Natalie Heller Mills is a tradwife influencer with 8 million followers, a farmhouse in Idaho, and a carefully curated life built on the performance of perfection. Then one morning she wakes up in 1855 and has to survive the actual life she's been selling. A darkly funny debut that blends satire and psychological thriller to examine faith, fame, and the grand performance of womanhood.

In a society modeled on the Roman Republic, power is hoarded by draining the will of those below. Vis Telimus is an ousted prince hiding in plain sight at an elite academy, tasked with uncovering its buried secrets. A sprawling dark academia epic with political intrigue, a clever magic system, and a gut-punch ending. Fans of Pierce Brown's Red Rising will find much to love here.

Earth has been strip-mined by aliens and turned into a dungeon crawl broadcast as entertainment across the galaxy. Carl, a former Coast Guard member, and Princess Donut, his ex-girlfriend's cat, are among the few survivors forced to compete. Equal parts brutal survival horror and absurdist comedy, with an unlikely duo at the center who carry the whole thing on their backs.

Set in 1940s California, three teenage girls from vastly different backgrounds — an Okie survivor of the Dust Bowl, a rancher's daughter, and a Mexican-American farmworker — come together on a peach orchard and forge an unlikely bond. A warm, character-driven story about bridging differences, sisterhood, and the quiet power of showing up for each other.

Told entirely through letters and emails spanning 2012 to 2022, the novel follows Sybil Van Antwerp — a retired lawyer in Annapolis, gradually losing her sight, carrying the weight of a dead child and an unresolved adoption. She writes to family, colleagues, and authors like Joan Didion and Ann Patchett. A slow-burn debut inspired by Stoner and 84 Charing Cross Road that quietly became a bestseller.

Shai is a Forger — a magical thief capable of rewriting the history of objects to alter their present reality. Caught breaking into the palace, she faces execution unless she can do the impossible: forge a new soul for the emperor, who lies brain-dead after an assassination attempt, in 100 days. A tight, meditative novella about art, identity, and what it means to truly know a person. Hugo Award winner.

Cyrus Shams is a queer Iranian-American poet, drunk, and addict, obsessed with martyrdom and the mysteries surrounding his mother's death — her plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was a baby. A visit to a dying artist in a Brooklyn gallery sends him searching through his inheritance of violence and loss. Poet Akbar's debut novel is funny, devastating, and unlike anything else.

In 2012, a manuscript is discovered in a Montana parsonage. Inside, a Lutheran pastor documents a series of confessional visits from a Blackfeet man named Good Stab, who is not seeking absolution. He is telling the story of his long, vampiric life — and the massacre that made him. A horror masterpiece rooted in real history, told in nested voices across centuries. An Obama Summer Read.

One impulsive kiss at a christening party leads to an affair that dismantles two marriages and creates a reluctantly blended family of six children. Told across fifty years in vivid vignettes, Commonwealth follows those children — how their shared and separate lives intersect, diverge, and quietly define who they become. Patchett at her most personal and precise.

After a disturbing dream, Yeong-hye — an otherwise unremarkable Korean housewife — stops eating meat and refuses to explain why. What follows is a spiral told through the eyes of three people around her: her controlling husband, her obsessive brother-in-law, and her protective sister. Quiet, unsettling, and deeply strange. International Booker Prize winner from the Nobel laureate.

One night in February 1862, President Lincoln visits the crypt where his 11-year-old son Willie has just been buried. Around him, a chorus of ghosts — trapped in the bardo, the Tibetan Buddhist realm between death and rebirth — bear witness. Assembled from fragments of historical documents and invented voices, Saunders' debut novel is a grief-soaked fever dream that won the Man Booker Prize.

Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As it slowly comes back to him — he's on a one-man mission to save Earth from an extinction-level threat — he realizes he may already be too late. Then he finds he's not alone. One of the most joyful, propulsive sci-fi novels in years. Hugo Award finalist, now a major film.