Booker Prize winner Stuart (Shuggie Bain) showcases his impressive gift for characterization in this perceptive and propulsive story of a tight-knit community of Gaelic-speaking sheep farmers and weavers on the remote Scottish isle of Harris. When John-Calum “Cal” Macleod returns from colle... Continue reading »

In this barn burner of a novel from Walsh (The Love of My Life), a woman unearths disturbing truths about her short-lived first marriage. In 2022, former surgeon Carrie Cole leads a sedate life in Devon, England, with her second husband, Robin, and their young twins. With Robin struggling t... Continue reading »

Kelli Reynolds, the autistic heroine of this thrilling, prescient, and emotionally rich sci-fi adventure from Hoffmann (The Outside), is one of the few humans on Jupiter “talented enough to get a steady wage for the kind of work a machine couldn’t do.” She works as a script supervisor for a... Continue reading »

Dripping with suspense and sensuality, this standalone Regency from bestseller James (the Accidental Brides series) proves she remains at the top of her game. Genevieve “Evie” Hughes marries the decades older, thrice-widowed Lord Burnsby, whom she believes to be kind and harmless, in exchange for hi... 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 »

This monumental volume of Levis’s collected works is a study in the development and deepening of his gifts, from his debut in 1972 to poems published following his death in 1996. Levis’s bruised, engrossing voice suggests the “long, volleying/ Echoes of billiards in the pool halls where/ I spent it ... 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 »

Actor and novelist O’Connell (Just by Looking at Him) reflects in this smart and funny collection on navigating relationships, addiction, and Hollywood as a gay man with disabilities. Born with cerebral palsy in 1986, O’Connell was hit by a car at age 20, which caused him to develop a muscl... 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 »

In the spirit of Being Ace, Dyer (These Bodies Ain’t Broken) and Thor (This Is How We Roll) gather 13 writers, including Isa Fiel, Laura Pohl, and Rukman Ragas, to present an impassioned anthology about aromantic teens that explores a range of experiences across varying ge... Continue reading »