect lies battles political corruption and forbidden love as she seeks vengeance for her own attempted murder.
The Grayhawk Agency
■ The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth
Veeraporn Nitiprapha (River Books, 2019). A poignant yet beautiful love story of two sisters who falls in love with the same man, entangled in the labyrinth of their deepest desires, in the exotic city of Bangkok.
■ The Suncake Pastry Shop
Kuang Feng (Gaea, 2019). A coming-of-age story about an aimless college graduate searching for his true belonging while working at his great uncle's pastry shop in Taiwan and reflecting on the bittersweet memories of a girl he met in a Kyoto pastry shop—an encounter that ultimately changes the course of his life.
■ Taiwan Travelogue
Yáng Shuang-zi (Graywolf, 2024). A bittersweet story between two women, where this unlikely pair explores how power dynamics inflect the most intimate relationships over scenic train rides and braised pork rice.
■ A Week Before I Die
Seo Eun-chae (Goldenbough, 2018). A Korean romance about a girl who reunites with her childhood crush–now the Grim Reaper–six years after his death, and spends her final week together.
Jane Rotrosen Agency
■ Boudicca
PC Cast (William Morrow, January 2025). With shades of romantasy and mythical retelling, #1 NYT bestselling author PC Cast reimagines the story of the enigmatic warrior woman who took on the Roman Empire.
■ The Business Trip
Jessie Garcia (St. Martin’s Press, January 2025). Two strangers from vastly different backgrounds end up on the same plane together. When they land and go their separate ways, their loved ones begin receiving the same strange, erratic messages before both women disappear.
■ The Crash
Freida McFadden (Sourcebooks, January 2025). A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, as a pregnant woman escaping her past runs straight into her worst nightmare, trapped and held against her will in the midst of a blinding blizzard.
■ The Story She Left Behind
Patti Callahan Henry (Atria, March 2025). A sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both, inspired by a true literary mystery.
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
■ Sheepdogs
Elliot Ackerman (Knopf, 2025). The bestselling author introduces an instantly iconic spy duo, Skwerl and Cheese, in a sly, funny, uniquely perceptive action-packed thriller, full of heart and humor.
■ This Story Might Save Your Life
Tiffany Crum (Pine & Cedar Books/Flatiron, 2025). A gripping thriller with the soul of an epic love story. Best friends Benny and Joy like to say that they’ve been saving each other’s lives since the moment they met. Until the day Joy disappears, and Benny is accused of her murder. Rights sold: UK (Hodder), Finland (Publiva), French in Canada (Saint Jean Editeur), Germany (Rowohlt), Italy (Piemme), Israel (Yedioth), Netherlands (Meulenhoff Boekerij), Russian (Azbooka-Atticus), Sweden (Lavender Lit).
■ The Stuntman
Sarah Manguso (Hogarth, 2025). An erotic novel about aging, obsession, and freedom that follows Kate, a divorced single mother approaching menopause, who unexpectedly becomes a libertine during the golden age of dating apps. Rights sold: UK (Hodder)
■ Havens
Vanessa Ogle (Viking). A groundbreaking history of tax havens and their influence, with profound implications for our understanding of politics and economics of today. Rights sold: UK (Penguin Press).
Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency
■ Bad Kid
Sofia Szamosi (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, January 2026). A starkly drawn graphic memoir in which the author recounts her experiences as a young girl shuffled through the Troubled Teen industry in the 2000s, exploring how damaging labels can be—from Good Kid to Bad Kid—and how they shape our choices throughout our lives.
■ The Book of Lost Hours
Hayley Gelfuso (Atria, Aug. 2025). Evoking the love story and touch of magic in All The Light We Cannot See and The Midnight Library, an expansive, time-jumping novel following the child of a German Jewish watchmaker who finds herself trapped in a mysterious place called the time space, where she walks like a shadow among the dead through memories of the past, and where living timekeepers are entering intent on destroying memories in order to maintain a version of history they deem to be best.
■ The Meathead Method
Meathead (Harvest, May 2025). After nearly 10 years, Meathead, the BBQ Hall of Famer and New York Times bestselling author of Meathead, is back with The Meathead Method a guide to the science of great barbecue, grilling, griddling, and more with the latest, cutting-edge science, more myth busting, and best techniques to elevate your outdoor cooking with 110 recipes.
■ Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell
Gillian French (Minotaur, June 2025). A taut, atmospheric thriller from Edgar Award-finalist young adult author Gillian French, about a fingerprint analyst who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance, even taking disturbing phone calls from a man who all but claims to have committed the crime.
Jill Grinberg Literary Management
■ Doctored
Charles Piller (One Signal/Simon & Schuster, February 2025). In the vein of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, revealing the shocking story of how the cure for Alzheimer’s has been set back for decades by corrupt scientists, negligent regulators, and the profit motives of Big Pharma—and how one young neuroscientist, backed by a network of scientific renegades, fought back.
■ How to Menopause
Tamsen Fadal (Balance/Grand Central Publishing, March 2025). Emmy award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and global women's health advocate Fadal synthesizes research, stories and strategy to offer women a uniquely integrative guide to menopause featuring actionable steps from a team of 42 experts to help readers cut through the chaos and take back control of their body, their confidence, and their life.
■ The Mortons
Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2026). This joint adult debut from #1 NYT bestselling author Westerfeld and award-winning author Larbalestier, pitched as The Secret History meets The Sopranos meets Saltburn, is a sprawling and dark psychological epic following a modern-day, old-money crime family for whom homicide is heritage, and the consequences of their twisted intergenerational dramas that emerge as the family contends with ever-shifting alliances, power, loyalty, kinship, and love.
■ Tenderly, I Am Devoured
Lyndall Clipstone (Henry Holt BFYR, July 2025). YA romantic horror pitched as Saltburn meets For the Wolf, about a girl's betrothal to a dangerous chthonic god gone wrong and how she must join with her brilliant yet arrogant childhood rival and his alluring older sister to save her family's legacy—and herself—from ruin.
KT Literary
■ The Austen Affair
Madeline Bell (St. Martin's, September 2025). Outlander meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in Jane Austen’s England: an electrical accident on set zaps a C-list actress and her aloof co-star back to Regency Era, where they must grudgingly learn to cooperate, navigate the social protocols of the past, and find their way home.
■ Inferno’s Heir
Tiffany Wang (Bindery, October 15, 2024). Debut YA fantasy for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Six of Crows, featuring a diverse cast and a morally grey AAPI protagonist: a despised princess who has survived her murderous half-brother’s many assassination attempts thanks to wits, magic, and a whole lot of blackmail falls in with a rebellion against him.
■ Overdue
Stephanie Perkins (Saturday Books, September 2025). New Adult/Adult debut from the internationally-bestselling YA author, following a cheerful librarian and her partner of over eleven years, who decide to separate for a month to date other people before getting married and find their unorthodox decision takes their hearts in unexpected directions.
■ Savage Blooms
ST Gibson (Orbit, October, 2025). Wuthering Heights meets a grown-up The Cruel Prince by way of Sierra Simone: the first in a new trilogy from the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author, following two American travelers who find themselves stranded at a crumbling Scottish estate, where they become entangled in the mind games, steamy relationships, and ancient enchantments of an eccentric aristocrat and her brooding groundskeeper.
Larry Weissman Literary
■ Connecting Dots
Josh Miele with Wendell Jamieson (GCP, 2025). The extraordinary memoir of a scientist who became blind at a young age—how he navigates his experience and channels his genius into decades of cutting edge work in accessibility—packed with humor, adventure, and insights on life and disability.
■ The Hare and the Hunter: Murderers, Profilers, and the Making of a Criminal Mind
Rachel Corbett (W.W. Norton, 2025). The strange story of criminal profiling, told through fascinating key moments from Victorian times to ours.
■ The Sexual Evolution
Nathan Lents (Mariner, 2025). An Immense World meets Sex at Dawn in this fascinating exploration of sexual behavior throughout the animal kingdom, as evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents argues persuasively that many of our supposedly modern ideas about gender and human sexuality are, in fact, deeply rooted in our animal ancestors.
■ The Volunteer
Jack Fairweather (Crown, 2025). From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.
Literati Media
■ The Devil of London
Amelia Hutchins (2023). A dark fantasy romance story about a witch finding her true power and the demon who always collects his debts, including the person the Gods have denied him.
