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August 28

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Cora is a slave on a cotton...
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September 25

This Is How It Always Is: A Novel

Laurie Frankel · Flatiron Books
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

"It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think." -- Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies

This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them.

This is how...

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October 30

Imagine Me Gone

Adam Haslett · Little
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

"Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization."--Wall Street Journal

"Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone, Haslett has reached...
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November 27

Flood: A Novel

Melissa Scholes Young · Center Street
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A sparkling debut set in Mark Twain's boyhood town, Flood is a story of what it means to be lost . . . and found.Laura Brooks fled her hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, ten years ago after a historic flood and personal heartbreak. Now she's returned unannounced, and her family...
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