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.
A TRUE ACCOUNT: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself by Katherine Howe
9781250894212
Trade paperback available 11/19/24
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman’s unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.
ABSOLUTION by Alice McDermott
9781250337993
Trade paperback available 10/29/24
A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world.
THE BEE STING by Paul Murray
9781250338259
Trade paperback available 9/3/24
Paul Murray’s exuberantly entertaining new novel is a tour de force: a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.
JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS by Adèle Rosenfeld
9781644452967
Trade paperback available now
A deeply moving debut novel about the flaws of language, the fear of silence, and the power of imagination.
RETURN TO VALETTO by Dominic Smith
9781250335777
Trade paperback available now
A riveting journey into one family’s dark past, a page-turning excavation of the ruins of history, and a testament to the possibility of love and understanding across gaps of all kinds—even time.
SHY by Max Porter
9781644452899
Trade paperback available now
SHY is a music-besotted literary performance that has had critics in awe of Porter’s “bravura, extended-mix of a novel that skitters, pulses, fractures and coalesces again with all the exhilaration and doom of broken beats and heavy bass lines.” (Hermione Hoby, The New York Times Book Review).
OPEN THROAT by Henry Hoke
9781250335807
Trade paperback available now
A marvel of storytelling, a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing world told by a lovable mountain lion. Both feral and vulnerable, profound and playful, OPEN THROAT is a star-making novel that brings mythmaking to real life.
GONE TO THE WOLVES by John Wray
9781250335692
Trade paperback available now
In his most daring novel yet, John Wray dives deep into the wild, funhouse world of metal true believers and the doomsday cults that flourished at the end of the twentieth century. Gone to the Wolves lays bare the intensity, the tumult, and the rapture of friendship in late adolescence—a time when music can often feel like life or death.
BEYOND THAT, THE SEA by Laura Spence-Ash
9781250854391
Trade paperback available now
A sweeping, tenderhearted love story that tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own.
THE END OF DRUM-TIME by Hanna Pylväinen
9781250871817
Trade paperback available now
Gorgeously written and sweeping in scope, The End of Drum-Time immerses readers in a world lit by the northern lights, steeped in age-old rituals, and guided by passions that transcend place and time.
KANTIKA by Elizabeth Graver
9781250869838
Trade paperback available now
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.
BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton
9781250321718
Trade paperback available now
From the Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton, a “terrific” (Stephen King) thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight.
THE SUN WALKS DOWN by Fiona McFarlane
9781250321756
Trade paperback available now
The many-voiced, many-sided story of a boy lost in colonial Australia with “beautiful prose and polyphonic voices, . . . epic scope and rare intimacy” (Malcolm Forbes, The Washington Post).
DECENT PEOPLE by De’Shawn Charles Winslow
9781639733040
Trade paperback available now
Propulsive and thought-provoking, Decent People is a brilliant novel about shame, race, money, homophobia, and the reckoning required to heal a fractured community.
PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG HERE by Josh Riedel
9781250861580
Trade paperback available now
Adventurous and hypertimely, Please Report Your Bug Here is an inventive millennial coming-of-age story, a dark exploration of the corruption now synonymous with Big Tech, and, above all, a testament to the power of human connection in our digital era.
ROSES, IN THE MOUTH OF A LION by Bushra Rehman
9781250834805
Trade paperback available now
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 now
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 now
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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