■ Ruthless Intent
L. Ann (2024). A psychological romance about a man released from prison after 14 years, who sets out to exact revenge on the woman responsible for putting him there.
■ Shiver
Crea Reatin (2023). A queer, hockey romance about a hockey player losing his scholarship but gets unexpected support that develops into more.
■ When Lightning Strikes
River Hale (2024). A queer, gothic body-horror ghost story about a publishing industry worker with intense harm OCD who goes home and falls into a life that still belongs to someone else.
Nordlyset Literary Agency
■ Callie and the Killer Weed
Rebecca Raney Carpeau. A debut California noir about a marijuana delivery worker from rural Missouri, trying to make it big on the underside of L.A.
■ A Short Guide to Your Long Life
Kerry Burnight (Hachette Worthy, Octopus HBG UK, August 2025). Gerontologist Dr. Kerry shares her groundbreaking approach to help move readers from fear to confidence understanding that the key to longevity isn’t the length of life, but rather the quality of it.
■ Sweet Vidalia
Lisa Sandlin (Little, Brown US & Little, Brown UK, December 2024). Highly lauded internationally successful crime writer Lisa Sandlin’s stand-alone women’s fiction in the vein of Elizabeth Strout, Paulette Jiles, and Ann Tyler is a nuanced portrait of a woman worn down by life to a gemstone quality of durability and self-reliance as she fights to find her own path forward.
Paper Literary
■ If Books Could Kill
Kate Eberle (Pamela Dorman Books, 2026). A high-concept romantic comedy for the book club market follows Roxie Mitchell, an adventure-loving romance reader who finds herself trapped between the pages of a meet-cute-turned-murderous. Rights sold: UK (Michael Joseph); Italy (Garzanti); Spain (Suma); Brazil (Sextante).
■ Three Lives of Cate Kay
Kate Fagan (Atria, 2025). The fiction debut from New York Times bestselling author and journalist, this is an electric, voice-driven novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past. Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury); Germany (Insel); Poland (Publicat).
■ Transference
Rowan Dale (On Submission). A high-concept, edge-of-your-seat thriller in which protagonist Leo wakes up naked and alone in an Australian hotel room mere minutes after falling asleep in his London flat; he's desperate to get home to his pregnant wife but someone is shifting him across the world, looking for the perfect spot to kill him.
Regal Hoffmann & Associates
■ A Dark and Narrow House
Usman T. Malik (Putnam, 2026). A literary haunted house novel , Arabian Nights by way of Shirley Jackson, in which an ancient curse is unleashed by a group of unwitting young Pakistanis seeking refuge from a global plague in a grand mansion in the violent border region between India and Pakistan.
■ Oromay
Baalu Girma (Soho Press, 2025). Ethiopia's most famous novel, published in translation for the first time, is a dark satirical thriller set during the disastrous Derg dictatorship in Ethiopia in the 1980s.
■ Rock, Paper, Grenade
Artem Chekh (Seven Stories Press, 2025). A gritty and moving bildungsroman about a young boy coming of age in a post-Soviet Ukraine that is struggling to step out of the long and dark shadow of history.
■ Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History
Rich Benjamin (Pantheon, 2025). A personal history of Haiti in the second half of the 20th century by the grandson of the country's former president, Daniel Fignolé, who was in power for a mere 19 days before being ousted in a US-backed coup.
Rich Lit Rights on behalf of Gemma Cooper Literary
■ The Awards
Abiola Bello (on submission). A dual-POV novel set within the publishing industry, examining the ways in which Black women are (and aren’t) allowed to challenge bias and advocate for themselves, perfect for fans of YELLOWFACE and THE LIST.
■ Questers Academy: The Box of Locks
Sam Hay (Firefly Press, 2025). A fast paced contemporary middle-grade fantasy in which a team of kids have to retrieve a powerful mythical object before it falls into dangerous hands.
Rich Lit Rights
■ The Lake House Children
Gregg Dunnett (Storm Publishing, 2024). Kate’s son Jack insists he used to be someone else – someone who died tragically and when Jack reveals something he saw, years ago at the family lake house, Kate realizes the truth could tear their family apart.
