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The Liar

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant fable about the lure of lying and the lure of fame. The writing is wonderful." --Joan Silber, National Book Critics Circle and PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of ImprovementFrom the award-winning author of Waking Lions, a provocative...
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories

Lesley Nneka Arimah - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club PickA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREEWINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZEWINNER OF THE NYPLS YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARDFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEA dazzlingly...
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Dark Promises

Christine Feehan - Jove Pubns
Format: Print book

Lovers challenge destiny and risk their lives in the new Carpathian novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling "queen of paranormal romance."* Gabrielle has had enough of battles, of wars, of seeing the Carpathian warrior she loves nearly lose his life when it isn't even...
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The Unicorn Anthology

Peter S. Beagle - Tachyon Publications
Format: Paperback

"What a treasure trove!" -- Sarah Beth Durst, author of Queen of the Blood Unicorns: Not just for virgins anymore. Here are sixteen lovely, powerful, intricate, and unexpected unicorn tales from fantasy icons including Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, Patricia A. McKillip, Bruce...
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Killing Commendatore: A novel

Haruki Murakami - Vintage
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - from one of our greatest writers. * "Exhilarating ... magical." - The Washington PostWhen a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world...
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The Philosopher's War

Tom Miller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the thrilling series that began with The Philosopher's Flight finds Robert Canderelli Weekes as a rookie Rescue and Evacuation flier on the front lines of World War I in France. He came to save lives, but has no idea how far he'll have to go to win the war.Thanks...
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The Philosopher's Flight: A Novel

TOM MILLER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Rarely does a novel begin with rollicking fierceness that grabs readers from its opening lines and doesn't loosen its grip or lessen its hold all the way through ... Miller's writing is intoxicating and one doesn't need to be a fantasy or sci-fi fan to adore this book." - Kim Curtis,...
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The Winter of the Witch: A Novel

KATHERINE ARDEN - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias,...
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A Pocketful of Crows

Joanne Harris - Gollancz
Format: Hardcover

I am as brown as brown can be,And my eyes as black as sloe;I am as brisk as brisk can be,And wild as forest doe. (The Child Ballads, 295) So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth...
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Gather the Fortunes

Bryan Camp - John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Renaissance Raines has found her place among the psychopomps - the guides who lead the souls of the recently departed through the Seven Gates of the Underworld - and done her best to avoid the notice of gods and mortals alike. But when a young boy named Ramses St. Cyr manages to escape...
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On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

Chang-rae Lee - Riverhead Trade
Format: Print book

Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, Chang-rae Lee has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lonely human...
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Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

Kate Racculia - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A dying billionaire sends one woman and a cast of dreamers and rivals on a citywide treasure hunt in this irresistible novel by the author of Bellweather Rhapsody.Tuesday Mooney is a loner. She keeps to herself, begrudgingly socializes, and spends much of her time watching old Twin...
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Severance: A Novel

Ling Ma - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan...
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Dark Age: Book 5 of the Red Rising Saga

PIERCE BROWN - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue...
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Wanderers: A Novel

Chuck Wendig - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes an astonishing tapestry of humanity that Harlan Coben calls "a suspenseful, twisty, satisfying, surprising, thought-provoking...
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Walkaway: A Novel

Cory Doctorow - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Kirkus Best Fiction of 2017. From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.. "Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle."...
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Arrival

Ted Chiang - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve."Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales . . . Ted Chiang...
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The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: A Novel

Michael David Lukas - Random House
Format: Hardcover

In this "wonderfully rich" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the author of the internationally bestselling The Oracle of Stamboul, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. "This book is a joy." - Rabih Alameddine, author...
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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Number one New York Times best sellerOprahs Book Club PickFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom."This potent book about Americas most disgraceful...
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Thirteen

Richard K. Morgan - Del Rey; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The future isn’t what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs–private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero–into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken...
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Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

JOYCE CAROL OATES - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates "Time travel" - and its hazards - are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic...
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2017

Julie E. Czerneda - Pyr
Format: Paperback

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) . This year's editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee...
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Census

JESSE BALL - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of townsWhen a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn't have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will...
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Deep River

Karl Marlantes - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling -- the family epic -- to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention.In...
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Zolitude

Paige Cooper - Biblioasis
Format: Paperback

Paige Cooper's short stories catalogue moments in love. These are stories about women who built time machines when they were nine, or who predict cataclysm, or who think their dreams are reality. They include police horses with talons and giant eagles and weredeer. At the center of it all is love....
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The Last Book Party

Karen Dukess - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

*A July 2019 Indie Next List Great Read* *One of Parade's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2019* *An O Magazine Best Beach Read of 2019**A New York Post Best Beach Read of 2019* "The Last Book Party is a delight. Reading this story of a young woman trying...
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Guardian Angels and Other Monsters

Daniel H Wilson - Vintage
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL.In "All Kinds of Proof,"...
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The Big Book of Classic Fantasy

Ann VanderMeer - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things...
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Mouthful of Birds: Stories

Samanta Schweblin - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star.Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection....
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The Judge Hunter

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a king.London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne....
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Kingdom of the Young

Edie Meidav - Sarabande Books
Format: Print book

"Ambitious, original, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the crnicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino." - Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the RevolutionThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching:...
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Red Clocks: A Novel

LENI ZUMAS - Lee Boudreaux Books
Format: Hardcover

Five women. One question. What is a woman forIn this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five...
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Djinn City

Saad Hossain - The Unnamed Press
Format: Paperback

From the author of the cult classic Escape from Baghdad!Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. A drunken...
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Ready Player One

ERNEST CLINE - Broadway Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The bestselling cult classic - soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying...
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The Ruin of Kings

Jenn Lyons - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Jenn Lyons begins The Godslayer Cycle with The Ruin of Kings, an epic fantasy novel about a man who discovers his fate is tied to the future of an empire. Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. When he is claimed against his will...
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How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories

N. K. Jemisin - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

Three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection...
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Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones

BALLANTINE. - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones. With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R. R. Martin, this...
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The Witchwood Crown

Tad Williams - DAW
Format: Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams' ground-breaking epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle! * Volume One of The Last King of Osten ArdThe Dragonbone Chair, the first volume of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, was published in hardcover in October, 1988,...
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Bird Box: A Novel

Josh Malerman - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world - a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.Something is out there...
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Muck: A Novel

Dror Burstein - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. God is showing some rare good taste, by choosing to speak to us through Dror Burstein." -- Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings and Book...
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The Boy on the Bridge

M. R. Carey - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

From the author of USA Today bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts, a terrifying new novel set in the same post-apocalyptic world.Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their...
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The Scent Keeper: A Novel

Erica Bauermeister - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reeses Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives.. Emmeline lives on a remote island...
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The Distance Home: A Novel

Paula Saunders - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A "riveting family saga" (Mary Karr) , set in the American West, about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl's struggle with freedom and artistic desire In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions...
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Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell

KEVIN HEARNE - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

In an irreverent new series in the tradition of Terry Pratchett novels and The Princess Bride, the New York Times bestselling authors of the Iron Druid Chronicles and Star Wars: Phasma reinvent fantasy, fairy tales, and floridly overwritten feast scenes. Once upon...
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The Grand Dark

Richard Kadrey - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

rom the bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built off the insurgent tradition of China Mieville and M. John Harrison - a subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony...
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The Water Cure: A Novel

Sophie Mackintosh - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"An extraordinary otherworldly debut... [Mackintosh] is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world: everything is luminous, precise, slow to the point of dread."--The GuardianThe Handmaid's Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic...
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Theory of Bastards

AUDREY SCHULMAN - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback

"Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is bacon rinds for breakfast and feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing ability to walk across a room...
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

John Joseph Adams (Editor) - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

"This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre and celebrates its current renaissance." - Washington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms...
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Olympus Bound

Jordanna Max Brodsky - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

The Immortals is a lively re-imagining of classical mythology with an engaging premise, a page-turning plot, and an eye for the arresting and uncanny in contemporary urban life." --Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of WitchesManhattan has many secrets....
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Supper Club

Lara Williams - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?Roberta spends her life trying...
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All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel

Elan Mastai - Dutton
Format: Print book

"There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have ... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where...
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Heart of Black Ice

Terry Goodkind - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Heart of Black Ice is the climactic conclusion to Terry Goodkind's New York Times bestselling Nicci Chronicles.In the wake of the brutal war that swept the Old World in Siege of Stone, a new danger is forming along the coast. Taken captive by their enemies, King Grieve,...
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Gnomon: A novel

Nick Harkaway - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle--set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state.In...
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The Baghdad Clock

SHAHAD AL RAWI - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION 2018 For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid...
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Supernatural Sherlocks: Stories from The Golden Age of the Occult Detective

Nick Rennison - No Exit
Format: eBook

The ghost of a poor Afghan returns to haunt the doctor who once amputated his hand. A mysterious and malignant force inhabits a room in an ancestral home and attacks all who sleep in it. A man who desecrates an Indian temple is transformed into a ravening beast. A castle in the Tyrol is the setting...
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The Martian

