New Arrivals: The Best Recent Book Releases

Originally published 30 years ago and now back in print, this novel from the late Belgian writer follows a woman whose mind suddenly splits—part of her consciousness waking up in the body of a young man. As their lives intersect, she’s forced to reckon with the self she’s never fully lived. With I Who Have Never Known Men going viral on TikTok, Harpman’s fearless fiction is reaching a new generation of readers.

Lily King is back with another literary triangle, as a college love affair reverberates into midlife. Decades after a brief, intense entanglement with two classmates, a woman is forced to confront the choices that shaped her life. “King is a genius at writing love stories,” said Kirkus in a starred review. “Tenderhearted readers will soak the pages of the last chapter with tears.”

In her first work of nonfiction, Enriquez turns her gothic gaze to cemeteries across the globe—from Paris’s catacombs to Buenos Aires’s Recoleta. Combining memoir, history, and hauntology, she reflects on grief, ghosts, and the stories we leave behind.

Set during a rising agricultural strike in Texas, this taut, never-before-published novella explores race, labor, and power with Leonard’s signature grit. A timely story of solidarity and resistance from “the greatest crime writer of our time” (NYT Book Review).

Set in a surreal research institute where cursed objects accumulate and boundaries blur, this chilling and wildly imaginative novel unfolds through linked ghost stories—from a sneaker that stalks its thief to a haunted cat seeking justice. “Midnight Timetable does what the best of horror, sci-fi, and other genre writing can achieve: It renders our present realities strange again,” praised Foreign Policy.

A legendary intellectual and an ex-guerilla president reflect on the perils of our time—climate collapse, corruption, populism—and the values needed to endure. A powerful and urgent guide for the next generation.

As a cyclone nears, a poet returns home and unearths the buried legacy of his father, a writer targeted under Portuguese rule. Blending archival fragments with lyrical prose, Couto explores the violence of colonial memory and the instability of truth.

From fake news to ecstatic truth, Herzog interrogates what truth really means in our digital, deepfaked age. Blending memoir, philosophy, and his singular voice, this compact book is both a warning and a wonder.

When a broke and grieving woman accidentally goes viral, she’s thrust into the spotlight as an accidental self-help savior—while still unraveling her own story. Jade Chang’s exuberant novel of online fame, public performance, and private wounds “casts a keen eye on the frenzy of social media and the disingenuous and addictive world of influencers and the influenced,” wrote BookPage.

In a Toronto nail salon where every worker is named “Susan,” a retired boxer files and buffs her way through a single summer day. Beneath the rote rituals of service work, she reflects on lost chances, power dynamics among her co-workers, and the violence of erasure.