■ The Librarian's Secret
Angela Henry (Storm Publishing, 2025). A bookseller working as a private librarian for the wealthy Dorsey family discovers dark secrets at the heart of their home.
Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
■ The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan (Knopf, April 2024). A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club.
■ Coffee Shop in an Alternate Universe
C.B. Lee (Feiwel & Friends, June 2025). A geeky overachiever determined to save the world through science and a troublemaking chosen one lashing out against her destiny meet and fall in love in a magical coffeeshop as their two very different universes begin to collide in this fun, sapphic, cozy fantasy YA romance.
■ The Road of Bones
Demi Winters (Dell Books, Nov. 2024). In this epic and immersive Viking-inspired romantic fantasy, a woman fleeing a ruthless assassin accidentally joins forces with a group of thieves and must use all her cunning to escape with her life—and heart—intact.
■ Romantic Friction
Lori Gold (Mira, May 2025). When a bestselling fantasy romance author whose series has become a cultural phenomenon learns another author has used AI to write like her (and that readers love it!) she bands with her fellow authors to preserve their art the only way they can...by committing a felony.
Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
■ Arcane Mechanicals
S.D. Coverly (Del Rey, Feb. 2026). The Night Circus meets Ninth House meets Babel, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dana Schwartz and acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy writer Dan Frey: a fantasy-romance novel set at an elite graduate school where magic is something to be studied only very, very carefully. Rights licensed in Brazil (Rocco), Italy (Mondadori), and Spain (Hidra).
■ Cat Love
Tomás Q. Morin (Pantheon, 2025). A near-future dystopian novel narrated by a cat who finds herself imprisoned in a Schrodinger's box at the center of an emotional statistics course.
■ Saltwater
Katy Hays (Ballantine, March 2025) From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters comes an electrifying thriller about an opulent family retreat to Italy that’s shattered by the resurfacing of a decades-old crime. Rights licensed in UK (Transworld), France (Livre de Poche), Italy (Rizzoli) Germany (Penguin Verlag), Netherlands (De Geus/Singel Group), and Turkey (Altin Kitaplar)
■ A Split Second
Janae Marks (HarperCollins, Oct. 2024). From the New York Times bestselling author of From the Desk of Zoe Washington comes a stunningly crafted and twisty middle grade mystery about the tests of friendships that examines what matters most when everything can change in a split second—perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Anne Ursu.
Sara Crowe Literary (Foreign: Ginger Clark Literary)
■ On Again, Awkward Again
Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia (Abrams, 2025). A dual POV romantic comedy following two hilariously awkward high school freshmen navigating first love with the help of misguided advice from their friends and family.
SBR Media
■ In the Light of a Crystal Dawn by Cary Ash (on submission). In the Light of a Crystal Dawn is an exhilarating journey filled with the push and pull of power, edge of your seat danger, and the anguish of forbidden love that transitions the reader from the world they know to a fantasy world that will stretch their imagination in the best of ways and leave them breathless.
■ Shadows of Sparta by C.R. Jane (on submission). The first in a planned trilogy. Inspired by the legend of Helen of Troy, this sweeping romantasy combines the world of the fae, the gods, and mythology in a brand new series.
■ The Hex Bible by J.R. Sarita (on submission). A mesmerizing tale of self-discovery, friendship, and the often painful journey from childhood to adulthood, J.R. Sarita weaves a rich tapestry of magic and emotion. With its blend of mystery, fantasy, and heart-wrenching drama, this novel marks the arrival of a bright new voice in young adult literature.
■ The Travis Club by Mark Louis (on submission). Nichols, renowned for his bestselling biography of architect Randall Hugley, weaves a tale of intrigue set in the heart of San Antonio. When Taylor, a struggling writer and local historian, stumbles upon a long-lost set of blueprints, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a web of secrets that powerful forces will stop at nothing to keep hidden.
Selectric Artists (Foreign: Ginger Clark Literary)
■ Trust Issues
Elizabeth McCullough Keenan and Greg Wands (Dutton, 2025). The first book under these two writers own names, in which dysfunctional siblings team up to take down their stepfather, who they believe killed their mother and ran off with their inheritance.
Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency
■ Archive of Unknown Universes: A Novel
Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner, 2025). On the heels of the author's widely acclaimed story collection (There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Mariner, 2024) comes a debut novel wherein speculative worlds collide. When college student Ana discovers a device that lets her see just a few seconds from alternate universes, she’s confronted with a question that will alter not just her life, but the lives of those around her: what would happen if the Salvadoran Civil War had an entirely different outcome?
■ Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World — And How We Can Take It Back
Chris Berdik (Norton, 2025). An investigation into how we can better understand and sometimes fight back against the nearly universal, remarkably complex, and constantly growing cacophony of noise that fills our world
■ The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a Search for Relief
Tom Zeller (Mariner, 2025). From an award-winning science journalist and longtime sufferer of chronic headaches comes the first ever investigation into the science of headaches, the biases that have long sidelined their serious study, and the author's experiments with emerging medicines that may, finally, offer relief.
■ Untitled on Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Artificial General Intelligence
Ashlee Vance (Random House, delivery 2026). The definitive account of the creation of Artificial General Intelligence, the turbulent and immensely consequential company OpenAI, and of its CEO, Sam Altman. Licensed in the UK, Brazil, China (simple), China (complex), Finland, Greece, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.
Susanna Lea Associates
■ Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine
David Kessler. An eye-opening, provocative, and empowering book on the disease of obesity, including the promise—and peril—of weight loss drugs. Rights sold: Korea (Woongjin), US (Flatiron), UK (New River).
■ Kate: A Fable
Priya Parmar. Set in the dazzling world of Hollywood’s golden age, where Katharine Hepburn navigates love, betrayal, and personal tragedy, whilst refusing to pretend to be anyone but herself.
Rights sold: North America (Ballantine).
■ The Way
Cary Groner. Blending The Passage with Station Eleven, this is the imaginative and thrilling story of a battle-scarred survivor on a desperate, postapocalyptic road trip in Cary Groner’s vision of the near future. Rights sold: North America (Spiegel & Grau), UK (Canongate)
■ What the Dead Have to Say
Philippe Boxho. With 270,000 copies sold in French, What the Dead Have to Say is the first of three books by the forensic pathologist and author Philippe Boxho, who takes us to crime scenes, where bodies disappear, murders are covered up, suicides reveal surprises, and the dead aren’t always as dead as we think. Rights sold: Brazil, France, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia.
Trident Media Group
■ Audition
Katie Kitamura (Riverhead, April 2025). Author of A Separation and Intimacies Katie Kitamura’s new novel reflects upon whether we ever really know the people we love when an actress embedded in the New York theater scene is confronted by a young man who says he is her son. Rights sold: France (Stock), Germany (Hanser), Italy (Bollati Boringhieri), and Spain (Sexto Piso)
■ Great Black Hope
Rob Franklin (Summit Books, Summer 2025). NYU MFA alum and Kimbilio Fiction fellow Rob Franklin’s debut novel about race, class, addiction, and love in all its complicated forms, following a young Black man caught up in the underbelly of elite East Coast privilege after a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest.
■ The Renovation
Kenan Orhan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Winter 2026). PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist Kenan Orhan’s debut novel follows a Turkish émigré in Italy who discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell, where she becomes an unlikely inmate in this compressed, disquieting work of exile, translation, family, and unrest, spanning years, countries, regimes, and revolutions. Rights sold: UK (Hamish Hamilton)
■ The Unraveling of Julia
Lisa Scottoline (Grand Central, July 2025). NYT Bestseller author Lisa Scottoline’s new novel is a modern gothic tale set in Tuscany, combining psychological suspense, love story, and family drama. The story follows a woman descending into madness as she tries to find her birth mother all while she is stalked by a deadly conspiracy.
Trellis Literary Management
■ The Most Monstrous Thing
Olivia Muenter (Little, Brown, Spring 2026). An upmarket suspense about a woman who grew up in a utopian commune-turned-cult must confront a past she’s put firmly behind her when a journalist turns up asking questions she would rather leave unanswered.
■ A Promise to Arlette
Serena Burdick (Atria, June 2025). An evocative, lyrically written historical novel where a married couple living the ideal 1950s suburban life must reckon with the promises they made during WWII when past secrets resurface, inspired by the life of the author’s grandmother.
