Carmen and Grace

Melissa Coss Aquino

An emotionally riveting coming-of-age drama about two cousins lured into the underground drug trade at a young age and the inextricable ties that bind them, as one woman seeks power and the other seeks a way out—the debut of a vibrant and stunningly original new voice in fiction.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: William Morrow
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The Society of Shame

Jane Roper

In this timely and witty combination of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician’s wife’s “feminine hygiene malfunction” catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that’s both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Anchor
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Life and Other Love Songs

Anissa Gray

A father’s sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls.

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: Berkley
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The Last Animal

Ramona Ausubel

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Riverhead
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The Double Life of Benson Yu

Kevin Chong

This fresh and unique work of metafiction follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Atria Books
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The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

Stephen Buoro

Crackling with energy and intelligence, this debut is the “smart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking” (Kamila Shamsie) story of an exceptional teenager coming of age in the shadow of colonialism and communal violence in Nigeria.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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If We’re Being Honest

Cat Shook

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s debut novel If We’re Being Honest is the snappy, smart, heartwarming story of the Williams family, and the sweltering summer that rewrote their history. Clever and completely original, If We’re Being Honest reminds you that while no one can break your heart like your family can, there’s really no one better to put you back together.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Celadon
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Hestia Strikes a Match

Christine Grillo

Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war. In the face of the everyday wildness of our times, it asks and answers that newly constant question: How do we make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us?

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

J. Ryan Stradal

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
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Cloud Girls

Lisa Harding

Thrown together by a harrowing twist of fate, two girls will find hope and redemption in friendship in this award-winning, emotional gut punch of a novel from the author of Bright Burning Things. Heartbreaking and breathtakingly beautiful, Cloud Girls exposes the failings of polite society and the cruelty that exists beneath its surface, yet reminds us that goodness and love can flourish in the darkest times.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: HarperVia
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The House Is on Fire

Rachel Beanland

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night—told from the perspectives of four people whose actions during the inferno changed the course of history.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Homecoming

Kate Morton

The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Mariner Books
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The Cuban Heiress

Chanel Cleeton

In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: Berkley
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The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

Paterson Joseph

It’s finally time for Charles Ignatius Sancho to tell his story, one that begins on a slave ship in the Atlantic and ends at the very center of London life. . . . A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century England and based on a true story.

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
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The Trackers

Charles Frazier

Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. After a wealthy art lover and his wife take Val in, he becomes entranced and entangled in their lives.

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: Ecco
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Fire Rush

Jacqueline Crooks

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Fire Rush is a mesmerizing story of love, loss, and self-discovery that vibrates with the liberating power of music set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Viking
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The Golden Doves

Martha Hall Kelly

Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II—a pulse-pounding novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Ballantine
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Kantika

Elizabeth Graver

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. Exploring identity, place and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body—in work, art and love—serves as a site of both suffering and joy.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Henry Holt/Metropolitan
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Only the Beautiful

Susan Meissner

When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser’s daughter. She moves into the Calvert’s spacious house with a secret, however—Rosie sees colors when she hears sound. She promised her mother she’d never reveal her little-understood ability to anyone, but the weight of her isolation and grief prove too much for her. Driven by her loneliness she not only breaks the vow to her mother, but in a desperate moment lets down her guard and ends up pregnant and banished.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Berkley
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Ghost Girl, Banana

Wiz Wharton

Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: HarperVia
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This Bird Has Flown

Susanna Hoffs

A delightfully funny and steamy debut novel about music, fate, redemption, and love from beloved songwriter and Bangles co-founder Susanna Hoffs that is “part British romcom, part Jane Eyre, and one hundred percent enjoyable” (Tom Perrotta).

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
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Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Random House
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The Plus One

Mazey Eddings

What starts out as a fake wedding date turns into something these childhood enemies never expected in The Plus One, a sparkling romantic comedy by Mazey Eddings.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
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The Half of It

Juliette Fay

One perfect night. Forty years of buried hurt. One chance to make it right. Can the past ever be fixed? With humor, heart, and grace, Juliette Fay delivers a poignant, propulsive novel about settling the past, rekindling lost friendships, and discovering love when you least expect it

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: William Morrow
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Yours Truly

Abby Jimenez

Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother’s running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that’s probably going to the new man-doctor who’s already registering eighty-friggin’-seven on Briana’s “pain in my ass” scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter. And it’s a really good letter.

