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Pacific Circuit
Alexis Madrigal, 2025
"A dazzlingly imaginative (and surprisingly hopeful) telling of how everything—our cities, our globalized economy, our planet—ended up this way—and how it all started in Oakland. The Pacific Circuit is a marvel of real-life storytelling, making the world around...”
Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Stay True

Saving Five
, 2025
Amanda’s story—innovatively told by versions of herself at different ages—underscores the lasting power of speaking your truth, building a movement, and never losing sight of your dreams.
Melinda Gates

Brother Brontë
Fernando A. Flores, 2025
"[Flores'] prose is evocative, electric, and wildly original . . . This is a wild ride of a novel, and a fascinating look at a future that, sadly, seems frighteningly plausible. A stunning tale of survival and a biting critique of book bans and late...”
—Kirkus (starred review)

savings time
Roya Marsh, 2025
"In savings time, Roya Marsh sharpens her words like a razor, cutting through the layers of identity, trauma, and defiance with a voice that is as relentless as it is tender. These poems are not just read but felt, each one a visceral reminder of the ongoing...”
—Frederick Joseph, National Bestselling Author of We Alive, Beloved

The Wickedest
Caleb Femi, 2025
Kit Fan, The Guardian

Absolution
, 2024

Model Home
Rivers Solomon, 2024

Nuestra Almas Migrantes
, 2024
[Tobar] expone décadas de pensamientos. . . desde un enfoque tan ambicioso como íntimo.
―Luis Pablo Beauregard, El País

Moonbound
Robin Sloan, 2024

Tell Me Who You Are
Louisa Luna, 2024
“This fantastic novel is like going out drinking with your sharpest, sexiest, most dangerous friend, and getting into trouble that's both unexpected and inevitable.”
—Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon

In Tongues
Thomas Grattan, 2024
"Thomas Grattan is a master of plot—that rare ability—which makes In Tongues a real roller coaster: funny, sad, shocking, and, finally, quite moving."
—Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance and The Kingdom of Sand

Another Word for Love
Carvell Wallace, 2024
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Rough Trade
, 2024
“Rough Trade is the kind of high-octane queer adventure that the historical record can point us to in scraps of diaries and newspaper accounts of ‘female bandits,’ but rarely do we get to luxuriate inside the lives of these bad-ass queer ancestors in such glorious...”
—Hugh Ryan, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer

Bones Worth Breaking
David Martinez, 2024
"Bones Worth Breaking is a wise, vulnerable and moving elegy for a best friend and soulmate who just happens to be family. It is also a kaleidoscopic coming-of-age memoir whose power lies in its gentle refusal of identity essentialism and narrative authority,...”
Chantal V. Johnson, author of Post-Traumatic

Little Underworld
, 2024
"Little Underworld is big, nasty, sharp, and wonderfully dark, packed with 1930s noir and witty dialogue. This book grabs you by those wide lapels and refuses to let go.”
—Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Homes

Feeding Ghosts
Tessa Hulls, 2024
"Feeding Ghosts reminds us how much the personal is political . . . an audacious, awe-inspiring feat. For me, it was an essential read."
—Ling Ma, author of Bliss Montage

Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley, 2024
"Potent and propulsive, a lyrical meditation on loss and what comes after. Grief Is for People is heartbreaking and wholly original."
Tara Westover, author of Educated

Ten Bridges I've Burnt
Brontez Purnell, 2024
"Lines leap out of themselves like light eruptions from the funniest angel you ever saw. I could listen to this poet for hours, drive for days on a single thought."
—Eileen Myles, author of A "Working Life"

Dead in Long Beach, California
Venita Blackburn, 2024
"You can try bracing yourself for the ride this story takes you on, but it's best to just surrender. Your wig is going to fall off no matter what you do."
—Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives

Wrong Way
Joanne McNeil, 2023
—Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
, 2023
“There’s a lot to enjoy in [Thank You] . . . Accessible and charming . . . [Sly speaks] from the heart (with a certain cool reserve) while providing a time trip filled with melancholy, wit, and soul.”
Ellen Fagan, CultureSonar

Menewood
Nicola Griffith, 2023
Maria Dahvana Headley, author of The Mere Wife and Beowulf: A New Translation