■ Trans Berlin
Laurie Marhoefer (Tiny Reparations, Fall 2027). A powerful, narrative account of the world’s first-known movement for trans liberation, in Weimar Republic-era Berlin, by a leading trans historian.
■ Treatable
Sarah Wakeman (on submission). A hopeful, evidence-based book that will change the conversation around addiction and how we treat it, from a leading expert on addiction medicine.
UnderCover Literary Agents
■ El camello Alberto (Alberto Simply Unique)
Gusti (Baobab, Planeta, 2024). Alberto Camello carries a strong message of diversity and uniqueness, in a charismatic illustrated album in friendly colors, heading for international success, with several translations already underway. Time to become part of Alberto's crowd.
■ Interior. Noche. (Interior. Night)
Jesús Cañadas (Planeta, 2025). A scary Meta-Thriller with fantasy elements, for the likes of Robert Pobi and Stephen King, by one of the most talented new Spanish writers, which focuses on violence against women and children and surprises with a groundbreaking treatment of fantastical elements.
■ La soga de cristal (The Rope of Glass)
Elia Barceló (Roca Editorial, 2024). A Mediterranean Noir where the murder of the guru of a strange cult causes a stir amongst the cult members and the multigenerational community of Santa Rita. Crime Series for upmarket commercial lists.
The Unter Agency
■ The Child Catcher
Andrew Bridge (Regalo Press, 2024). The true story of an attorney, himself placed in institutional care as a child, and his David v Goliath legal battle to rescue children confined to a violent and secretive institution in the rural South.
■ The Rise of Major League Soccer
Rick Burton & Norman O'Reilly (Lyons Press, 2025). The story of Major League Soccer and how its 2023 partnership with Apple and the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America could make it “a rival to Europe’s biggest football leagues” and one of the world’s largest professional sports businesses.
■ Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant
Stephanie Kiser (Sourcebooks, 2024). Funny & poignant National Bestselling memoir of a first-generation college student's seven years nannying for NYC's wealthiest families, exploring issues of class, motherhood and privilege against the backdrop of her own blue-collar upbringing.
■ When Worry Works
Dana Dorfman (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Helps parents manage the stresses of adolescent achievement culture and to make decisions which align with their values, rather than their anxiety.
United Talent Agency (UTA)
■ Matriarch
Tina Knowles (One World, 2025). The mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Solange Knowles, and Kelly Rowland, is known the world-over as a Matriarch with a capital M: a determined, self-possessed, self-aware, and wise woman who raised and inspired two of the great artists of our time. Matriarch is a glorious chronicle of a life like none other and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.
■ Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke (Knopf, 2026). Natalie has made a career selling her farming fantasy lifestyle — sourdough starters, chickens from the coop, gorgeous children dressed in matching neutrals — to a rabid audience of millions. But when Natalie suddenly wakes up in the year 1805 in a drafty old house surrounded by a band of dirty children, she must figure out the nature— hoax, reality show, test from God— of her terrifying new existence.
■ What if You Are the Answer?
Rachel Hollis (Authors Equity Group/S&S, 2025). From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing comes a new book about asking the right questions to make us think and teach us about ourselves. Rachel Hollis shares the transformative questions that have helped her heal, grow, and thrive, even when life throws its hardest punches.
■ My Friends
Fredrik Backman (Atria, 2025). The acclaimed internationally-bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, Anxious People, and more returns with a story of five close friends who have grown up surrounded by violence and would do anything for each other, and a young artist who desperately wants to create something, anything.
Waxman Literary Agency
■ Family of Spies: My Father, the Nazis, and the Only Secret Agent Convicted for the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Christine Kuehn (Celadon, 2025). A genealogical detective story involving the author’s own family, who were spies stationed in Hawaii and believed integral to the attack on Pearl Harbor—one of the last uncovered World War II stories left to tell.
■ The Golden Toad: A True Story of Family Obsession and Ecological Mystery
Kyle Ritland & Trevor Ritland (Diversion, 2025). Twin documentarians and environmental writers search through the forests of Costa Rica for the elusive and possibly extinct golden toad.
■ Moonrising
Claire Barner (Diversion, 2025). A near-future cli-fi about an agronomist recruited to create a sustainable food supply for the moon's first hotel who finds love with the hotel owner, the two facing off with eco-terrorists and fighting for the future of humanity.