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: Forever
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Adelaide

Genevieve Wheeler

With unflinching honesty and heart, this relatable debut from a fresh new voice explores grief and mental health while capturing the timeless nature of what it’s like to be young and in love―with your friends, with your city, and with a person who cannot, will not, love you back.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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Twelve Hours in Manhattan

Maan Gabriel

Bianca Maria Curtis is at the brink of losing it all when she meets Eric at a bar in Manhattan. Eric, as it turns out, is the famous Korean drama celebrity Park Hyun Min, and he’s in town for one night to escape the pressures of fame. Sparks fly as Bianca and Eric spend 12 magical hours far away from their respective lives. But real life is more than just a few exhilarating stolen moments in time.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: She Writes Press
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Bear with Me Now

Katie Shepard

Charity executive Teagan Van Zijl is dragged by his sister to a wilderness therapy retreat in Montana. Lost in the woods, Teagan is nearly eaten by a bear before his rescue by a furious angel in muddy hiking boots: the program’s handywoman, Darcy Albano. After spending the summer with Darcy, Teagan realizes he doesn’t want to return to New York without her.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Berkley
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Happy Place

Emily Henry

A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Berkley
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Moorewood Family Rules

Helenkay Dimon

Knives Out and Ocean’s 8 meets The Nest in this hilariously twisty novel by award-winning author HelenKay Dimon, about a woman who returns home from prison to her dysfunctional con artist family and tries to get them to go legit.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Avon
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Before We Were Innocent

Ella Berman

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel from Ella Berman. Ten years later, another crime, eerily similar to that fateful night in Greece brings the two best friends back together.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Berkley
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House of Cotton

Monica Brashears

A stunning, contemporary Black southern gothic novel about what it means to be a poor woman in the God- fearing south. One night, while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia’s luck around with a lucrative “modeling” job at his family’s funeral home. She accepts. When Cotton’s requests become increasingly weird, Magnolia discovers there’s a lot more at stake than just her rent.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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Natural Beauty

Ling Ling Huang

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. A piercing, darkly funny debut, Natural Beauty explores questions of consumerism, self-worth, race, and identity—and leaves readers with a shocking and unsettling truth.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Dutton
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Ozark Dogs

Eli Cranor

After his son is convicted of capital murder, Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Soho Crime
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The Soulmate

Sally Hepworth

There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn’t.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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The Haunting of Alejandra

V. Castro

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood”.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Del Rey
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Sisters of the Lost Nation

Nick Medina

A young Native girl’s hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe’s reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Berkley
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Symphony of Secrets

Brendan Slocumb

Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time—his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth that a powerful organization wants to keep hidden, Bern will stop at nothing to right history’s wrongs and give Josephine the recognition she deserves.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Anchor
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The Last Word

Taylor Adams

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy—or very, very dangerous—in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and Hairpin Bridge.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: William Morrow
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Small Mercies

Dennis Lehane

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Harper
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Camp Zero

Michelle Min Sterling

In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets. Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother, Rose agrees to travel to Camp Zero and spy on its architect in exchange for housing. She arrives at the same time as another newcomer, a college professor named Grant who is determined to flee his wealthy family’s dark legacy. Gradually, they realize that there is more to the architect than previously thought, and a disturbing mystery lurks beneath the surface of the camp. At the same time, rumors abound of an elite group of women soldiers living and working at a nearby Cold War-era climate research station.

Publication Date: April 4
Publisher: Atria Books
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One for My Enemy

Olivie Blake

From New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intricate web of love, magic, and rival witch families in modern day New York City.

Publication Date: April 4
Publisher: Tor Books
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Some Desperate Glory

Emily Tesh

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.

Publication Date: April 11
Publisher: Tordotcom
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Untethered Sky

Fonda Lee

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs. Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family.

Publication Date: April 11
Publisher: Tordotcom
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The Thick and the Lean

Chana Porter

In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s highly anticipated new novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them. A startling fable of the entwined perils of capitalism, body politics, and the stigmas women face for appetites of every kind, Chana Porter’s profound new novel explores the reclamation of pleasure as a revolutionary act.

