Grow up and find yourself in these unforgettable coming-of-age reads!
SAOIRSE by Charleen Hurtubise
9781250400642 | 2/24/26
For readers of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, SAOIRSE is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries to survive.
In Michigan, Sarah’s childhood was defined by fear and silence. As a teenager, she saw a chance to escape and took it. Now, in 1999, she is an artist living on the rugged coast of Donegal, Ireland, where she is known as Saoirse (pronounced Sear-sha)—a name that sounds like the sea and means freedom in the language of her adopted country. And free is precisely how she is finally beginning to feel. Her partner and two beloved daughters are regular subjects of her paintings, and together they have made the safe home she always longed for. But Saoirse’s secrets haunt her. No one must learn of the identity she has stolen in order to survive; they cannot know of the dangers that she crossed an ocean to escape.
When her artwork wins unexpected acclaim at a Dublin exhibition, the spotlight of fame threatens to unravel the careful lies that hold her world together. Journalists and admirers begin to ask questions about the mysterious artist from Donegal, and she fears the unwanted publicity will expose all that she has done.
SUPERFAN by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
9781250369666 | 2/3/26
Freshman Minnie is adrift at college in Austin, Texas, when she discovers a boy band called HOURglass and the online forums that worship them. She especially loves Halo, whose sharp edges feel somehow familiar. After a brief romance goes painfully awry, Minnie pours everything into her new fandom, clinging to each livestream and bonding with other fans online. But when a scandal threatens to expose Halo to harm, Minnie decides that she is the only one who can save him.
Except Halo’s secret is darker than anything the tabloids could imagine. Before he was a superstar heartthrob, he was Eason: a high school dropout haunted by a tragic accident. When he is recruited for HOURglass, it feels like a chance to become someone else. And when he is onstage in front of his fans, he can almost forget the horrors of his past–until one of those very fans threatens to destroy everything.
Dazzling, entrancing, and deeply heartfelt, SUPERFAN is about fandom in all its magic and its terror, and the extreme lengths to which we go to rid ourselves of loneliness.
A GOOD ANIMAL by Sara Maurer
9781250383563 | 2/24/26
In the farm country outside Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan—a border town where life moves slow and dreams run fast—most kids want out. Not Everett Lindt. He’s set on staying put, rebuilding his family’s sheep farm, and carving a future from the land he loves. Then he meets Mary, a new girl in town with restless energy and bigger plans. When she discovers she’s pregnant, Everett sees a life together; Mary, however, is desperate to find a way out. Together, they make an impulsive choice—one that could change everything.
Tense, lyrical, and deeply felt, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut breathtakingly captures the ache of first love, the beauty and brutality of rural life, and how one decision can echo through generations and shape who we become.
CELESTIAL LIGHTS by Cecile Pin
9781250863492 | 4/14/26
January 28, 1986: soon after launch the Challenger shuttle falls out of the sky and into the sea. At the same time, Oliver Ines, the most renowned astronaut of his time, is born. CELESTIAL LIGHTS is his story.
His idyllic, if lonely, childhood is spent in a small English village, where he falls in love with Philly, his neighbour’s niece. During his college years in London and a stint in the Navy, his fascination with the celestial sharpens into a focus often mistaken for aloofness. When the enterprising and elusive billionaire Mark Massey taps him to train as an astronaut and lead a mission to Europa, Oliver must make a choice that will send his whole world spinning.
He is accompanied on his journey by only three crew members who must learn to depend on each other. Unreachable by anyone on Earth, Oliver details the voyage in a private log, mourning the life he has left behind, and dreaming of a future that only he can bring about.
CELESTIAL LIGHTS is a portrait of a complicated man whose unparalleled understanding of the universe doesn’t always translate into stellar relationships on Earth. It explores the sacrifices required to achieve greatness—but more importantly, the idea that greatness is not always what it seems. A breathtaking tale of memory, personal choices, and the relationships that define us, CELESTIAL LIGHTS will make every reader marvel at the night sky while cherishing the connections that make our planet home.
BAD ASIANS by Lillian Li
9781250363626 | 2/17/26
Diana, Justin, Errol, and Vivian have been told their entire lives that success is guaranteed by following a simple checklist. They worked hard, got A’s, and attended a good university—only to graduate into the Great Recession of 2008. Despite their newly minted degrees, they’re unemployed, stuck again under their parents’ roofs in a hypercompetitive Chinese American community. So when Grace—once the neighborhood golden child, now a Harvard Law School dropout—asks to make a documentary about the crew, they say yes. It’s not like her little movie will ever see the light of day.
But then the video, “Bad Asians,” goes viral on an up-and-coming media platform (YouTube, anyone?). Suddenly, millions of people know them as cruel caricatures, each full of pent-up frustrations with the others. And after a desperate attempt at spin control goes off the rails, they are flung even further off course from the lives they’d always imagined. As the video’s popularity tears them apart, the friends must face harsh truths about themselves and coming of age in the new millennium.
Lillian Li’s novel wryly captures a generation shaped by the rise of the internet and the end of the American dream. An epic tale of friendship and coming of age, BAD ASIANS asks, Can the same people who made you who you are end up keeping you from who you’re meant to be?
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