Above Ground
By Clint Smith
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Smith delves into the profound shifts in our world today with these poems, fearlessly exploring fatherhood and generational heritage as a person of color. His odes to weathering the journey of parenthood and almost lullabies to his child are telling of a world in progress.
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
By Shannon Chakraborty
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The greatest pirate story you have not read… yet. Chakraborty forges a nautical masterpiece ideal for fans of Sinbad the Sailor, the Jack Aubrey series, and fantasy set in the historic Muslim world.
Against the Currant
By Olivia Matthews
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Spice Isle Bakery in Brooklyn's Little Caribbean brings the delicious treats... and murder.
Age of Vice
By Deepti Kapoor
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After a speeding car kills five people late at night in New Delhi, the driver, a shell-shocked servant, is unable to explain the series of strange events that led to the crime.
All the Beauty in the World
By Patrick Bringley
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More than just a portrait of an iconic NYC locale and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard, this book is also a memoir about grief, healing, art, and reinvention.
Bad Kids
By Zijin Chen
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Translated by Michelle Deeter | Evil comes in all ages in this dark thriller that captivated China.
The Bee Sting
By Paul Murray
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Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favor to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil—can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of life?
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By Julia Lee
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Julia Lee shares her journey of self-discovery as an Asian, reckoning with the racial hierarchies and challenging the divisions of a society informed by white supremacism in this blunt and passionate memoir.
Black Observatory: Poems
By Christopher Brean Murray
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These sometimes absurd and even slightly surreal vignettes form a weird, witty, and engaging collection that often reads like well-crafted short stories. Murray has crafted an introspective work that remains clever while never taking itself too seriously.
Blackouts
By Justin Torres
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Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life.
Chain-Gang All-Stars
By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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A novel in which two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own.
The Deep Sky: A Novel
By Yume Kitasei
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The Earth is dying, and humanity places its hope on a single ship on a journey to a new home. The crew, tasked with birthing a new generation, soon finds themselves off course when a bomb is detonated, and Asuka is the prime suspect. Packed with suspense and an intricately woven plot, The Deep Sky is science fiction writing at its best.
Do a Powerbomb
By Daniel Warren Johnson
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When a necromancer makes aspiring wrestler Lona an offer she can't refuse, she must team up with her late mother's rival and enter a supernatural wrestling tournament. This heartwrenching story will appeal to both wrestling fans and the uninitiated.
Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1
By Charles Soule
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Art by Ryan Browne | If you could wish for anything in the world, what would it be? When the entire world is randomly gifted magical wish-granting genies, everything turns to chaos. This genre-defying story follows a motley crew just trying to survive in aftermath of "G-Day."
Eve
By Cat Bohannon
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An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex.
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
By Benjamin Stevenson
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In this homage to classic detective fiction, what happens when a family of killers gets snowed in at a ski resort? Murder, of course.
Everything Is Fine, Vol. 1
By Mike Birchall
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Follow a perfectly normal couple living on a perfectly normal street with perfectly normal neighbors, and perfectly normal stories within a perfectly normal police state. So it's all perfectly and completely normal.
A Fever in the Heartland
By Timothy Egan
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In the early 20th century, a charismatic conman named D.C. Stephenson became the impetus and architect of plans to bring the Ku Klux Klan out of the shadows and into the heartland of the U.S. This is the gripping story of the vulnerable woman who brought him down.
The Glutton
By A.K. Blakemore
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A historical novel set during the French Revolution is inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-consuming appetite.
The Great Displacement
By Jake Bittle
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The untold story of climate migration—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.
A Guest in the House
By Emily Carroll
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Abby is uneasy in her new role as a stepmother, and as she learns more about her husband's first wife, a strange obsession overtakes her. This visually brilliant and engaging mystery seamlessly blurs the lines between fantasy and reality.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride
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When a skeleton is unearthed in a small, close-knit Pennsylvania community in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters living on the margins of white, Christian America closely guard a secret. What happened? And what role did the town's white establishment play?
The Hive and the Honey: Stories
By Paul Yoon
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This collection of seven stories confronts themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal
By Adriana Herrera
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In 1889 Paris, heiress Manuela offers ambitious businesswoman Cora her Venezuelan property in exchange for one last thrilling summer before her impending marriage of convenience.
The Kingdom of Surfaces
By Sally Wen Mao
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Mao writes to escape being "trapped in someone else's imagination," literally shaping poems that challenge empire, cultural plunder, and the ongoing violence Asian people experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic, both in the U.S. and her birthplace of Wuhan.
Knockout
By Sarah MacLean
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In Victorian London, Tommy, a Scotland Yard detective, and Imogen, a vigilante, have been circling one another since they met. But Imogen is unsure whom she can trust as they could be tied to a string of crimes she and her friends are investigating.