■ The Secret of Revenge: Understanding the World’s Deadliest Addiction and How We Can Overcome It
James Kimmel, Jr. (Harmony, 2025). This groundbreaking book, part investigation and part how-to, will reveal the hidden courtroom of the mind where humans try, convict, sentence, and punish each other.
William Clark Associates
■ Other Rivers
Peter Hessler (Penguin Press, 2024). An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century.
■ Cooler than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
C.M. Kushins (Mariner, 2025). Drawing on unprecedented archival and family access, this is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bestsellers like Get Shorty and Raylan.
■ The Formidable Mrs. Chao
Jen Lin-Liu (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2025). The story of Buwei Yang Chao, a pioneering Chinese culinary author whose 1945 cookbook revolutionized America's understanding of Chinese cuisine, while exploring her remarkable life journey through personal challenges, historical upheavals, and the power of food to heal and connect.
■ Mondrian
Nicholas Fox Weber (Knopf, 2024). The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber.
Writers House
■ What Kind of Paradise
Janelle Brown (Random House, June 2025). A teenage girl breaks free from her father's world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this propulsive new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.
■ Eden Undon
Abbott Kahler (Crown, Sept.). Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the march to World War II, New York Times bestselling author Abbott Kahler weaves an incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos. Rights have been sold in: Hungary/Libri/; Dutch/ Mozaiek; Poland/Znak; HarperCollins/UK.
■ Money For Couples: No More Stress. No More Fights. Just A 10-Step Plan To Create Your Rich Life Together
Ramit Sethi (Workman, Dec.). Ramit Sethi, host of Netflix’s How to Get Rich and bestselling author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich, goes beyond the usual “make a budget” advice and gives couples a step-by-step plan to transform their financial lives in a way that’s exciting and fun, including how to actually enjoy your money. Rights have been sold in: Poland/Zysk; Spain/Obelisco; Croatia/Udruga Knjigoteka.
■ Sunderworld
Ransom Riggs (Dutton). The new YA series and instant New York Times bestseller from visionary storyteller Riggs (his first new project since Miss Peregrine) weaves the familiar with the peculiar in a stunning tale of loss, triumph, friendship and magic, will remind readers everywhere that true heroes are made, not born—and when you’re never the chosen one, sometimes you have to choose yourself. Rights have been sold in a flurry of sales & auctions in almost 15 territories and counting.
The Wylie Agency
■ Just Economics
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone. Proposes a grand bargain to resolve the impasse between rich countries and poor ones, one that both compensates those harmed by climate change and reduces future emissions. Rights sold: India (Juggernaut), UK (Allen Lane), US (Norton).
■ Intermezzo
Sally Rooney. (FSG, Sept. 2024) An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Rights sold: Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Canada (Knopf), China (Archipel), Croatia (Fraktura), Catalan (Periscopi), Czech Republic (Argo), Denmark (Gutkind), Estonia (Varrak), Finland (Otava), France (Gallimard), Germany (Ullstein), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (21. Szazad Kiado), Indonesia (Shira Media), Iceland (Forlagid), Italy (Einaudi), Japan (Hayakawa), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Norway (Bonnier Norsk), Poland (Foksal), Portugal (Relogio d'Agua), Serbia (Geopoetika), Slovenia (Mladinska Knjiga), Spain (Literatura Random House), Sweden (Bonniers), Taiwan (China Times), Turkey (CAN), Ukraine (Red Lion), UK (Faber), US (FSG).
■ The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai. The third novel from Booker Prize-winning author Kiran Desai addresses the subject of loneliness. Using the comic lens of an endlessly unresolved romance between two modern Indians, this story examines international notions and manifestations of solitude as they play out across the geographical and emotional terrain of today's world. Rights sold: Brazil (Companhia das Letras), China (ThinKingdom), Germany (Fischer), India (Penguin India), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (Literackie), US (Hogarth).
■ The Original Daughter
Jemimah Wei. In the story of a family and its contention with the roiling changes of our rapidly modernizing, winner-take-all world, The Original Daughter is a major literary debut, rife with emotional clarity and searing social insight. Rights sold: Netherlands (Meridiaan), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), US (Doubleday).
