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  1. Daughters of Shandong

    Chung, Eve J.
    Penguin Publishing Group 2024

    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based...

  2. Relative Strangers

    Kim, A.H.
    Graydon House Books 2024

    From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their ex-hippie moth...

  3. Dayspring

    Oliveira, Anthony
    McClelland & Stewart 2024

    A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in col...

  4. Plastic : A Novel

    Guild, Scott
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2024

    For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destructio...

  5. Didn't See That Coming

    Sutanto, Jesse Q.
    Random House Children's Books 2023

    A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to You’ve Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she’s never met IRL until she unwittingly transfers to h...

  6. Day : A Novel

    Cunningham, Michael
    Random House Publishing Group 2023

    NATIONAL BESTELLER • An “exquisite” (The Boston Globe) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life—and how we all must learn to live together and apa...

  7. The Vulnerables : A Novel

    Nunez, Sigrid
    Penguin Publishing Group 2023

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER  NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE AND KIRKUS REVIEWSThe New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend...

  8. Same Bed Different Dreams : A Novel

    Park, Ed
    Random House Publishing Group 2023

    New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins...

  9. The Name Drop

    Lee, Susan
    Inkyard Press 2023

    "Susan Lee always writes the exact book I want to read!" —Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis New from the author of Seoulmates comes a story of...

  10. Just Do This One Thing for Me

    Zimmermann, Laura
    Penguin Young Readers Group 2023

    Hilarious, heartbreaking, and sneaky suspenseful, Just Do This One Thing for Me is a timely novel about a rule-following daughter trying to hold her family together after her scamm...

  11. After You'd Gone : A Novel

    O'Farrell, Maggie
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2023

    The stunning, groundbreaking debut novel of wrenching love and grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and National Book Circle Award Winner Hamne...

  12. The Legacies

    Goodman, Jessica
    Penguin Young Readers Group 2023

    "Our new favorite thriller." – COSMOPOLITAN A glitzy YA thriller set in New York City elite social circles, filled with backstabbing and blackmail, twisty secrets, and a dead body...

  13. Give Me a Sign

    Sortino, Anna
    Penguin Young Readers Group 2023

    Jenny Han meets CODA in this big-hearted YA debut about first love and Deaf pride at a summer camp. Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems...

  14. Paper Names : A Novel

    Luo, Susie
    Hanover Square Press 2023

    *A Reader's Digest Best Book of 2023* *A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book?**A Book of the Month Club Pick* *A Brit+Co Book to Read in 2023?**A Town & Country Best Book to Read in May* *A...

  15. Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl

    Waxelbaum, Sara; Shrum, Brianna R.
    Inkyard Press 2023

    "The most delightfully snarky romance I've read this year." —New York Times bestselling author Ashley Poston This charming YA rom-com follows Margo, who suddenly realizes that she...

  16. The Half Moon

    Keane, Mary Beth
    Scribner 2023

    "An insightful, riveting study of marriage." —People From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and "absorbing" (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a smal...

  17. The Skin and Its Girl : A Novel

    Cypher, Sarah
    Random House Publishing Group 2023

    A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt’s secrets in this “enchanting, memorable” (Bustle) debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile,...

  18. Hello Beautiful

    Napolitano, Ann
    Random House Publishing Group 2023

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! From the author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that ask...

  19. Black Dove

    McAdam, Colin
    Soho Press 2023

    “Stark and beautiful, horrifying and lyrical, Black Dove's pages thrum with flight, transformation, grief, revenge, transcendence, the remorseless power of stories and the very nat...

  20. The Chinese Groove : A Novel

    Ma, Kathryn
    Catapult 2023

    Finalist for the California Book Awards Longlisted for the Dublin Literary PrizeLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn Amazon Edi...