A vivacious woman falls in love with a priest in 1950s England in the emotive and revelatory debut novel from poet Sy-Quia (Amnion). At a funeral in 2018, Adrian Fletcher learns the family secret that his long-deceased grandfather David left the Catholic priesthood to marry his grandmother ... Continue reading »

Sullivan keeps his hot streak alive with the crafty fifth case for neurodivergent detective George Cross of the Avon and Somerset police (after The Politician). Cross’s colleagues call him in when they discover the corpse of Brother Dominic, a monk who’d recently been reported missing, tied... Continue reading »

Kim makes her English-language debut with this exceptional collection of speculative shorts about scientific advancement and human limitations. The protagonists of these seven show-stopping pieces take great risks to achieve the impossible, only to butt up against humanity’s self-imposed barriers. I... Continue reading »

The glimmering and surprisingly gritty latest from Hall (Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot) is a queer historical romance that tends slightly darker than the average genre fare. In 19th-century London, Michael “Micha” Dashwood is a sex worker whose addiction to opium has led him to illness and dest... Continue reading »

Nothing comes easy for the denizens of Hamilton, Ontario, in these wry, bruising, and mordantly funny stories from Ollmann (Fictional Father). In “Nestled All Snug,” a toppled pile of boxes traps a bookstore employee in a dingy staff bathroom. In “Meat,” a security guard at a meat-packing f... Continue reading »

Ondaatje (A Year of Last Things) presents a superb and comprehensive collection of selected works, or “condensary of time,” that crystallizes for devotees and new readers alike the poet’s lifelong devotion to place. “From now on I will drink my landscapes,” he writes, “here, pour me a cup o... Continue reading »

In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »

In 1776, 23-year-old Quaker Jemima Wilkinson awoke from a deadly illness transformed into a genderless messenger from God named Universal Friend, also known as Public Universal Friend. In this riveting biography, historian Sankovitch (American Rebels) brings to vivid life the striking minis... Continue reading »

Council devotes her warmhearted debut to the culinary heritage passed down by her mother, Mildred Council, the restaurateur behind North Carolina’s Mama Dip’s Kitchen, which closed in 2025 after a 50-year run. Drawing on food traditions from Chapel Hill’s Northside Black community, these 100 recipes... Continue reading »

In her penetrating debut, physician Lee uses the Japanese art of kintsugi, the practice of mending broken pottery with gold lacquer, to illustrate how she repaired a faith fractured by a childhood steeped in Western theology. Lee grew up in an immigrant church in Iowa that practiced Chinese customs ... Continue reading »

A straightforward and inclusive message distinguishes this powerfully wrought narrative definition of “we” from Reeves, making his picture book debut, and Tonatiuh (Game of Freedom), which opens with the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble. A clear concept serves as the work’s opening and concludi... Continue reading »