In honor of awards season, our staff selected their top picks for their most-anticipated literary fiction and nonfiction reads. Browse the list below for eGalleys, audio information, and more.
Browse an extended collection on Edelweiss here.
Rachel’s Pick
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs.
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Elizabeth’s Pick
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
We are living on the wrong clock, and it is destroying us. The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing offers us different ways to experience time in this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book.
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Maureen’s Pick
Holler, Child: Stories by LaToya Watkins
An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness—from a writer whose “spellbinding, buoyant”* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds. *Texas Monthly
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Jen C.’s Pick
Crook Manifesto: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
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Kelly’s Pick
We Are a Haunting: A Novel by Tyriek White
A poignant debut for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Jamel Brinkley, We Are a Haunting follows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts: a story of hope and transformation.
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Liz’s Pick
Take What You Need: A Novel by Idra Novey
From “one of the finest and bravest novelists at work today,” (Vulture) award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of “astonishing and singular” honesty (Rumaan Alam) with two determined, unforgettable female voices.
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Read an author letter from Idra Novey here.
Sharnell’s Pick
The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by Leta McCollough Seletzky
The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr—and a daughter’s quest for the truth about her father.
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Miriam’s Pick
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva
The Undocumented Americans meets Tell Me How It Ends in this chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States’ “immigration crisis.”
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Jen R.’s Pick
Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years by Heidi Julavits
A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.”
“An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George Saunders
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Kate’s Pick
Directions to Myself: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin
From the winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize and a New York Public Library Cullman fellow comes 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.
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