Land of Milk and Honey
By C Pam Zhang
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High atop an unnamed Alp with the planet’s only breathable air, an aimless chef is hired to cook lavish meals for a mysterious cabal of plutocrats who've got a taste for weird meats—what could go wrong?
Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
By Adrian Matejka
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Art by Youssef Daoudi | Bringing to life the story of eminent boxer Jack Johnson, this book follows his epic battles against famed prizefighters and Jim Crow era inequalities. The poetic dialogue and majestically raw illustrations capture the core of Johnson's experiences, both in and out of the ring.
The Last One
By Will Dean
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Welcome to the RMS Atlantica, a ship unlike any other. We wish you fair winds and calm seas.
Listen, Beautiful Márcia
By Marcello Quintanilha
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Translated by Andrea Rosenberg | Márcia is a nurse living in a favela with her loyal boyfriend Alusio and her rebellious daughter Jacqueline, who creates trouble for them by getting involved with the local gang. This story is a gritty and human exploration of Márcia’s struggle to keep her family together.
The Man in the McIntosh Suit
By Rina Ayuyang
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Part film noir and part dizzying romance, this tale follows Bobot, Filipino American farmhand-turned-rogue investigator. With its shifting monochromatic watercolors and an expertly researched Depression-era setting, readers won't be able to put down this immigrant story.
The MANIAC
By Benjamín Labatut
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Centered on Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, a prodigy whose gifts terrified those around him, this book shows the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake, confronting us with profound questions we face as a species.
Marry Me by Midnight
By Felicia Grossman
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In Victorian London, Jewish heiress Isabelle could lose everything unless she marries the right man. She secretly enlists synagogue custodian, Aaron, to research her potential matches but she quickly finds his understated charm irresistible.
The Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed
By Noreen Mughees
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Sana embraces the prospect of an arranged marriage to secure guardianship of her brother. But when an old love unexpectedly returns, she has to make a choice between her head and her heart.
Mrs. Nash's Ashes
By Sarah Adler
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With a storm grounding planes, a former child star, a writer, and an old friend's ashes find themselves on an adventurous road trip to the Florida Keys to reunite former lovers. Along the way, they discover a heartfelt wartime love story.
My Murder: A Novel
By Katie Williams
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What if you had the chance to solve your own murder?
Nestlings
By Nat Cassidy
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The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling with mobility, her relationship with Reid, and resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear—affordable housing lottery.
The New Guy
By Sarina Bowen
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New to Brooklyn, Hudson and Gavin hit it off in a bar. They have no idea that they’re neighbors and colleagues on the same professional hockey team. Both have their own reasons to stay away, but their attraction to each other is unstoppable.
The Nigerwife: A Novel
By Vanessa Walters
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Nicole has a picture perfect life in Lagos, until she goes missing and nobody cares. It's up to her estranged aunt to look under the glamorous surface in this glitzy domestic thriller.
No Sweet Without Brine
By Cynthia Manick
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Manick embraces Black womanhood in poems that reference personal experience, social circ*mstance, and sources that range from familial diaries to Jet magazine. The resulting collection is a work that makes the personal a universal read.
Our Share of Night: A Novel
By Mariana Enriquez
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Disquieting slow burn of a horror novel set in 1980s Argentina. It starts with the story of a father and his son who is a medium and unfolds into a world of secrets and the occult.
Promises of Gold
By José Olivarez
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Olivarez reps both his Mexican American heritage and Chicago homeland in this bilingual collection that addresses immigration, capitalism, community, and belonging, writing poems that pay homage to love in all its many forms.
Prophet
By Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald
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If Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Doctor Who had a baby from The Twilight Zone, you might come close to this madcap, noir sci-fi featuring one of the genre’s more memorable romances. Weaponized nostalgia makes for an unconventional foil for our protagonists.
The Quiet Tenant
By Clémence Michallon
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“He seemed like such a nice guy.” Don’t they all?
Quiet: Poems
By Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Quiet boldly explores Black interiority, intimacy, and selfhood, navigating the tension between guarding one's inner life and the realization that silence is not protection. The tone of these poems reflects perfectly the often-fraught negotiation between one's internal self and the surrounding world.
Red Queen
By Juan Gómez-Jurado
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Forensic genius Antonia Scott and disgraced detective Jon Gutierrez must come together to catch a killer in this compelling thriller that took Spain by storm.
The Reformatory: A Novel
By Tananarive Due
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Like a haunted Nickel Boys, this fictionalized version of true events took the author 10 years to bring to fruition. You’ll be moved by this story of a boy who sees "haints."
Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair
By Mercury Stardust
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Internet sensation and Handy Ma'am Mercury Stardust has created a comprehensive beginner's guide to basic home repair, including vocabulary, equipment, and processes to tackle over 50 projects (with video links for each).
The Seven Year Slip
By Ashley Poston
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Clementine opens the door to her late aunt’s Manhattan condo… and finds herself seven years in the past. Navigating her life between past and present, she tries to reconcile the differences between the sweet guy she meets there and the man he becomes.
Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco
By K. Iver
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Combining elegy and fantasy, this collection memorializes a youthful relationship and a former lover's eventual suicide. These wistful, ethereal, and sorrowful poems are both a love letter to the Beloved and also an elegy for an imagined youth free of abuse, hom*ophobia, and fear.
Shubeik Lubeik
By Deena Mohamed
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In a parallel, modern-day Egypt, djinns and wishes are a reality. But who gets the privilege of using a wish? Can wishes really fix everything? This story shows unique and varied magical experiences in a heartfelt, bittersweet, and humorous epic tale.
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
By Anastacia-Reneé
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Anastacia-Reneé fearlessly explores the complexities of Black femme lives across time, space, and reality with an unapologetically feminist voice through these poems. This is an eclectic, well-curated archive of Black femme culture-making.
Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook
By Sohla El-Waylly
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So much more than a collection of mouthwatering recipes, Start Here is an at-home culinary master class, sharing fundamental techniques, culinary science, and tips for all cooks, from the beginner to the seasoned home chef, to level-up in the kitchen.
Starter Villain
By John Scalzi
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If you always suspected cats ruled the world, well, you weren’t wrong, as Charlie learns when he inherits his estranged uncle’s supervillain business that includes unionized dolphins, space lasers, and a formidable bodyguard.
The Talk
By Darrin Bell
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You may already know Bell for his Pulitzer Prize–winning comics, but you will soon become familiar with his incredibly moving memoir. Through his art, Bell uses his witty yet intimate voice to expose the everyday and institutionalized racism he has experienced.
Thank You for Sharing
By Rachel Runya Katz
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It all started at Jewish summer camp, and Liyah can’t let it go. However, after running into her former teenage fling turned enemy, Daniel, they agree to a truce as they work together to promote the Chicago Field museum.
Thin Skin: Essays
By Jenn Shapland
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Shapland's essays examine vulnerability and how our choices impact people, places, and species far away. Weaving together historical research, interviews, and her everyday life in New Mexico, she probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire.
This Is Salvaged: Stories
By Vauhini Vara
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Explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover and the relationships between self and others. Everyone is unmoored and searching for meaning through one another.
To Be Named Something Else
By Shaina Phenix
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Phenix's poetry struts across the page in a collection that celebrates a matriarchal lineage rooted in Harlem, with a nod to bodega etiquette and summertime fire hydrants. This exaltation of the quotidian raises common city experiences to poetic heights.
Translation State
By Ann Leckie
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It's suitably weird and she writes intergalactic diplomacy very well. Works best if you've read the Imperial Radch trilogy first.
The Trap
By Catherine Ryan Howard
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Don't get in a car with a stranger. Yet, she walks the same solitary path every night, waiting to catch a ride with a killer.
Unshuttered: Poems
By Patricia Smith
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Smith reanimates the static images of 19th-century photographs of Black men, women, and children in these ekphrastic poems that imagine lives of dignity and totality. The collection creates an intimacy with the past that resonates long after its pages are shut.
Vengeance Is Mine
By Marie NDiaye
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Translated by Jordan Stump | Hired by a man she vaguely remembers to defend his wife, who’s been accused of a horrific crime, quiet middle-aged lawyer Maître Susane finds unsettling memories coming to the surface while becoming increasingly concerned about her housekeeper’s furtive behavior.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
By Jesse Q. Sutanto
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Solving a mystery isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
We Could Be So Good
By Cat Sebastian
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In 1950s New York City, two reporters—an Italian American Brooklynite and the Upper East Side-raised son of the newspaper's owner—go from colleagues to roommates, finding friendship and more as they navigate the social norms of the era.
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By Donovan X. Ramsey
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Beginning with Reagan's war on drugs, Ramsey examines the crack epidemic. He exposes links between the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement and the consequences we live with today—a racist criminal justice system, mass incarceration, gentrification, and police brutality.
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By Kelly Link
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Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, 17th-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, this clever collection of reinvented fairy tales expertly blends realism and the speculative as characters hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their sense of purpose.
Wild Girls
By Tiya Miles
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This beautiful, meditative work of history puts women of all races—and the landscapes they loved—at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors (both nature and sports) on women's independence, resourcefulness, resistance, and vision.
With Love, from Cold World
By Alicia Thompson
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Asa and Lauren are antagonistic colleagues at a failing winter-themed amusem*nt park in Florida. Things heat up as they are forced to work together over the holidays to brainstorm ways to increase attendance.
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons
By Kelly Sue Deconnick
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Art by Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha & Nicola Scott | Steeped in Greek mythology, this book tells the formation of the Amazons through rebellious goddesses banding against the patriarchal order of Olympus. This story will entrance readers with its glorious depictions of raw feminine power.