Top 10

Cool Machine

Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, July 21 ($30, ISBN 978-0-385-55050-5)

Crime remains a reliable fallback for the otherwise up-and-up family man and business leader Ray Carney, hero of National Book Award winner Whitehead’s final entry in the trilogy that began with Harlem Shuffle.

A Far-Flung Life

M.L. Stedman. Scribner, Mar. 3 ($30, ISBN 978-1-6682-1961-4)

A car accident sets in motion a series of tragedies and moral dilemmas in Stedman’s family drama set in the Australian outback, which arrives 14 years after her bestseller The Light Between Oceans.

Go Gentle

Maria Semple. Putnam, Apr. 14 ($30, ISBN 979-8-217-17663-2)

Semple, author of the modern classic Where’d You Go, Bernadette, spins a story of love and philosophy, centered on a happily single New York City mom whose virtuous and well-ordered life is disrupted by an unexpected love affair.

The Great Wherever

Shannon Sanders. Holt, July 7 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-42167-8)

In the acclaimed short story writer’s debut novel, a 30-something Black woman travels from her home in Washington, D.C., to rural Tennessee, where she grapples with her heritage while her family fights over an ancestral farm.

John of John

Douglas Stuart. Grove, May 5 ($28, ISBN 978-0-8021-6719-4)

The Booker winner departs from the gritty Glasgow setting of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo to set this novel on a sheep farm in the Hebrides, where a prodigal son has reluctantly returned home after art school.

Last Night in Brooklyn

Xochitl Gonzalez. Flatiron, Apr. 21 ($27.99, ISBN 978-1-250-37203-1)

Bestseller Gonzalez follows up Anita de Monte Laughs Last with the story of a hard-working young woman who longs to move out of her mom’s house in 2007 Brooklyn as hard-partying newcomers flood their gentrifying neighborhood.

Now I Surrender

Álvaro Enrigue, trans. by Natasha Wimmer. Riverhead, Mar. 3 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-08407-6)

Mexican novelist Enrigue complicates the myths of the American West with his latest, a tapestry of stories about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands that spans from the Apache Wars to the present day.

Sisters in Yellow

Mieko Kawakami, trans. by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio. Knopf, Mar. 17 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-53773-2)

The bonds of four women are tested while they work to keep their Tokyo bar open in this tale of the city’s nightlife and criminal underworld.

Transcription

Ben Lerner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr. 7 ($25, ISBN 978-0-374-61859-9)

A writer interviews his mentor, a nonagenarian artist, without his recording device, and both men confront the limits of what they can remember, in this novel about art, memory, and technology from NBCC and Pulitzer finalist Lerner.

Whidbey

T Kira Madden. Mariner, Mar. 10 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-328968-0)

Memoirist Madden turns to fiction with a post-#MeToo whodunit that connects the stories of three women with that of their abuser, who’s just been murdered.

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37 Ink

Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson (Feb. 10, $30, ISBN 978-1-6680-6991-2). The bestseller’s parallel narrative follows a Black soldier’s affair with a German woman during WWII and a Black teen who integrates a private school in Maryland in the 1960s.

Amistad

Ghalen: A Romance in Black by Walter Mosley (May 26, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-345155-1) blends a bildungsroman with a love story about the title character’s very different parents, a high-achieving scientist and a modest restaurant cook.

Arcade

A Table for Fortune by William T. Vollmann (Mar. 3, $149.99, ISBN 978-1-64821-188-1), to appear simultaneously in four individual editions and this boxed set, follows a CIA analyst’s triumphant career during the Cold War and his wayward son’s life in the 21st century.

Archipelago

A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness, trans. by Philip Roughton (Feb. 10, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-962770-51-4). The Nobel laureate weaves together centuries of Icelandic history with this story of an endangered church said to house the bones of a Viking poet.

Astra House

Offseason by Avigayl Sharp (May 5, $28, ISBN 978-1-6626-0350-1). A boarding school’s new teacher engages in irreverent behavior while dealing with her own trauma.

Atria

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle (Mar. 10, $27, ISBN 978-1-6680-2591-8) unfolds a story of love and regrets, in which a woman considers what to do with her special power, which she can use only once, to redo a formative event.

Ballantine

The Johnson Four by Christina Hammonds Reed (Feb. 3, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-72448-4) weaves American music history into a story about a family singing group who encounters the ghost of a minstrel singer while on the road in the 1960s.

Bellevue Literary

Mule Boy by Andrew Krivak (Feb. 3, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-954276-46-8) traces the aftermath of a 1929 coal mine collapse and its effects on a survivor, the Pennsylvania-born son of Slovak immigrants.

