55 books
Vijay Khurana
Two teenagers, Adam and Teddy, in a small town at the end of a summer. Adam is the one with the ideas, deep in video games and internet grievance; Teddy is the one who goes along to see what happens.…
Stephen Graham Jones
In 1912, a Lutheran pastor in Montana takes the confession of a Blackfeet man named Good Stab, who comes to the church weekly and tells his story in pieces. Good Stab is a vampire, made by a white creature he…
Ling Ling Huang
Enka grows up on the poor side of a walled city in Florida, gets a scholarship to an elite art school, and immediately fixes on Mathilde, the prodigy everyone else is afraid to approach. Mathilde is genuinely great and genuinely…
Janice Hallett
Hallett builds novels out of documents, and this one is a mixed-media master’s course file: Six students, their emails, group chat, forum posts, submitted essays, and the tutor’s marking notes, all bundled and handed to an external examiner months after…
Lev Grossman
I don’t know how I stumbled upon this book, because I mostly left my interest in fantasy behind in my teens (talkin’ to you, Tolkien). But, wow. I couldn’t put The Bright Sword down and even raved about it to…
Franziska Gänsler
Iris runs a hotel in Bad Heim, a German spa town six hours from Berlin that used to be a place people came to. Now the fires burn across the river every summer, the smoke never clears, people wear masks…
Ashley Elston
Evie Porter is a con artist, and Evie Porter isn’t her name. She works for a man she’s never met who calls himself Mr. Smith. He hands her a town, an identity with a manufactured past that holds up to…
Alafair Burke
Three women who met as teenagers and have a bad summer in their shared past take a weekend in the Hamptons to patch things up. A car cuts them off, they’re annoyed, and one of them leaves a note on…
Kaliane Bradley
A near-future British government has time travel and no idea what to do with it, so it pulls a handful of people out of history moments before they would have died and assigns each one a “bridge” — a civil…
William Boyd
Gabriel Dax writes travel books and doesn’t sleep. A fire took his mother and the family house when he was six, and he’s been dreaming it every night since. In August 1960, he’s in Léopoldville and lands an interview with…
