Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All & What to Do Instead by Lisa Selin Davis

Synopsis: Lisa Selin Davis, known for her smart, viral, feminist, cultural takes, argues that the “breadwinner vs. homemaker” divide is a myth. She charts examples from prehistoric female hunters to working class housewives in the 1930s, from First Ladies to 21st century stay-at-home moms, on a search for answers to the problems of what is referred to as women’s work and motherhood. Davis discovers that women have been sold a lie about what families should be. Housewife unveils a truth: interdependence, rather than independence, is the American way.  

Publication Date: March 5, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Legacy Lit.

Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

Synopsis: A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker’s rising stars. Meditating on politics and politicians, religion and preachers, fathers and family, Great Expectations is both an emotionally resonant coming-of-age story and a rich novel of ideas, marking the arrival of a major new writer.

Publication Date: March 12, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Hogarth.

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca

Synopsis: A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.

Publication Date: March 12, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Titan Books.

The Morningside by Téa Obreht

Synopsis: From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland, a sweeping novel of mothers and daughters, displacement and belonging, and wondrous tales of a world both fallen and new. Startling, inventive, and profoundly moving, The Morningside is a novel about the stories we tell—and the stories we refuse to tell—to make sense of where we came from and who we hope we might become.

Publication Date: March 19, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Random House.

Like Happiness by Urusla Villarreal-Moura

Synopsis: A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer. Told in a dual narrative alternating between her present day and a letter from Tatum to Domínguez, recounting and reclaiming the totality of their relationship, Like Happiness explores the nuances of a complicated and imbalanced relationship, catalyzing a reckoning with gender, celebrity, memory, Latinx identity, and power dynamics.

Publication Date: March 26, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Celadon Books.

One in the Chamber by Robin Peguero

Synopsis: Heir to a political dynasty, Randy Lancaster pushes Cam to his limits with his penchant for booze, drugs, and meaningless flings. Charlie James, Liz’s linebacker boyfriend, keeps Cam at a distance, eyeing the newcomer with suspicion. All of them have one thing in common. They hate their bosses. As the Gang of Six takes up the rushed nomination of the first Black chief justice to the Supreme Court, Cam and his friends are plotting against them. But in the game of politics, one’s motivations are never as they seem—especially true for Cam, the enigmatic figure at the center of it all.

Publication Date: March 26, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Grand Central Publishing.

Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld

Synopsis: From the bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted, a compelling and poignant story of sibling bonds, monsters masquerading as caretakers, terrifying secrets, and the power of love to right even the most egregious wrongs.

Publication Date: March 26, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Harper.

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball & Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Synopsis: A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America. There’s Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus—whether it’s basketball, or music, or performance—Hanif Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.

Publication Date: March 26, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Random House.

This Skin Was Once Mine And Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca

Synopsis: A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

Publication Date: April 2, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Titan Books.

The Goldilocks Genome by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Synopsis: Grounded in real data analysis techniques, real science and pharmacology, and actual current psychiatric practices, The Goldilocks Genome is simultaneously a taut, race-against-time thriller and a condemnation of the psychiatric industry’s failure to implement genetic-based “personalized medicine”—a problem that persists to this day.

Publication Date: May 21, 2024

I received a gifted copy from the publisher, Sparkpress.

Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink by Tina Horn

Synopsis: From a #1 Apple podcast host, Lambda Literary fellow, and dominatrix comes a sex-positive, judgment-free cultural deep-dive into the world of kink. From spanking, strap-ons, and sluts, to taboos involving cake, chains, and cannibalism, Why Are People Into That? explores the universal drives that shape even the most specific erotic tastes, and the cultural context that molds and is molded by the way we conceptualize pleasure, gender, fantasy, and power. With buoyant prose, Tina invites us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about sexuality. 

Publication Date: June 4, 2024

I received an advanced reader’s copy from the publisher, Hachette Books.

Wedding People by Alison Espach

Synopsis: A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help us start anew. In turns uproariously, absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is a look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined―and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Publication Date: July 30, 2024

I received an advanced reader’s copy from the publisher, Henry Holt & Co.

The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez

Synopsis: Two broken hearts decide that the best way to get over their first loves is with a no-strings-attached relationship in this spicy and charming debut romance.

Publication Date: July 9, 2024

I received an e-ARC from the publisher, Forever.

Worst in Show by Anna E. Collins

Synopsis: Best in Show meets You’ve Got Mail in a rivals-to-lovers romcom perfect for fans of Rachel Lynn Solomon and Mhairi McFarlane.

Publication Date: August 13, 2024

I received an e-ARC from the publisher, Forever.

Can’t Help Falling in Love by Sophie Sullivan

Synopsis: A struggling waitress and the heir to a major Seattle company stumble into a high-profile fake engagement while simultaneously trying to keep up with their own love lives in this flirty fall rom-com!

Publication Date: September 17, 2024

I received an e-ARC from the publisher, St. Martin’s Press.