Publication Date: April 18
Publisher: Gallery/Saga Press
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Ascension

Nicholas Binge

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human

Publication Date: April 25
Publisher: Riverhead
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The Gifts

Liz Hyder

October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders.

In London, rumors of a “fallen angel” cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger . . .

Publication Date: April 25
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
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In the Lives of Puppets

TJ Klune

In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots―fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. 

Publication Date: April 25
Publisher: Tor Books
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Never Vacation with Your Ex

Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka

The Summer I Turned Pretty meets People We Meet on Vacation in a YA second chance romance where the rules for getting over an ex turn out to be more complicated than they seem.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
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Divine Rivals

Rebecca Ross

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. Shadow and Bone meets Lore in Rebecca Ross’s Divine Rivals, an epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Wednesday Books
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Someone Is Always Watching

Kelley Armstrong

Blythe and her friends — Gabrielle, and brother and sister Tucker and Tanya — have always been a tight friend group, attending a local high school and falling in and out of love with each other. But an act of violence has caused a rift between Blythe and Tucker… and unexpected bursts of aggression and disturbing nightmares have started to become more frequent in their lives. The strange happenings culminate in a shocking event at school: Gabrielle is found covered in blood in front of their deceased principal, with no memory of what happened.  

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Tundra Books
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Pieces of Me

Kate McLaughlin

The next gut-punching, compulsively readable Kate McLaughlin novel, about a girl finding strength in not being alone. Pieces of Me is a chilling, yet empathetic, look into Dissociative Identity Disorder. With her calm, pure, voice, Kate McLaughlin delves deep into the crevices of this misunderstood disorder and a young woman’s mind.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Wednesday Books
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Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny

The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us glittering stories of love—friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts—in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Knopf
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I Am My Country: And Other Stories

Kenan Orhan

A fiercely imaginative debut story collection by “a startling talent who can seemingly do anything” (Anthony Marra) explores the lives of ordinary people in Turkey to reveal how even individual acts of resistance have extraordinary repercussions.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Random House
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Brown Boy: A Memoir

Omer Aziz

In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Scribner
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I Can’t Save You: A Memoir

Anthony Chin-Quee

The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward. By turns harrowing and hilarious, honest and human, I Can’t Save You is the fascinating true story of how looking within can change you and your life for the better.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Riverhead
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A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

From the bestselling author of All You Can Ever Know comes a searing memoir of family, class, and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Ecco
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In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So “Post-Racial” America

Brianna Holt

In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So “Post-Racial” America is a memoir in essays about young Black women and the stereotypes and preconceived notions they are expected to live up to, examined through the lens of Brianna Holt’s lived experience and pop culture to help readers unlearn their biases and expand their worldviews.

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: Dutton/Plume
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

Maggie Smith

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself.

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee

In the vein of Eloquent Rage and Minor Feelings―a passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification. With prose by turns scathing and heart-wrenching, Julia Lee lays bare the complex disorientation and shame that stems from this country’s imposed racial hierarchy to argue that Asian Americans must leverage their liminality for lasting social change alongside Black and brown communities.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
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Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

Hadley Freeman

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan’s rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: Viking
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Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right & Its Historic Consequences

Joan Biskupic

CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, from its seismic shift to the Right to its controversial decisions, including its reversal of Roe v. Wade, based on access to all the key players.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: William Morrow
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There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA’s attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed.

Publication date: April 4
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
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After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller

Max Wallace

In this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability.

Publication date: April 11
Publisher: Grand Central
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, & Murder

David Grann

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

Publication date: April 18
Publisher: Doubleday
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Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

Virginia Sole-Smith

In this illuminating narrative on the daily onslaught of body shame that kids face from peers, school, diet culture, and parents themselves, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith offers a compelling reported look at how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
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Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurrican Katrina

Jared Fishman & Joseph Hooper

The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina–era New Orleans.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Hanover Square
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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion & Homecoming

Ava Chin

A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family’s epic journey to lay down roots in America.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Penguin
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Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
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Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

Mona Gable

A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction.

Publication date: April 25
Publisher: Atria Books
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