The Old Fire (2026) Elisa Shua Dusapin "A touching, mysterious novel, imbued with the beauty and strangeness of a fairy tale."
The Original (2025) Nell Stevens "Deliciously engaging and wildly intelligent. I adored this novel about art, authenticity and desire and am a devoted fan of Nell Stevens."
Blue Light Hours (2024) Bruna Dantas Lobato "At times, reading this utterly beautiful book, I thought I could not bear the tenderness of it. Bruna Dantas Lobato has written an aching portrait of the mother and child bond, with all its love and sadness, with such wisdom and capacious humanity. The yearning in these pages will haunt me."
I Remember Fallujah (2024) Feurat Alani "A profoundly moving novel about the scars and cruelties of history, an unforgettable portrait of Iraq, and a deeply humane story of fathers and sons. I was struck by every page."
The Volcano Daughters (2024) Gina María Balibrera "Epic and intimate, alive and mournful, The Volcano Daughters is an exquisite novel teeming with life, ghosts, pain, and hope. I was swept away by its lyrical, generous storytelling. What a gorgeous, moving work."
The Coin (2024) Yasmin Zaher "Yasmin Zaher must have used electric ink to write this book. It is charged with such strangeness and humor; it glows with disobedience. A marvelous novel."
The Absolutes (2023) Molly Dektar "A thrilling novel about passion, obsession, and the unraveling of selfhood. Against a lush backdrop of Turin and New York, Molly Dektar skillfully tracks the path of yearning to its ultimate point of collapse. This is a dark, exciting, and wholly seductive work."
Collected Works (2023) Lydia Sandgren "The mystery at the heart of the story adds urgency to this warm, engaging, and funny novel about the inebriation of youth and the sobriety of middle age; about lives shaped by art and ideas; about our human flaws and joys. Collected Works is a thoroughly enjoyable book."
American Fever (2022) Dur e Aziz Amna "American Fever is an extraordinarily assured and gripping debut. The intelligence, humour and longing of Hira's voice, as she negotiates what it means to belong to a place, will certainly stay with me."
The Last Island (2022) Zülfü Livaneli "This haunting fable of a President's war against seagulls feels all the more relevant to our times in its absurdity and heartbreak. Livaneli has written a lucid account of a community's shattering alongside natural devastation. A wise and piercing book."
Seven Steeples (2022) Sara Baume "Seven Steeples is a portrait of a life, a house, a landscape, and of time itself. The accumulation of years feels palpable, as if we are watching the sifting grains of a sand clock, within this tender, hypnotic, and wholly original novel."
Out There (2022) Kate Folk "A masterclass in eeriness and perception, Out There brings our world into chilly focus through an exquisitely distorted lens."
The Four Humors (2021) Mina Seçkin "Wise and quirky, searching and warm--a novel full of heart, alive with the humors."
