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Green: A Novel

Sam Graham-Felsen · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A novel of race and privilege in America that you haven't seen before: a coming-of-age story about a life-changing friendship, propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable voice "This isn't some Jedi bull****; the force I'm talking about is real, and its energies are everywhere,...
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The Music Shop: A Novel

RACHEL JOYCE · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a "great new talent."If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival...
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The Wolves of Winter: A Novel

TYRELL JOHNSON · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A captivating tale of humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, of family and bonds of love forged when everything is lost, and of a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny. This debut novel is written in a post-apocalyptic tradition that spans The Hunger...
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Best Day Ever

Kaira Rouda · Graydon House
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling, page-turning vein of The Couple Next Door and The Dinner, Kaira Rouda weaves a gripping, tautly suspenseful tale of deception and betrayal dark enough to destroy a marriage ... or a life. "I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting...
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Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel

JAMIE FORD · Ballantine Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair."An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating,...
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Dogs at the Perimeter: A Novel

MADELEINE THIEN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback

The second novel by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Madeleine Thien is "beautiful, deeply moving, [and] addresses universal questions" (Independent) .Set in Cambodia during the regime of the-Khmer Rouge and in present day Montreal, Dogs at the Perimeter tells the story...
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Without Merit: A Novel

Colleen Hoover · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth."Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness." The Voss family is anything...
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Forest Dark: A Novel

NICOLE KRAUSS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." - Philip Roth"One of America's most important novelists" (New York Times) , the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel...
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Lady Jayne Disappears

Joanna Davidson Politano · Revell
Pages: 411
Format: Paperback

When Aurelie Harcourt's father dies in debtor's prison, he leaves her just two things: his wealthy family, whom she has never met, and his famous pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Her new family greets her with apathy and even resentment. Only the quiet houseguest, Silas Rotherham, welcomes her company.When...
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Friends and Traitors

JOHN LAWTON · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

John Lawton's Inspector Troy novels are regularly singled out as a crime series of exceptional quality, by critics and readers alike. Friends and Traitors is the eighth novel in the series--which can be read in any order--a story of betrayal, espionage, and the dangers of love. London,...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is story - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual...
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Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel

Mark Helprin · The Overlook Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The magnificent new novel by the gifted, singular #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great WarMark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old...
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Home Fire: A Novel

Kamila Shamsie · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Ingenious ... Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." - The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating...
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Wonder Valley: A Novel

IVY POCHODA · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Destined to be a classic L.A. novel." - Michael ConnellyWhen a teen runs away from his father's mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.From the acclaimed...
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The Delusion: We All Have Our Demons

Laura Gallier · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

By March of Owen Edmonds's senior year, eleven students at Masonville High School have committed suicide. Amid the media frenzy and chaos, Owen tries to remain levelheaded -- until he endures his own near-death experience and wakes to a distressing new reality.The people around him suddenly...
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Something Like Happy: A Novel

Eva Woods · Graydon House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

With wry wit and boundless heart, Eva Woods delivers an unforgettable tale of celebrating triumphs great and small, seizing the day, and always remembering to live in the moment. "It's simple, really. You're just meant to do one thing every day that makes you happy. Could be little...
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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel

LOUISE ERDRICH · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.The world...
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Lies She Told

Cate Holahan · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes the truth is darker than fiction.Liza Cole has thirty days to write the thriller that could put her back on the bestseller list. In the meantime, she's struggling to start a family with her husband, who is distracted by the disappearance of his best friend, Nick. With stresses...
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The Deal of a Lifetime: A Novella

FREDRIK BACKMAN · Atria Books
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown delivers an insightful and poignant holiday novella about a man who sacrificed his family in the single-minded pursuit of success and the courageous little girl fighting for her life who crosses his path.It all begins...
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