
author on Tour
view datesJune 2023
And Then He Sang a Lullaby
by Ani Kayode SomtochukwuThe inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a searingly honest and resonant debut from a 23-year-old Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist, exploring what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia

author on Tour
view datesJune 2023
Graveyard of the Pacific
by Randall SullivanA vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world

June 2023
Brother Alive
by Zain KhalidFrom a New York Times Writer to Watch, 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 father

author on Tour
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Code of the Hills
by Chris OffuttIn this blistering return to Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series, Mick Hardin is tested like never before as familial allegiances and old wounds collide, threatening to destroy everything he loves

June 2023
Shifty’s Boys
by Chris OffuttArmy-CID-officer-cum-unofficial-PI Mick Hardin is up against unforeseen forces who will stop at nothing in this vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed novelist Chris Offutt

author on Tour
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I
by Tracy BormanAnne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth

June 2023
Slenderman
by Kathleen HaleThe first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet

June 2023
The Men
by Sandra NewmanFrom the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mind-bending novel in which all people with a Y chromosome mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth

June 2023
Lost on Me
by Veronica RaimoIn this irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman, award-winning and bestselling Italian author Veronica Raimo transforms neurosis, sex and family disaster into brilliant comedy reminiscent of Fleabag and Natalia Ginzburg’s Family Lexicon

July 2023
The Murder Book
by Mark BillinghamThe latest thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham finds Tom Thorne settling into a newly content existence, but a spate of brutal murders sets him off on an investigation that may just shatter every happiness he has built

July 2023
The Last Dance
by Mark BillinghamThe first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who’s unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated

July 2023
Flags on the Bayou
by James Lee BurkeFrom New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters – enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers – are caught in the maelstrom

July 2023
Small Worlds
by Caleb Azumah NelsonAn exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Costa First Novel Award winning author Caleb Azumah Nelson

July 2023
The Anniversary
by Stephanie BishopFor fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascendant writer, the unresolved death of her husband, and what it takes to emerge on her own

August 2023
Lush Lives
by J. Vanessa LyonWith beguiling wit and undeniable passion, Lush Lives is a deliciously queer and sexy novel about bold, brilliant women unafraid to take risks and fight for what they love

August 2023
To Catch a Storm
by Mindy MejiaIn this brand new series from national bestseller Mindy Mejia, a physicist and a psychic reluctantly team up to solve two missing persons cases during an ice storm in Iowa

August 2023
Prophet
by Sin Blaché and Helen MacdonaldFrom the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance—set in a universe just one perilous step from our own

August 2023
Yesterday’s Spy
by Tom BradbyFrom British journalist and bestselling author, Tom Bradby, Yesterday’s Spy is a brilliantly plotted historical espionage novel about a father searching for his disappeared son against the backdrop of the 1953 coup in Tehran

August 2023
Cat Brushing
by Jane CampbellA rousing and original debut story collection that probes the erotic, emotional, and intellectual lives of elder women, Cat Brushing will be published in the author’s 80th year

August 2023
Chinese Prodigal
by David ShihFrom an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country

August 2023
Doctor Sax
by Jack Kerouac“Kerouac dreams of America in the authentic rolling rhythms of a Whitman or a Thomas Wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life.” –John K. Hutchens

August 2023
Queen of the Court
by Madeleine BlaisFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais, the dramatic and colorful story of legendary tennis star and international celebrity, Alice Marble

August 2023
The Hole We’re In
by Gabrielle Zevin“Zevin mixes sharp humor with moments of grace as she gives readers terrific insights into the problems of adult children removing themselves from the influence of parents, and establishes herself as an astute chronicler of the way we spend now. . . . The Corrections for our recessionary times.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

August 2023
The Hundred Waters
by Lauren AcamporaCelebrated by the Boston Globe as “a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs,” the deliciously weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the secret lives of the polished Connecticut haven that got us all hooked on NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, and jolts us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide

September 2023
Son of the Old West
by Nathan WardAn epic narrative of the Old West through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo

September 2023
Radical
by Xiaolu GuoFrom NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a provocative memoir and an intercultural feminist lexicon of a sojourn in New York that upended her sense of self as a woman, partner, mother, and artist

September 2023
Wandering Through Life
by Donna LeonThe internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties

October 2023
Touched
by Walter MosleyIntergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and nearly completely evil converge in an alternative fiction novel that could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of the country’s most beloved and acclaimed writers

October 2023
Freeman’s: Conclusions
by John FreemanFeaturing new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Rachel Khong, Louise Erdrich, and more, the tenth and final installment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman’s, which explores all the ways of coming to an end

October 2023
Satori in Paris
by Jack KerouacOne of Jack Kerouac’s last novels showcases the remarkable range and versatility of his mature talent

October 2023
Night Side of the River
by Jeanette WintersonA captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” (New York Times), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky