In what has proved to be an endlessly trying year, we hope this list—which contains more than 175 books—will provide opportunities for you to be delighted, excited, and surprised.
Our list's true newcomers are Matt Bell and Sequoia Nagamatsu, who join in the sixth and tenth positions for 'Refuse to Be Done' and 'How High We Go in the Dark,' respectively.
Crime fiction may desire order out of chaos, but true crime grapples with the chaos while hoping for catharsis in the meantime. These books helped me make sense of the world's darkest corners.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, if your ghost is reading this, take consolation in the fact that Ed Simon’s piece got Millions readers so excited about your work that for five months they dutifully purchased copies of your 100-year-old book.
The paradox of imagined apocalypses is that they’re always more about the present than the future. Here's a list of a few haunting and evocative titles.
February brings new work from Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Haigh, and Marlon James, and moving debuts from Kiare Ladner, Maayan Eitan, and Neda Toloui-Semnani.
Adoption narratives, genre-bending novels about the horrors and inequities of life, and promising collections round out this season’s notable fiction debuts.