Andy Weir
Format: Print book

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone...
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Autonomous

Annalee Newitz - Tor Books
Format: Paperback

Autonomous is the highly anticipated debut from science journalist and founder of the science and sci-fi blog io9 Annalee Newitz, a novel that explores humanity's technology and culture in a future where everything--and everyone--is a product.Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist...
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Someone Like Me

M.R. Carey - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the million-copy bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts comes a heart-stopping high-concept thriller with a gripping supernatural twist that you won't see coming.SHE LOOKS LIKE ME. SHE SOUNDS LIKE ME. NOW SHE'S TRYING TO TAKE MY PLACE.Liz Kendall wouldn't hurt...
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The Dreamers: A Novel

Karen Thompson Walker - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles comes a mesmerizing novel about a town transformed by a mysterious sickness that locks victims in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams. One night in an isolated college town in the hills...
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The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror

Mallory Ortberg - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alien -- from Mallory Ortberg, author of Texts From Jane Eyre.From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly...
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The City of Lost Fortunes

BRYAN CAMP - John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding...
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Three Years with the Rat: A Novel

Jay Hosking - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." -- Blake Crouch, author of Dark MatterAfter several years of drifting...
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Dungeons & Dragons Ghosts of Saltmarsh Hardcover Book (D&D Adventure)

Wizards RPG Team - Wizards of the Coast
Format: Hardcover

Explore the waves above and the fathoms below in these watery adventures for the world's greatest roleplaying game. "D&D acolytes are everywhere...Tech workers from Silicon Valley to Brooklyn have long-running campaigns, and the showrunners and the novelist behind 'Game of Thrones'...
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Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer ... a profound experience." - The Washington Post Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is...
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How to Stop Time

MATT HAIG - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations ... .A delightfully witty ... poignant novel." - The Washington Post "She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going...
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Waste Tide

Chen Qiufan - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers.Mimi is a 'waste girl.' A member...
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The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

*Winner of the 2018 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director*Now a major motion picture from Fox SearchlightVisionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking audiobook.The Shape of Water is set in Cold...
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The Kingdom of Copper

S A CHAKRABORTY - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass - "the best adult fantasy I've read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir) - conjuring...
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Ender's Game Gift Edition

Orson Scott Card - Tor Books; Gift Edition edition
Format: Book

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsFor the perfect holiday gift for the reader on your list, pick up this special gift edition of one of the most beloved Science Fiction novels ever written.Andrew Ender Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games at the Battle School he is, in fact,...
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Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A Heinlein
Format: Print book

Valentine Michael Smith arrives from Mars, to visit Earth. His arrival sparks off all the things you'd imagine - excitement, horror and greed. A tremendous satire of human weaknesses, now expanded with up to 30,000 extra words. The author also wrote "Starman Jones" and &
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel

HANK GREEN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green - cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow - spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly...
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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut - part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots,...
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Demi-Gods: A Novel

Eliza Robertson - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A bold debut novel for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Edan Lepucki's California--a story of love, lust, and the spaces in between, from a "captivating" (NYTBR) new voice in fiction.It is 1950, and nine-year-old Willa's sheltered childhood is about to come to an end when...
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Costalegre

Courtney Maum - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

Sinuous and striking, heartbreaking and strange, Costalegre is heavily inspired by the real-life relationship between the heiress Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter, Pegeen. Acclaimed author Courtney Maum triumphs with this wildly imaginative and curiously touching story of a privileged...
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Cold Storage: A Novel

David Koepp - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. Now,...
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Take Us to Your Chief: And Other Stories: Classic Science-Fiction with a Contemporary First Nations Outlook

Drew Hayden Taylor - D & M Publishers
Format: Paperback

A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs....
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Gingerbread: A Novel

Helen Oyeyemi - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventive ... [Helen Oyeyemis] prose is not without its playful bite." -Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours...
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Exhalation: Stories

Ted Chiang - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival) , the long-awaited new collection...
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Of Blood and Bone: Chronicles of the One, Book 2

NORA ROBERTS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magick in a brand new world.
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Red Clocks: A Novel

Leni Zumas
Format: Paperback(Reprint)

A National BestsellerA New York Times Editor's ChoiceA Time Magazine Best Book of the YearAn Amazon Best Book of the MonthAn Indie Next PickOne of Wall Street Journal's Twelve Books to Read This WinterAn Esquire most anticipated book of 2018An Elle Best Book of Winter A Popsugar...
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Unholy Land

