What To Read

Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood

From the iconic author of The Handmaid’s Tale comes a collection of 15 short stories about relationships, loss, love and everything in between.

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson 

This highly anticipated escapist novel follows three women in one upper-crust Brooklyn clan.

Birnam Wood By Eleanor Catton

Written by the youngest author to ever win the Booker prize, this gripping psychological thriller follows a guerrilla gardening group as they stumble upon a seemingly abandoned farm after a landslide closes New Zealand's Korowai Pass. But they're not the only ones interested in the property as American billionaire Robert Lemoine has plans for an end-times bunker.

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

Author of the acclaimed How to Do Nothing, about resisting the attention economy, Jenny Odell is back with an equally ambitious call to action: to liberate ourselves from the ticking clock. By offering different ways to think about time, inspired by pre-industrial cultures and geological timescales, Odell attempts to bring more hope to our daily lives — and even counteract climate dread.

Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery

In this sharp Sally Rooney-endorsed novel, a 17-year-old girl lands a job transcribing a strange novel for Andy Warhol. What follows is a coming-of-age journey amid the upheaval of 1960’s New York City.

Confidence by Rafael Frumkin 

This darkly comical caper lays bare the absurdity of the American Dream. Friends (and sometimes lovers) Ezra and Orson set out on a quest to establish a company that promises immediate enlightenment, but their scam spins out of control.

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

Claire Jiménez's debut novel revolves around the disappearance of 13-year-old Ruthy Ramirez. When a potential Ruthy appears on a TV show 12 years later, the family sets out on a road trip in search for the truth.

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova 

What can a mother’s grief do? In Gerardo Sámano Córdova surreal debut novel, Magos takes a piece of her dead son’s lung and nurtures it until it grows into a little monster, a monster who wants to be a man. Sometimes death is not the worst you can face.

Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah

Can one truly feel rooted in a home that is on the brink of collapse? This intimate depiction of a British Ghanaian couple explores the harsh realities of marriage, parenthood and unfulfilled dreams.

Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal 

Set in Singapore, this novel follows three workers who share one thing in common: they are all maids working under strict rules of invisibility. But when a fellow Filipina maid is arrested for killing her employer, the trio uses their wit and insight to solve the mystery.

Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World by Eliane Brum

Brazilian journalist, documentarist and activist Eliane Brum gave up a comfortable life in São Paulo to take a journey to Altamira to uncover what was under the surface of a profound social and environmental crisis. The story of her journey gives readers a front-row seat to the destruction of the Amazon and the role governments and corporations have played in it over time, nonetheless leaving a spark of hope and calling for an urgent change.

Other New Releases This Week:

Weyward (Emilia Hart)

The Dig (Anne Burt)

River Spirit (Leila Aboulela)

The Curator (Owen King)

Thirst for Salt (Madelaine Luca)

The God of Endings (Jacqueline Holland)

The Farewell Tour (Stephanie Clifford)

What Have We Done (Alex Finlay)

In Memoriam (Alice Winn)

Love at Six Thousand Degrees (Maki Kashimada)

Women Are the Fiercest Creatures (Andrea Dunlop)

The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner

War Diary (Yevgenia Belorusets)

Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough (Dina Nayeri)

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (David Waldstreicher)

Stash: My Life in Hiding (Laura Cathcart Robbins) 

The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance (Dan Egan)

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult (Michelle Dow) 

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began (Leah Hazard)

The Fifth Wound (Aurora Mattia)