Berkley

The Take by Kelly Yang (Apr. 14, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-95337-2). The author of the Front Desk middle grade series puts a vampiric twist on the reverse-aging theme, as two women take part in blood-transfusion treatment to swap their respective youthful looks and hard-won wisdom.

Bloomsbury

Agnes Lives! by Hallie Elizabeth Newton (June 23, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-856-4). The antiheroine of this darkly comic debut has a death wish that she attempts to fulfill by the end of one day in New York City.

Celadon

Wait for Me by Amy Jo Burns (Mar. 3, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-39930-4). On one track of this parallel narrative, a rising folk music star mysteriously vanishes in 1973. On the other, set in the early 1990s, an aspiring songwriter who grew up without her mother yearns to break out of her small Appalachian town.

Coffee House

Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda, trans. by Sarah Booker (May 12, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-56689-755-6), revolves around a drug-fueled music festival at the base of a volcano in Ecuador.

Counterpoint

The Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman (Feb. 24, $27, ISBN 978-1-64009-748-3). In a starred review, PW called this novel of infighting and sabotage at a restaurant a “pitch-perfect mash-up of Clue and The Bear.”

Deep Vellum

Filth Eaters by Ito Romo (May 19, $25.95, ISBN 978-1-64605-430-5). A medieval Spanish vampire migrates to Mexico in search of a
better life and falls in love with an Aztec vampire in this work of literary horror about colonialism and desire.

Dial

This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman (Feb. 10, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-44784-0). This decades-spanning novel untangles a long-
running feud between two sisters, now grandmothers, after their other sister dies.

Doubleday

Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer (June 9, $30, ISBN 978-0-385-55197-7). The Pulitzer winner spins a tale of a hapless young American who takes a job as an assistant to an aging Tuscan baronessa.

Ecco

Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell (Apr. 21, $27.99, ISBN 978-0-06-343506-3). In this existential detective novel, a trans author turned sleuth is mistaken for someone else and explores his family history.

Hooked: A Novel of Obsession by Asako Yuzuki, trans. by Polly Barton (Mar. 17, $22 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-344241-2). The Japanese author’s follow-up to her bestseller Butter explores a fraught friendship between two women further complicated by their unbridled professional ambition.

Europa

Tata by Valérie Perrin, trans. by Hildegarde Searle (June 23, $28, ISBN 979-8-88966-182-5). A Frenchwoman is unsettled by a call from the police to identify the body of an aunt she thought had died three years earlier.

Faber & Faber

Mostly Hero by Anna Burns (May 19, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-571-39972-7). The Booker-winning Irish author draws on comic books, pulp cinema, and folklore with a novel about an octogenarian superhero.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Vilhelm’s Room by Tove Ditlevsen, trans. by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (May 12, $25, ISBN 978-0-374-61349-5). In this 1976 novel from the late Danish author, known for her memoir cycle the Copenhagen Trilogy, a writer is spurned by her husband and has a mental breakdown.

Flatiron

Rasputin Swims the Potomac by Ben Fountain (June 9, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-77654-9). The NBCC winner unspools a near-future burlesque in which Trump campaigns for a third term with help from a pro wrestler, and the White House plays host to a reality TV program.

Graywolf

Autobiography of Cotton by Cristina Rivera Garza, trans. by Christina MacSweeney (Feb. 3, $17 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64445-369-8). In a starred review, PW called this novel, about a 1930s cotton workers’ strike in Mexico, an “impassioned testament to resilience and struggle.”

Harper

The Au Pair by Teddy Wayne (June 30, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-345723-2) blends a sex comedy with a psychological thriller. An erstwhile literary star shrivels in his successful wife’s shadow until he falls for their au pair, who claims to love his work.

Hogarth

The Frenzy: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (June 16, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-97811-5). The prolific author returns with a collection in which characters commit impulsive acts of desire, revenge, vigilantism, and more.

Kensington/Scognamiglio

Won’t Be Long Now by Elizabeth Hardinger (Apr. 28, $27, ISBN 978-1-4967-5876-7). A neurodivergent girl struggles to find acceptance while growing up in 1950s Kansas, where she’s roiled by a family tragedy.

Knopf

Kin by Tayari Jones (Feb. 24, $30, ISBN 978-0-525-65918-1) traces the divergent paths of two childhood friends from rural Louisiana, one of whom attends prestigious Spelman College while the other leads a life of struggle.

Little, Brown

New Skin by Sarah Wang (May 12, $29, ISBN 978-0-316-59452-3). In Wang’s debut, a Los Angeles woman considers joining the cast of a reality TV show about people with plastic surgery addictions, despite protests from the 20-something daughter who’s been caring for her.

Liveright

Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You by Julián Delgado Lopera (May 26, $31.99, ISBN 978-1-324-09720-4). A Bogotá teen
living with her father, a depressed queer widower, finds much-needed support from an old friend of her father’s.