The Wonder State
Sara Flannery Murphy, 2023
Megan Collins, author of The Family Plot

Open Throat
Henry Hoke, 2023
"Open Throat is a blinding spotlight beam of a book that I was completely unable and unwilling to put down. I am not convinced Henry Hoke isn’t a mountain lion."
Catherine Lacey, author of Pew

Sing Her Down
, 2023
"A thoroughly entertaining, mean-as-a-snake modern Western, Sing Her Down hits like a shotgun blast."
—Dennis Lehane, author of Small Mercies

NFTs Are a Scam
Bobby Hundreds, 2023

Our Migrant Souls
Héctor Tobar, 2023
“The master writer puts on his maestro cap to give us memoir, media criticism, meditation, travelogue, history lesson, and so much more, in a style and pacing with all the brilliant nuances and hues that Latinos exemplify.”
—Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican

You Know Her
Meagan Jennett, 2023
"This book will be the talk of the genre. If you read one thriller this year, read this one."
—Chelsea Cain, author of Heartsick

The Insatiable Volt Sisters
Rachel Eve Moulton, 2023
"Weird and exhilarating and funny and sad and disturbing and scary and poignant and righteous."
—Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club

A Country You Can Leave
Asale Angel-Ajani, 2023
"From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife and resilience. Asale Angel-Ajani is an explosive talent."
—Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming

Empty Theatre: A Novel
Jac Jemc, 2023
—Kirkus (starred review)

The World and All That It Holds
Aleksandar Hemon, 2023
"Hemonites rejoice! The master is back and he has forged a remarkable tale of love and war alongside his own 20th Century Silk Road. From Sarajevo to Shanghai, every sentence, every paragraph is a sensuous and often hilarious delight. Not a Hemonite yet? I envy you...”
—GARY SHTEYNGART, author of Our Country Friends

Close to the Machine
, 2022

Lost to the World
Shahbaz Taseer, 2022

Toad
Katherine Dunn; Foreword by Molly Crabapple, 2022
“If Geek Love was a misfit anthem, Toad is a misfit ballad . . . chaotic, intimate and unruly.”
―Molly Young, The New York Times

The Hollow Kind
Andy Davidson, 2022
—S. A. Cosby, bestselling author of Razorblade Tears

The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler, 2022
"I loved this novel’s brain and heart, its hidden traps, sheer propulsion, ingenious world-building and the purity of its commitment to luminous ideas."
―David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas

If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery, 2022
Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

Democracy's Data
Dan Bouk, 2022
Steven Johnson, author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life

Terraform
Edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans, 2022
“It will radicalize you.”
―Cory Doctorow, from the introduction

The Suitcase Clone
Robin Sloan, 2022

40
Alan Heathcock, 2022
“Shaped from foreboding, almost neobiblical prose, 40 is a fast-paced vision of a shattered American future: a place of violent factions, barbaric pageantry, remote-control rain, and angels made real. Alan Heathcock has created a speculative thriller that glitters...”
—Anthony Doerr

The Pink Hotel
Liska Jacobs, 2022
"I tore through this one like a California wildfire―an appropriate comparison, given the novel’s setting in a high-end hotel beset by fires all around. As the hotel descends into a Roman-style bacchanalia, protestors fill the streets, smoke fills the skies, and...”
Molly Odintz, CrimeReads

Everything I Need I Get from You
Kaitlyn Tiffany, 2022
"Everything I Need I Get from You will fascinate aficionados, but even for someone who’s never so much as logged on, it makes a rich and heartfelt explainer on the feelings and phenomena that thrive on the internet."
Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing

Cult Classic
Sloane Crosley, 2022
“The witty, improbably propulsive rom-com you didn't know you were waiting for - and just the sparkling, slightly sinister love letter to New York City that New York City deserves. An effervescent delight.”
—Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or

Nevada
Imogen Binnie; With a new afterword by the author, 2022
Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

Two Nights in Lisbon
Chris Pavone, 2022
"There’s no such thing as a book you can’t put down, but this one was close."
Stephen King

