Top 10

The Antidote

Karen Russell. Knopf, Mar. 11 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-80225-0)

A witch and a photographer feature among the cast of Russell’s first novel since Swamplandia!, which traces a dust storm’s impact on a Nebraska town during the Great Depression.

Audition

Katie Kitamura. Riverhead, Apr. 8 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-85232-3)

Kitamura explores the nature of performance in this story of a successful actor and her mysterious connection to a much younger man.

The Book of Records

Madeleine Thien. Norton, May 20 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-324-07865-4)

In Thien’s meditation on human migration and the passage of time, characters from different centuries meet in a magical building called the Sea.

Death Takes Me

Cristina Rivera Garza, trans. by Robin Myers and Sarah Booker. Hogarth, Feb. 25 ($28,
ISBN 978-0-593-73700-2)

A professor aids investigators in hunting for a poetry-obsessed serial killer, prompting her to reflect on the relationship between gender, literature, and violence.

Flashlight

Susan Choi. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 3 ($29, ISBN 978-0-374-61637-3)

National Book Award winner Choi’s first novel since Trust Exercise revolves around a father’s mysterious disappearance and his 10-year-old daughter’s near-drowning during their trip to Japan.

Gabriële

Anne and Claire Berest, trans. by Tina Kover. Europa, Apr. 22 ($28, ISBN 979-8-88966-089-7)

The Berest sisters team up for a prequel to Anne’s The Postcard, further exploring their illustrious family’s tragic history.

Goddess Complex

Sanjena Sathian. Penguin Press, Mar. 11 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-48977-2)

In Sathian’s satire of the fertility industry, a woman leaves her husband, has an abortion, and discovers her pregnant doppelgänger.

The River Is Waiting

Wally Lamb. S&S/Rucci, May 6 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-0639-9)

A man hopes for redemption while serving a prison sentence for the crime that tore apart his family, in the latest from bestseller Lamb.

So Far Gone

Jess Walter. Harper, June 10 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-286814-5)

Edgar Award winner Walter’s contemporary western follows a reclusive man who attempts to rescue his grandchildren from a Christian nationalist militia.

Twist

Colum McCann. Random House, Mar. 25 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-24173-8)

A journalist embeds with an engineer and deep-sea diver off the west coast of Africa to report on underwater communication cables and those who repair them.

longlist

Akashic

Paradise Once by Olive Senior (June 3, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-63614-227-2). Taíno myth and a 16th-century massacre in a Cuban village provide the seeds for Senior’s story of anticolonial resistance.

Archipelago

People from Oetimu by Felix Nesi, trans. by Lara Norgaard (Feb. 11, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-953861-98-6). In this debut from Indonesian writer Nesi, a group of Timor people aid in the 1998 World Cup terror plot.

Astra House

Barbara by Joni Murphy (Mar. 25, $28, ISBN 978-1-6626-0287-0). The child of a Manhattan Project engineer grows up to become a Hollywood starlet in Murphy’s saga of broken families and violence on and off the screen.

Atria

The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry (Mar. 18, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-1187-4). Henry draws on the lives of authors Barbara Newhall Follett and Beatrix Potter for the story of an English writer’s disappearance.

Avid Reader

The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li (May 6, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-5172-6). Middle grade and YA author Li makes her adult debut with the gothic story of a feud between the descendants of a Chinese American film star and the family that inherits her California estate.

Ballantine

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (June 3, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-15871-5). From the author of Daisy Jones and the Six comes a tale of 1980s space travel.

Berkley

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray (Feb. 4, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-63848-4). The coauthor of The Personal Librarian steps out on her own for this story of Harlem Renais-
sance editor and poet Jessie Redmon Fauset.

Bloomsbury

Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith (Feb. 4, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-332-3). In early-20th-century New York City, a queer woman forges a marriage of convenience with a soap manufacturer whose male lover moves in with the couple.

