If you run a One City One Book program and are looking for literary fiction recommendations, we’ve got you covered!
For even more recommendations of all genres, check out this post and this Edelweiss catalog.
ROSES, IN THE MOUTH OF A LION by Bushra Rehman
9781250834805
Trade paperback available 12/5/23
In the vein of ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community.
HESTER by Laurie Lico Albanese
9781250825162
Trade paperback available 10/3/23
A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England’s witchcraft trials.
IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan Escoffery
9781250872210
Trade paperback available 9/5/23
A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.
SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME by Nicole Flattery
9781639730735
Trade paperback available now
SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity’s girlfriend, the widower’s second wife, the lecherous professor’s student, the corporate employee. But these women are too intelligent, too ferociously mordant and painfully funny to remain in their places.
OTHER NAMES FOR LOVE by Taymour Soomro
9781250872883
Trade paperback available now
A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy’s life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire.
WHO YOU MIGHT BE by Leigh N. Gallagher
9781250871473
Trade paperback available now
A fiercely original and propulsive debut novel about the unexpected turns in life that ultimately determine who we become.
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield
9781250229908
Trade paperback available now
From Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year finalist Julia Armfield, a haunting, utterly original debut novel about a couple dealing with the aftermath of a disastrous deep-sea mission.
GIRLS THEY WRITE SONGS ABOUT by Carlene Bauer
9781250872838
Trade paperback available now
A power ballad to female friendship, GIRLS THEY WRITE SONGS ABOUT is a thrumming, searching novel about the bonds that shape us more than any love affair.
THE LAST KARANKAWAS by Kimberly Garza
9781250871527
Trade paperback available now
A blazing and kaleidoscopic debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino American families on the Texas coast from a voice you won’t soon forget.
YERBA BUENA by Nina LaCour
9781250810519
Trade paperback available now
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other, perfect for fans of WRITERS AND LOVERS.
SHY by Max Porter
9781644452295
Novella available now
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone.
NOTES ON YOUR SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE by Alison Espach
9781250871442
Trade paperback available now
Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy.
A TINY UPWARD SHOVE by Melissa Chadburn
9781250863157
Trade paperback available now
The heartbreaking journeys of two of society’s castoffs as they make their way to each other and their roles as criminal and victim.
FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
9781250811806
Trade paperback available now
A propulsive and dazzling debut novel, set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West.
BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU by Sally Rooney
9781250859044
Trade paperback available now
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller from Sally Rooney, about a group of young people who are doing their best to connect with each other in beautiful and meaningful ways.
THE HOUSE OF RUST by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
9781644450680
Trade paperback available now
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father.
MIGRATIONS by Charlotte McConaghy
9781250204035
Trade paperback available now
For readers of STATION ELEVEN and EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, a debut novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world’s last birds—and her own final chance for redemption.
DOMINICANA by Angie Cruz
9781250205940
Trade paperback available now
In the vein of ANOTHER BROOKLYN and AMERICANAH, a novel about a Dominican teenager’s arranged marriage and immigration to New York City, set in the 1960s and inspired by the author’s mother.
TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi
9781250231260
Trade paperback available now
As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Susan Choi’s TRUST EXERCISE will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth and about friendships and loyalties, leaving readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.
THE NIGHT TIGER by Yangsze Choo
9781250175465
Trade paperback available now
From New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo, an utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee.
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