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Look forward to more of the exquisite, high-wire sex writing that has earned Greenwell his reputation.

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Both whimsical and profound,Interior Chinatownis a bildungsroman for the binge-watch generation.

Worry fills every empty pocket of my days rising seas, rising fascism, lowering morale.

Jenny Offill, and her magnificent new novel,Weather, get it.

“Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid

Told in exquisite, perfectly shaped fragments (Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters?

Old person worry: What if everything I do does?

),Weatheris a book of prayer and a Book of Revelations.

Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick: Stories From the Harlem Renaissance, by Zora Neale Hurston

(Danny is a Westernization of Dhananjaya Rajaratnam.)

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The vampire genre has been dead for years.

In his 2017 novella,Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time, the queer and trans author K.M.

Cleanness, by Garth Greenwell

Szpara managed to give it new life.

No less of an authority on the macabre and subversive than Carmen Maria Machado has lauded it on Twitter.

Disturbing, kinky & queer af, shewrote.

‘Uncanny Valley’ by Anna Wiener

It is very upsetting but I promise you will tear through it.

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National Book Award winner Louise Erdrich has been drawing inspiration from her Chippewa heritage since the 1970s.

Three years after Standing Rock, the story of that fight feels as urgent as ever.

Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu

This novel will become a defining classic for struggling young writers.

Every single sentence is exquisite.

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Nobody yet has their hands on the final installment of Mantels double Man Bookerwinning Thomas Cromwell trilogy.

Weather, by Jenny Offill

IfStation Elevenmade Mandel a phenom,The Glass Hotelwill solidify her as a defining cross-genre talent.

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A breakthrough voice of the previous decade, Sam Irby is poised to reign in the 2020s.

Either way, itll be a publishing event and will most likely suck you right in.

Amnesty, by Aravind Adiga

Gyasi has the lightest touch on the page and yet her writing wiggles its way into your dreams.

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Real Life, by Brandon Taylor

Docile, by K.M. Szpara

The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

We Ride Upon Sticks, by Quan Barry

Writers & Lovers, by Lily King

My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell

New Waves, by Kevin Nguyen

Recollections of My Nonexistence, by Rebecca Solnit

The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel

The City We Became, by N.K. Jemisin

The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel

Hex, by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Wow, No Thank You., by Sam Irby

Godshot, by Chelsea Bieker

Death in Her Hands, by Ottessa Moshfegh (June 23)

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, by Laila Lalami

Antkind, by Charlie Kaufman (July 7)

Pew, by Catherine Lacey (July 21)

These Women, by Ivy Pochoda

‘The Vanishing Half,’ by Brit Bennett

Want, by Lynn Steger Strong

‘Transcendent Kingdom,’ by Yaa Gyasi