Counterpoint

Supersonic by Thomas Kohnstamm (Feb. 25, $30, ISBN 978-1-64009-681-3) turns a PTA battle over the renaming of a Seattle school into a saga of colonialism, industry, and Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest.

Crown

Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley (Feb. 25, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-79908-6). The muse of a successful songwriter chafes at playing second fiddle in Brickley’s debut about the early 2000s indie music scene.

Doubleday

The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei (May 6, $30, ISBN 978-0-385-55101-4) is a debut about a tragic tale of two young sisters in Singapore, where one is overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed at any cost.

The Jackal’s Mistress by Chris Bohjalian (Mar. 11, $29, ISBN 978-0-385-54764-2). Bohjalian’s Civil War drama chronicles a Confederate woman’s rescue of a wounded Union soldier and attempt to reunite with her captive husband.

Ecco

Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson (May 13, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-331751-2). A group of half-siblings from several families band together to find their long-absent dad in Wilson’s road novel.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet, trans. by Sam Taylor (Apr. 8, $27, ISBN 978-0-374-61460-7), follows an art historian helping to solve a case of murder and vandalism in Renaissance Florence.

Room on the Sea: Three Novellas by André Aciman (June 24, $27, ISBN 978-0-374-61341-9). Each entry in Aciman’s triptych of friendship and love traces the entanglements between strangers after they meet.

Flatiron

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Mar. 4, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-82795-1). In her third family drama concerning nature and science, McConaghy zooms in on the caretakers of an Antarctic island and their dark secrets.

Grand Central

The Sable Cloak by Gail Milissa Grant (Feb. 4, $28, ISBN 978-1-5387-4200-6) draws on the author’s family history for a portrait of an elite Black family in Jim Crow St. Louis.

Graywolf

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà, trans. by Mara Faye Lethem (June 17, $17 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64445-343-8), centers on a woman who makes a deal with the devil for a perfect husband.

Grove

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Apr. 15, $27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6466-7), follows the adventures of a woman raised in an alternate Japan where sex is taboo and people procreate using artificial insemination.

Harper

Zeal by Morgan Jerkins (Apr. 22, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-323408-6). A Harlem couple engaged to be married discover connections between their families dating back to the end of the Civil War.

Harpervia

The Wildelings by Lisa Harding (Apr. 15, $28, ISBN 978-0-06-337565-9). Two friends are torn apart by the influence of a manipulative philosophy student in 1990s Dublin.

Hogarth

Fox by Joyce Carol Oates (June 17, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-97808-5). When a charming boarding school teacher goes missing—and a body is found near his car—attention turns to his previously unexamined character.

Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, trans. by Polly Barton (Mar. 18, $22, ISBN 978-0-593-73471-1). A Tokyo woman copes with her severe physical disability by keeping active online, where her larkish solicitation for a sperm donor is unexpectedly met with an offer.

HoLT

Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins (May 13, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-75936-8). A woman travels to San Juan to explore her Puerto Rican heritage and gets caught in a hurricane in the latest from the author of American Dirt.

Kensington

The Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, and Liz Parker (Feb. 25, $28, ISBN 978-1-4967-5025-9) continues the trend of Little Women retellings with a story focused on Meg, Beth, and Amy.

Knopf

The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley (June 24, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-80112-3). A teen mother scorned by her family finds support from a group of fellow teen moms at her Florida high school.

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (Feb. 11, $27, ISBN 978-0-593-80348-6) depicts a broken family’s awkwardness, revelations, and reconciliations during a wedding weekend.

Little, Brown

Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh (Apr. 8, $29, ISBN 978-0-316-57713-7). A divorced couple travels from the U.S. to Shanghai after learning that their 22-year-old daughter is fighting for her life there after being struck by a car.

Mariner

The Float Test by Lynn Steger Strong (Apr. 8, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-339073-7) explores a long-held grudge between adult siblings and uncovers family secrets during a summer in Florida.