Ma and Me
Putsata Reang, 2022
"Familial ties and the scars of war are exquisitely examined in this luminous debut . . . A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Valleyesque
Fernando A. Flores, 2022
"These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A. Flores’s deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives."
Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

The Doloriad
Missouri Williams, 2022
Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of It and False Bingo

Dilla Time
Dan Charnas, 2022
“The greatest hip-hop producer of all time is getting the love and care his legacy deserves. Dilla Time is a master class.”
―dream hampton

String Follow
, 2022
"A work of evil genius that put me in a literal trance and didn't relinquish me until the final page. I loved every insidious second.”
—Mona Awad, author of Bunny

Manywhere
Morgan Thomas, 2022
Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of With Teeth

Devil House
John Darnielle, 2022
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Red Milk
Sjón; Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb, 2022

The Death of My Father the Pope
Obed Silva, 2021
"A searing and unforgettable work of art. The Death of My Father the Pope is a landmark in the history of Latinx literature in the United States. This is the book we’ve been waiting for."
Héctor Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark

LaserWriter II
Tamara Shopsin, 2021
"At turns wistful and playful, a novel of appreciation for computers' dust and guts. Like its heroine, LaserWriter II is charming, inventive, and weirdly magnetic."
―ANNA WIENER, author of Uncanny Valley

This Thing Between Us
Gus Moreno, 2021
“As original as it is affecting. It is a meditation on grief and on what it means to belong, and there were scenes that left me genuinely creeped out, unsettled, and shaken. An existentially frightening book.”
—Paul Tremblay, author of Survivor Song

How to Wrestle a Girl
Venita Blackburn, 2021
"How to Wrestle a Girl is a work of stunning grace and rhythm. In these stories Venita Blackburn reminds us she is a writer unlike any other, her stories propelled by voice and wit and harsh beauty."
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black

The Barbarian Nurseries (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
, 2021
“A book of extraordinary scope and extraordinary power.”
Los Angeles Times

Breathing Fire
Jaime Lowe, 2021
"A book as humane, generous and brave as its heroines, Breathing Fire is the journalism we need now, an urgent story from our carceral front lines given to us by a writer brilliantly alert to vulnerability and strength."
JEFF SHARLET, New York Times bestselling author of The Family

Until Proven Safe
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, 2021
“An engrossing study of the ways in which quarantines have changed social, emotional, and political life over hundreds of years, and a fascinating exploration of the perennial roles of fear, conspiracy theories, greed, and prejudice... Perfect for our time.”
ELLEN ULLMAN, author of Close to the Machine and, most recently, Life in Code

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
Jessica Hopper; Foreword by Samantha Irby, 2021
[The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic] is by turns loose and warm and finicky and outraged, and its best pieces are more observant than 94 percent of the first novels that have come my way this year.
Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Everything Now
Rosecrans Baldwin, 2021
"With a novelist's eye and a searching curiosity, Rosecrans Baldwin has created a sprawling work that explores a place and its people, as well as culture, history, geography and ecology. A feat of imagination that fed my mind, heart and soul."
CHARLES YU, winner of the National Book Award for Interior Chinatown

Girl One
Sara Flannery Murphy, 2021
"If The Handmaid’s Tale and the Marvel Cinematic Universe had a baby, the result would probably look something like this feminist sci-fi thriller."
—Keely Weiss, Harper's Bazaar

Sorrowland
Rivers Solomon, 2021
“A tremendous, riveting work, sinking long, deep roots into the nightmare soil of American history in order to grow and feed something new.”
Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review

Living in Data
Jer Thorp, 2021
"If Annie Dillard wrote about data, it might sound something like this. In turns insightful, hilarious, techy and humane, Living in Data is an essential book for anyone who’s wondering how exactly we got into this data mess, and thinking about how we might dig...”
Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack

Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer, 2021
Emily St. John Mandel

Second Nature
Nathaniel Rich, 2021
"Nathaniel Rich’s electric Second Nature . . . is a tour de force examining the influence humans exert on the world . . . The reading experience is by turns demoralizing and galvanizing, like most worthwhile things."
Vanity Fair

