Tash Aw’s The South is a quiet stunner about heat, hunger, and the stories families hand down. Set largely in late 1990s Malaysia, the novel follows Jay, a teenager who travels with his parents and sisters to a failing family farm after […]
Édouard Louis returns with a blistering, intimate work that reads like a reckoning. L’Effondrement is the story of an older brother who dreamed past the borders of his class and the narrow futures available to him, and of the slow collapse that […]
Elle Sprinkle skates into college romance with a confident slow burn in Like a Power Play, a sapphic hockey rom com that pairs a driven team captain with a reluctant student coach. The result is equal parts on ice grit, off ice […]
If you want a cozy sapphic romance steeped in fall vibes, Bridget Morrissey’s Everything She Does Is Magic serves pumpkin spice with a side of self discovery. Set in Fableview, a Midwestern town where every day is basically Halloween, this YA rom-com […]
Alix E. Harrow’s brisk, glittering novella takes Sleeping Beauty off the pedestal and drops her into a multiverse of girls who refuse to lie still. A Spindle Splintered is part portal fantasy, part fairy-tale critique, and part love letter to best-friend devotion, […]
Cassandra Clare’s Chain of Iron turns the screw on every promise set up in Chain of Gold. The result is a sweeping YA fantasy that mixes Edwardian glamour with murder mystery, star-crossed romance, and the kind of found family dynamics that make […]
Fatma Aydemir’s Dschinns is an extraordinary family saga that bridges continents, generations, and ghosts both literal and metaphorical. Set between Germany and Turkey in the late 1990s, it’s a sweeping, multi-voiced novel about migration, identity, grief, and the silent hauntings that shape […]
Dustin Thao returns with You’ve Found Oliver, a beautifully emotional companion novel to his breakout bestseller You’ve Reached Sam. Tender, contemplative, and full of quiet magic, this story revisits themes of love, grief, and the impossibility of holding on to what has […]
Elle Gonzalez Rose steps boldly into the world of dark academia with The Girl You Know, a haunting and emotionally charged YA thriller that explores grief, identity, and the corruption hidden behind privilege. It’s a sharp departure from her romantic comedies, but […]
Isabelle Popp’s Let’s Give ’Em Pumpkin to Talk About is a spicy, small-town romance that blends humor, heart, and just the right amount of fall coziness. With its grumpy-meets-sunshine dynamic, an eccentric Midwestern setting, and a fair dose of pumpkin-scented chaos, this […]