Morrow

The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner (Apr. 8, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-344581-9). Estranged sisters Cassie and Zoe confront the reasons for calling it quits on their famous pop duo back in the early 2000s after Zoe’s teen daughter begins searching for answers.

New Directions

The Deserter by Mathias Énard, trans. by Charlotte Mandell (May 6, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8112-3901-1), unfolds the parallel narratives of a soldier exhausted by an unidentified war and a scientific conference held on Sept. 11, 2001.

New York Review Books

Lion by Sonya Walger (Feb. 4, $15.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68137-903-6). The Lost actor’s autofictional debut tells the story of an actor’s larger-than-life Argentinian father and her efforts to raise a family while pursuing a show-business career.

One World

My Documents by Kevin Nguyen (Apr. 8, $27, ISBN 978-0-593-73168-0) explores the implications of bigotry and fear when, in an alternate present, the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans.

Other Press

Allegro by Ariel Dorfman (Mar. 4, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63542-448-5). In Dorfman’s tale of great composers, a doctor blamed for the death of Bach pleads with a nine-year-old Mozart to help clear his name.

Pantheon

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Mar. 4, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-31760-0). People’s dreams are surveilled in the latest from Lalami, which has shades of The Handmaid’s Tale and Minority Report.

Gliff by Ali Smith (Feb. 4, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-70156-0). The totalitarian government of a country resembling post-Brexit England reshapes the lives of two teens when their mother is sent away as punishment for her resistance.

Park Row

The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner (Apr. 29, $30, ISBN 978-0-7783-0800-3). An archaeologist searching for a treasure off the Amalfi Coast unearths a centuries-old curse that originated with a group of witches.

Penguin Press

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (May 13, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-83187-8) chronicles a friendship formed between a 19-year-old man and an older widow after she intervenes in his suicide attempt.

Putnam

The Eights by Joanna Miller (Apr. 15, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-85141-8). Miller debuts with a novel inspired by the first four women to enroll at Oxford University in 1920.

Random House

Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories by Torrey Peters (Mar. 11, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-59564-0). A cross-dressing lumberjack and other characters explore the limits of gender expression and sexuality, in this collection from the author of Detransition, Baby.

Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart (July 8, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-59509-1) unspools the story of a blended and adoptive family straining under financial pressures and questions of identity.

Riverhead

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Mar. 18, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-85260-6). The Nobel winner traces the crisscrossing paths of three young people in turn of the millennium Tanzania, where traditions crumble in the face of new opportunities.

Scribner

Flesh by David Szalay (Apr. 1, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-2279-9). A Hungarian teen’s secret affair with an older neighbor woman leads to disaster in the latest from Booker finalist Szalay.

Seven Stories

Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, trans. by Natasha Lehrer (Apr. 1, $22.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64421-467-1). Sinno’s work of autofiction, a bestseller in France, combines the story of her sexually abusive stepfather with a meditation on the literature of sexual violence.

Simon & Schuster

Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp (Mar. 25, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-5703-2) follows the exploits of a 20-something punk rocker who sets out to become the best girlfriend of all time.

St. Martin’s

The Sirens by Emilia Hart (Apr. 1, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-28082-4) links two mysterious stories of sisters in Australia, one set in 1800 when the country was a convict colony, and one in the present, when a nightmare provokes an act of violence.

Summit Books

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue (Mar. 18, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-8279-9) draws on a historical 1895 derailment for the story of an anarchist bomber aboard a train bound for Paris.

Tin House

Hellions: Stories by Julia Elliott (Apr. 15, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-963108-06-4). The author of The Wilds flits from a medieval convent to the contemporary Carolinas, blending fantasy and Southern gothic, in her latest collection.

Washington Square

There’s No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes, trans. by Ann Goldstein (Feb. 11, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-8363-5). De Céspedes’s 1938 novel, newly translated by Goldstein, revolves around a group of self-determined women in Rome.

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