Lavie Tidhar - Tachyon Publications
Format: Paperback

"Lavie Tidhar does it again. Magnificent." -- Warren EllisLior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father.Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina -- a Jewish...
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The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel

Imogen Hermes Gowar - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction * A Refinery 29 Favorite Book of the Year * A BOOKLIST Top 10 First Novels of the Year * A People Best Book of the Fall"Wonderful ... completely transporting." - Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe...
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The Coincidence Makers

YOAV BLUM - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In this genre-bending novel, there is no such thing as chance and every action is carefully executed by highly trained agents. You'll never looks at coincidences the same way again.What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just...
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The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel

James Howard Kunstler - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

From renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, The Harrows of Spring is a moving and gripping novel that completes the story of the quaint upstate New York town of Union Grove, thrown into a future world that in many ways resembles the nineteenth...
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Sorority

GENEVIEVE SLY CRANE - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

Prep meets Girls in White Dresses in Genevieve Sly Crane's deliciously addictive, compulsively readable exploration of female friendship and coming of age that will appeal to anyone who has ever been curious about what goes on in a sorority house ... Margot is dead. There's...
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The World Is a Narrow Bridge

Aaron Thier - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"A book that looks at existence with equal measures of fear, humility and gratitude. In a time when novelists tend to be more concerned with psychology than the soul, that makes it a rare and valuable thing." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street JournalFrom the author of Mr. Eternity, a darkly...
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The Shepherd's Hut: A Novel

Tim Winton
Format: Paperback

From Tim Winton, Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist and the author of Cloudstreet, comes The Shepherd's Hut, the story of a young man on a thrilling journey of self-discovery in one of the harshest, near-uninhabitable climates on Earth.Tim Winton is Australia's...
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Exit Strategy

Charlton Pettus - Hanover Square
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes you just need to escape. For crooked politicians, military brass from third-world nations, and white-collar criminals looking to avoid either prison or a deadlier form of payback, there's Exit Strategy. With just one call, Exit Strategy helps these wealthy-but-wanted types disappear...
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Highland Dragon Rebel

Isabel Cooper - Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Madoc of Avandos is on a journey to cement alliances. Targeted by an assassin, he needs a companion who can fight. When dragon shifter Moiread MacAlasdair returns from war, he knows she's the best woman for the job. Duty and political strength compel Moiread to agree, but when they cross...
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Happiness for Humans

P Z Reizin - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

When Tom and Jen, two lonely people, are brought together by an intriguing email, they have no idea their mysterious benefactor is an artificial intelligence who has decided to play Cupid. "You, Tom and Jen, don't know one another-not yet-but I think you should." Jen,...
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We Can Save Us All

Adam Nemett - Brilliance Audio
Format: Paperback

"Nemetts wondrously fresh novel positively bursts with charm, heart, and invention." (BOOKLIST , starred review) Welcome to The Egg, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual...
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The Bard's Blade

Brian D. Anderson - Tor Books
Format: Paperback

The Bard's Blade is the start of the new Sorcerer's Song fantasy adventure series from Brian D. Anderson, bestselling author of The Godling Chronicles and Dragonvein.Mariyah enjoys a simple life in Vylari, a land magically sealed off from the outside world, where fear and hatred...
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The Testament of Loki

Joanne Harris - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

In the sequel to The Gospel of Loki, Lokis adventures continue when he finds a way out of the end of the world and plans to restart the power of the Norse gods.The end of the world - also known as Ragnarok to the Norse gods - has occurred, and Loki has been trapped in a seemingly endless...
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The Stolen Child: A Novel

Lisa Carey - Harper Perennial
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants lives and tangled relationships - perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey, Sarah...
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The Martian

Andy Weir - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone...
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The Hive

Orson Scott Card - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic...
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Flights: Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner

Olga Tokarczuk - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE. A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) . "A magnificent writer." - Svetlana Alexievich,...
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Rainbirds

Clarissa Goenawan - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover

Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan's dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man's path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister's murder. Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his sister's violent...
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Gather the Daughters: A Novel

JENNIE MELAMED - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real Simple best book of the monthPeople Magazine's Book of the WeekYears ago, just before the country was incinerated...
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Westside

W.M. Akers - Harper Voyager
Format: Book

A young detective who specializes in “tiny mysteries” finds herself at the center of a massive conspiracy in this beguiling historical fantasy set on Manhattan’s Westside—a peculiar and dangerous neighborhood home to strange magic and stranger residents—that...

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