The Book of Darryl
The Goggles, 2021

Model Citizen
Joshua Mohr, 2021
"Model Citizen wrecked me and then, somehow, put me back together. San Francisco was lucky to have a chronicler this generous.”
Anita Felicelli, San Francisco Chronicle

The Recent East
Thomas Grattan, 2021
"A wonderful, immersive debut novel . . . in [Thomas] Grattan’s hands, life’s joys are magnetic."
Patrick Nathan, The New York Times Book Review

Vibrate Higher
Talib Kweli, 2021
"Talib Kweli is a hip hop mirror ball, distributing light everywhere. For years, he's seen things, heard things—worldwide. It bodes the reader well to journey his mind and experiences in this book"
Chuck D

100 Boyfriends
Brontez Purnell, 2021
Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a symphony of sex, trouble and wisdom—as if the composer had sex with each member of the orchestra by way of getting it right. An electric prismatic genre-defying punk literary flight, Purnell is twirling here— I loved every page....”
Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Pickard County Atlas
Chris Harding Thornton, 2021
"Thornton has skillfully created a hyper-detailed setting of the Nebraska plains, a landscape of empty farmhouses lined with the windbreak, described right down to the native plants . . . A gripping mixture of cop procedural and a psychological story of...”
Sheila McClear, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

The System
Ryan Gattis, 2020
“Gripping, meticulously researched, and smartly plotted, I devoured this brilliant novel over the course of a weekend.”
―Paula Hawkins, author of Into the Water

Desert Oracle
Ken Layne, 2020
“If you’re a fan of UFOs and insane heat, this is your book.”
- Kirkus Reviews, Booklist

Ambergris
Jeff VanderMeer, 2020
China Mieville on City of Saints and Madmen

Prefecture D
Hideo Yokoyama; Translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, 2020

The Nightworkers
, 2020
"Absolutely brilliant . . . Each character is complex and beautifully drawn, and the ending was genuinely surprising. There’s art, theft, tight family bonds, and intricate plotting—it’s really got everything."
—Molly Odintz, CrimeReads

The Last Great Road Bum
Héctor Tobar, 2020
Publishers Weekly

Beowulf
Maria Dahvana Headley, 2020
"Of the four translations I’ve read, Headley’s is the most readable and engaging. She combines a modern poetry style with some of the hallmarks of Old English poetry, and the words practically sing off the page . . . Headley’s translation shows why it’s vital to...”
—Margaret Kingsbury, Buzzfeed

Imperfect Women
, 2020
"A stunning, dark novel about who women want to be and the reality of who they are.”
—Samantha Downing, author of His Lovely Wife

Ghost Hardware
Tim Maughan, 2020

Take Me Apart
Sara Sligar, 2020
Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty

The Dominant Animal
Kathryn Scanlan, 2020
Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times

dayliGht
Roya Marsh, 2020
“dayliGht has a singular, potent, and persistent swagger—like if KRS-One had written Stone Butch Blues. In this tear-jerkingly matter-of-fact collection, Roya Marsh doesn’t propose an escape of past traumas but rather, sits in the cut, ponders, and comes back with...”
BRONTEZ PURNELL, author of 100 Boyfriends

Little America
Epic; Foreword by Kumail Nanjiani, 2020

Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn, 2020
Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters

Lurking
Joanne McNeil, 2020
WARREN ELLIS, author of Transmetropolitan

The Boatman's Daughter
Andy Davidson, 2020
Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts

Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener, 2020
Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer, 2019
CHELSEA LEU, The New York Times Book Review

User Friendly
Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant, 2019
ROB WALKER, author of The Art of Noticing

Dictionary of the Undoing
John Freeman; Afterword by Valeria Luiselli, 2019
Valeria Luiselli

The Worst Kind of Want
Liska Jacobs, 2019
Janet Fitch, author of Chimes of a Lost Cathedral

False Bingo
Jac Jemc, 2019
"[A] wide-ranging, zany collection that somehow combines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood. Love the book or not, there’s no denying that Jemc has a gift for...”
Siobhan Jones, The New York Times Book Review

High School
Sara Quin and Tegan Quin, 2019
Erin Kodicek, Amazon Book Review

Tinfoil Butterfly
Rachel Eve Moulton, 2019
Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty

