Songs of No Provenance (2025) Lydi Conklin "Joan Vole is an indelible character, flawed and contradictory and utterly compelling. She is the beating heart of Songs of No Provenance, an expansive novel about ambition and art, love and transgression. Lydi Conklin writes with verve, precision, and the kind of tenderness that takes your breath away."
Havoc (2024) Christopher Bollen "Havoc is delicious, wicked, and utterly brilliant - a novel about age and power, a battle between two ruthless and fascinating minds. It sank its teeth into me from the first page, and didn't let go."
Small Rain (2024) Garth Greenwell "Greenwell writes with exquisite precision about pain and loss-but his novel is equally a meditation on joy, beauty, and above all, love. Small Rain is a triumph, one of the most deeply moving books I have read in a long time."
There are Rivers in the Sky (2024) Elif Shafak "From its bravura opening through to its final pages, There Are Rivers in the Sky is a dazzling achievement. Shafak's imagination is a wonder: bold, capacious, beautiful and wise."
The Coin (2024) Yasmin Zaher "The Coin is a brilliant, audacious, powerhouse of a novel. A story of obsession and appetite, politics and class, it is deliciously unruly. An exceptional debut by an outrageous new talent."
The Anthropologists (2024) Ayşegül Savaş "The Anthropologists is about love, youth, and that most profound and elusive of subjects-happiness. Full of delicacy, wisdom and wit, this is another gorgeous work from one of my favorite writers."
The Limits (2024) Nell Freudenberger "Freudenberger's exceptional skills as a novelist, her seamless prose and formidable intelligence, are on full display in The Limits. A novel about privilege and precarity, isolation and trauma, it is also a story of tenderness, love, and ultimately, hope."
My Beloved Life (2024) Amitava Kumar "What makes a life? My Beloved Life addresses this most fundamental of questions with all of Amitava Kumar's trademark wisdom and wit. A novel of vaulting ambition and tenderness, about how histories, both personal and national, are built, refracted, and revised."
The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024) Jennifer Croft "A wild and wonderfully unruly novel about translation and transmission, The Extinction of Irena Rey is a showcase for Jennifer Croft's acrobatic intellect, delicious humor and voluptuous prose."
Land of Milk and Honey (2023) C Pam Zhang "A book of appetite, rich with ideas and emotion. Zhang possesses a wonderfully bold and playful imagination; this novel is further proof of her extraordinary talent."
Lucky Dogs (2023) Helen Schulman "Lucky Dogs is dazzling - a propulsive novel brimming with insight into power, betrayal, and obsession. It's a showcase for Schulman's extraordinary gifts as a writer: her sharp observation, buoyant wit, and unfailing empathy."
Small Worlds (2023) Caleb Azumah Nelson "Small Worlds is a miracle of observation, of attention and attunement. Caleb Azumah Nelson writes prose that is unmatched in its musicality and sensitivity. A gorgeous, rhapsodic, wise novel."
Ten Planets (2023) Yuri Herrera "Brilliant, ecstatic, and playful, Ten Planets is the work of one of the most original and prodigiously gifted writers at work today. The grammar of a nose, a skeleton in a shoebox, a consciousness acquiring bacterium, and a sentient house - the infinite worlds of Ten Planets are further proof that Herrera is a writer of boundless talent."
Like Me (2022) Hayley Phelan "Hayley Phelan's Like Me is whip-smart and savage. Equal parts thriller and critique, this is an adrenaline shot of a novel."
Something New Under the Sun (2021) Alexandra Kleeman "Written with tremendous verve and flair, Something New Under the Sun is both an urgent novel about our very near future and a deeply addictive pleasure. Constantly surprising and endlessly inventive, every page is saturated with wit, intelligence, and extraordinary prose. Kleeman is a phenomenon, one of the most brilliant and gifted writers at work today."
Filthy Animals (2021) Brandon Taylor "A dazzling showcase for Brandon Taylor's formidable talents--his fierce intellect, his emotional and linguistic precision, his dry and unflinching humor. He is a writer of rare daring, his fiction a series of revelations."
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (2021) Rivka Galchen "I cannot think of a more singular writer than Rivka Galchen. Here, she brings her forensic intelligence and wit to a historical novel that sheds bright light on our present. Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch is fiercely original, a mordant and ultimately devastating portrait of loss and terror from one of the most brilliant writers at work today."
Memorial (2020) Bryan Washington "Tender like a bruise, Memorial is a novel of uncommon depth and feeling. It is about everything that matters in life: love, loss, community and communion. Bryan Washington will take your breath away."
Luster (2020) Raven Leilani "Raven Leilani is a writer of unusual daring, with a voice that is unique and fully formed. There is humor, intelligence, emotion, and power in her work. I cannot think of a writer better suited to capture our moment."
Braised Pork (2020) An Yu "Bold yet understated, Braised Pork is the debut of a supremely confident and gifted writer."
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