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All Systems Red
MARTHA WELLS - Tor.com
Format: Paperback
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A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence."As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."In a corporate-dominated... |
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Binti
Nnedi Okorafor - Tor.com
Format: Paperback
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"Prepare to fall in love with Binti." -- Neil GaimanWinner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella!Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy.... |
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Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once... |
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Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan Mcguire - Tom Doherty Associates
Format: Print book
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Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No QuestsChildren have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere...... |
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Fever Dream: A Novel
Samanta Schweblin - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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"Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." - Vanity Fair"Genius." - Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's... |
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Follow Me to Ground: A Novel
Sue Rainsford - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal - one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency. Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village... |
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God Help the Child: A novel
Toni Morrison - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child - the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment - weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black... |
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Ghost Wall: A Novel
Sarah Moss - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behaviorThe light blinds you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization,... |
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Shirley Jackson's The Lottery: A Graphic Adaptation
Miles Hyman - Turtleback Books; Library ed. edition
Format: Library Binding
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This graphic adaptation, published in time for Jackson's centennial, allows readers to experience "The Lottery" as never before, or discover it anew. The visual artist - and Jackson's grandson - Miles Hyman has crafted an eerie vision of the hamlet where the tale unfolds,... |
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So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell - Vintage; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson... |
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The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through... |
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
Neil Gaiman - William Morrow
Format: Book
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal... |
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The Vegetarian
Kang Han - Hogarth
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * "[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation." - Entertainment Weekly "Ferocious." - The New York... |
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