This Is Not a T-Shirt
Bobby Hundreds, 2019
Ronnie Fieg, founder of KITH

My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You
Aleksandar Hemon, 2019
Kirkus Reviews

Aug 9-Fog
Kathryn Scanlan, 2019

Tears of the Trufflepig
Fernando A. Flores, 2019
Francisco Goldman, author of The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle

Losing Earth
Nathaniel Rich, 2019
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Infinite Detail
Tim Maughan, 2019
Warren Ellis, author of Normal

In Our Mad and Furious City
Guy Gunaratne, 2018
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

Seventeen
Hideo Yokoyama; Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai, 2018
Publishers Weekly

The Best Bad Things
Katrina Carrasco, 2018
Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham

The Mamba Mentality
Kobe Bryant, 2018
Los Angeles Times

The Bus on Thursday
Shirley Barrett, 2018
Jennifer McMahon, author of The Winter People

CoDex 1962
Sjón; Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb, 2018
Booklist

The Golden State
Lydia Kiesling, 2018
Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia!

Nothing Good Can Come from This
Kristi Coulter, 2018
“Perfectly observant down to the smallest details, this account of drinking, sobriety, and starting (and then restarting) a manageable life is one of those books that is deeply serious, witty, and wonderfully compelling. Nothing Good Can Come from This seems to...”
Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love

The Mere Wife
Maria Dahvana Headley, 2018
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

So Lucky
Nicola Griffith, 2018
"Nicola Griffith is a brilliant creator of fierce female protagonists. With So Lucky, she fires a gritty, scary, wrathful, sometimes blisteringly funny broadside at the monsters of ableist culture."
Maria Dahvana Headley, author of The Mere Wife

Our Kind of Cruelty
Araminta Hall, 2018
Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

Acid West
Joshua Wheeler, 2018
"It’s been a long wait for Joshua Wheeler’s first book, but it would have been worth the wait even if we’d had to wait twice as long. Full of fine lines mined by a still-young writer, Acid West is worth its weight in gold."
Geoff Dyer

Look Alive Out There
Sloane Crosley, 2018
David Sedaris

Graffiti Palace
A. G. Lombardo, 2018
"This is a book that’s as crazy and unpredictable as an urban uprising; it’s a phantasmagoric journey, written in precise and haunting prose, through a wounded and defiant city called Los Angeles."
Héctor Tobar, author of Barbarian Nurseries and Deep Down Dark

Whiskey
Bruce Holbert, 2018
"In the masterful and rueful Whiskey, the sentences and dialogue burn like 100 proof shots of the novel’s namesake: smoky, sharp, and chased with black humor."
Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant

The Strange Bird
Jeff VanderMeer, 2018
“VanderMeer’s apocalyptic vision, with its mix of absurdity, horror, and grace, can’t be mistaken for that of anyone else."
Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle

Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer, 2018
Matt Bell, author of A Tree Or a Person Or a Wall

King Zeno
Nathaniel Rich, 2018
Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books

Ultraluminous
Katherine Faw, 2017
"A sort of American Psycho from the prostitute’s point of view, a damning, often hilarious account of toxic masculinity and Wall Street money culture."
Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker

Catalina
Liska Jacobs, 2017
Kirkus

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry, 2017
Rachel Cooke, The Guardian

Kung Fu High School
Ryan Gattis, 2017
Publishers Weekly

Sourdough
Robin Sloan, 2017
“A wild, geeky, flour-dusted ride through the oddball food and techie communities of San Francisco . . . A winning story that—like its namesake bread—carries a satisfying tang.”
Shelf Awareness

Life in Code
Ellen Ullman, 2017
Life in Code is a consummate insider's take, rich with local color and anecdotes . . . Ullman has a pure passion for computing that doesn't stop her from recognizing all the ways it can isolate and intimidate . . . Like all great writers, she finds the universal in...”
Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

Safe
Ryan Gattis, 2017
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

Arbitrary Stupid Goal
Tamara Shopsin, 2017
Miranda July

The City Always Wins
Omar Robert Hamilton, 2017
Molly Crabapple

The Last Kid Left
Rosecrans Baldwin, 2017
Karen Ann Cullotta, BookPage
