Anna Dorn is the author of EXALTED, BAD LAWYER, and VAGABLONDE. She was a Lambda Literary Fellow and EXALTED was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.
Her neW book is PERFUME & PAIN from Simon & Schuster.
Kill Dick (2026) Luke Goebel "Luke Goebel's delirious debut novel festers in the sun-sick, dissociative Southern California of Joan Didion and Bret Easton Ellis. In Kill Dick, Los Angeles is hell, and Susie Vogelman is its most reluctant angel: vacant, brilliant, heartbreaking."
Bad Nature (2025) Ariel Courage "Ariel Courage's writing is so self-assured, so piercing. She's like Ottessa Moshfegh's environmentally conscious cousin. Unflinching and darkly funny, Bad Nature is a staggering debut."
Paradise Logic (2025) Sophie Kemp "I devoured Sophie Kemp's charming, peculiar, and hilarious debut novel, Paradise Logic. Her iconic heroine Reality Kahn recalls Mary Robison's Money Breton and Lena Dunham's Sarah Jo, but ultimately, Kemp's novel is sui generis."
Something Rotten (2025) Andrew Lipstein "Andrew Lipstein's Something Rotten follows a man who's recently been canceled--a word that had 'long become meaningless . . . a relic from another time, like yuppie, hipster, millennial'--and his exhausted wife as they flee New York with their baby for a summer in Copenhagen. There, Lipstein weaves a twisty tale exploring masculinity, deceit, and love with cutting precision."
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey (2025) Astrid Dahl "Secrets, gallows humor, campy reality TV stars, and an Instagram gossip account called 'Shady Di' - Astrid Dahl's The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey is the kind of book I wanted to live inside. LOLing and gasping my way through, I nearly wished I'd written it myself!"
Let Me Try Again (2024) Matthew Davis "Matthew Davis's singular voice gripped me from the first page and didn't let go. I adored this off-kilter, hilarious, and surprisingly vulnerable novel."
A Good Happy Girl (2024) Marissa Higgins "Combining the bleak New England edge of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen with the sapphic psychodrama of Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite, Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl is fearless, twisted, and shockingly tender. A fantastic and moving debut."
The Band (2024) Christine Ma-Kellams "Equal parts academic and cheeky, Christine Ma-Kellams' debut novel The Band is the perfect companion for brainy pop culture heads, my people."
Interesting Facts about Space (2024) Emily Austin "Tensely plotted and full of heart, Emily Austin's second novel follows another endearing heroine I'd follow to outer space and beyond."
Kids Run the Show (2023) Deplhine de Vigan "Following a social media star and a petite cop linked in a tragic kidnapping, Delphine de Vigan's Kids Run The Show is spooky and wry, haunting and detached, bleak but chic. I loved it."
The House in the Pines (2023) Ana Reyes "Ana Reyes' debut is chilling, atmospheric, and addictive - a perfect thriller. I didn't want it to end."