Melville House

Heap Earth upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth (Feb. 3, $20.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68589-253-1) explores class differences, small-town isolation, and secret queer lives in 1960s Ireland through the story of a village’s mysterious newcomers and the rich couple who takes a shine to them.

Morrow

The Astral Library by Kate Quinn (Feb. 17, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-347975-3). Books are magic in this fantastical novel about a young Boston woman who escapes—literally—from her hard-knock life into her favorite works of literature, with help from a mysterious immortal librarian.

New Directions

The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova, trans. by Sasha Dugdale (Feb. 17, $15.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8112-3940-0). The exiled Russian novelist offers an allegory of displacement and transformation about a writer who leaves a thinly veiled Russia for a thinly veiled Berlin after the thinly veiled invasion of Ukraine.

New York Review Books

The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley (Apr. 14, $15.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89623-052-6). A woman attempts to find
purpose in middle age while weathering a bump in a lifelong friendship and dealing with her larger-than-life mother.

Norton

Son of Nobody by Yann Martel (Mar. 31, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-12987-5). The Life of Pi author retells the story of the Trojan
War from the perspective of a fallen warrior poet, whose poem about his experiences is discovered by a contemporary scholar.

One World

Come Undone by Eddie Huang (June 16, $29, ISBN 978-0-399-59190-7). The chef and memoirist turns to autofiction with this story of a food show host who grapples with his trauma and destructive patterns while looking for love.

Other Press

Pure Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, trans. by Lara Vergnaud (June 2, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63542-470-6). A Muslim man searches his soul after seeing video of a homophobic mob exhuming the body of a queer person from a holy site in his native Dakar.

Pantheon

Glyph by Ali Smith (May 19, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-70158-4). In this companion piece to Smith’s novel Gliff, a woman is haunted by a figure from a ghost story she made up years ago with her now estranged sister.

Penguin Press

The Monuments of Paris by Violaine Huisman (Apr. 14, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-83376-6). The French author delves into her father’s boyhood in Vichy France and her family’s mythological stories about her Belgian Jewish grandfather.

Random House

Country People by Daniel Mason (July 14, $29, ISBN 979-8-217-19745-3) follows a California family’s life-changing move to rural Vermont, where the husband and father, a floundering literature scholar, falls in with an assortment of local characters.

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (May 5, $29, ISBN 979-8-217-15474-6). The Pulitzer winner returns with a portrait of a seemingly fulfilled high school history teacher who secretly despairs, feeling he’s lost his sense of purpose.

Riverhead

Brawler: Stories by Lauren Groff (Feb. 24, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-41842-0). Per PW’s starred review, the latest from Groff is a “gorgeous collection about families transformed by desperate circumstances,” including abuse, illness, and the toxic effects of nepotism.

Scout

So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder (Feb. 17, $30, ISBN 978-1-6680-5177-1). A millennial college friend group navigate their shifting dynamics as they approach middle age in a novel anchored by backyard parties, weddings, and other opportunities for conflict and debauchery.

Scribner

The Adjunct by Maria Adelmann (Mar. 31, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-8997-2) blends a comic portrayal of the indignities and mystifying politics of academia with a complex #MeToo story about a disgraced man and his former lover.

Simon & Schuster

American Spirits by Anna Dorn (Apr. 14, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-8553-0) revolves around the fraught relationship between a
rising pop star and the superfan she recruits to assist her as she records her next album.

Soho Press

Lovers XXX by Allie Rowbottom (June 2, $29, ISBN 978-1-64129-730-1). Two young women, lifelong friends, become porn stars in early-1980s California. Decades later, they search for their second act.

St. Martin’s

Daughter of Egypt by Marie Benedict (Mar. 24, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-28073-2). Bestseller Benedict offers a parallel narrative of the reign of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s second woman pharaoh, and the woman behind the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922.

Tin House

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu (Mar. 3, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-963108-69-9). The short story writer’s surreal debut novel follows a woman who becomes unmoored after her mother’s death.

Tiny Reparations

Names Have Been Changed by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (June 23, $29, ISBN 979-8-217-17659-5). A Singaporean fugitive uses her popular podcast to dish out details of her crime and the decade she’s spent traveling around the world on the lam.

Transit

On the Other Side Is March by Sólrún Michelsen, trans. by Marita Thomsen (June 16, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89338-049-1). Faroe Islander Michelsen’s novel is narrated by a 60-something woman who reflects on a lifetime spent caring for other people.

Two Dollar Radio

Day Care: Stories by Nora Lange (Apr. 7, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-953387-57-8). The author of the breakout novel Us Fools blends realism and fabulism in stories about relationships, sex, and the search for meaning.

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