Tag Archives: Coming of Age

Magician

by Tracy Lynne Oliver

“A breathtaking novel that reads like an epic poem of trauma and survival, Magician is a dark modern myth about power, inheritance, and the dangerous line…

John of John

by Douglas Stuart

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, LOS ANGELES TIMES, TIME, OPRAH DAILY, AND VOGUE “So immersive, so all-encompassing, that I felt…

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

by Rabih Alameddine

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.”—NPR From National Book Award finalist and winner of…

Heart the Lover

by Lily King

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD “Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her…

Blue Light Hours

by Bruna Dantas Lobato

“Astonishingly beautiful . . . It’s a revelation.”—Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut…

Brother Alive

by Zain Khalid

From the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam…

Ocean State

by Stewart O'Nan

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do

Young Mungo

by Douglas Stuart

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain…

Love in the Big City

by Sang Young Park

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul…

Earthlings

by Sayaka Murata

From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a young girl who believes she is an alien