Close Relationships with Strangers (2026) Krista Diamond "Close Relationships with Strangers is a taut, mesmerizing portrait of a photographer undone by the images he pursues. An elegant exploration of desire and delusion, Krista Diamond's debut is as haunting as it is humane."
Mona Acts Out (2025) Mischa Berlinski "I'm head over heels for this witty, tender, keenly intelligent exploration of art, artifice, and the human heart. Mischa Berlinski is a masterful and deeply empathetic storyteller, and Mona Acts Out is a pure delight."
The Nude (2024) C Michelle Lindley "In sumptuous, lyrical prose, C. Michelle Lindley excavates thorny questions of art, ownership, and agency. At once cerebral and hallucinatory, seductive and unsettling, THE NUDE is a fever dream of a debut."
A Good Happy Girl (2024) Marissa Higgins "A Good Happy Girl is at once a darkly erotic tale, a portrait of a woman on the brink, and a searching exploration of intergenerational poverty and abuse. This is a taut, thorny, and utterly thrilling debut."
The Centre (2023) Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi "What begins as a darkly propulsive thriller gradually reveals itself to be a haunting and incisive meditation on language, translation, identity, and the far-reaching reverberations of colonialism. The Centre is a wickedly ingenious debut that, like the mysterious institution at its heart, is far more complex than it first appears."
Search History (2023) Amy Taylor "Incisive and clever, Search History examines how the internet has transformed modern romance into a hall of mirrors and brims with humor, insight, and uncomfortable truths."
The Adult (2023) Bronwyn Fischer "A haunting tale of love, heartbreak, and deceit. In precise, lyrical prose, Bronwyn Fischer captures Natalie's growing pains in all their hilarity, devastation, and piercing tenderness. This is an electric debut."
The Fake (2023) Zoe Whittall "I devoured this wild ride of a novel about one woman's outrageous web of lies and the people caught in it. The Fake is a mordantly funny tale, as enthralling as it is emotionally astute."
Endpapers (2023) Jennifer Savran Kelly "A mystery wrapped in a love story wrapped in an artist's coming of age, Endpapers is an ode to queer joy and the messiness of selfhood. With tenderness and insight, Jennifer Savran Kelly explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden - and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."
