If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel

This smoothly written autofictional work has everything but a point.

Bodock: Stories

By Robert Busby

Bodock: Stories

There’s a storm (literal or figurative) constantly brewing in this penetrating collection.

How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel

This rollicking bildungsroman unfolds amid the Civil War.

All This Can Be True

By Jen Michalski

All This Can Be True

Two very different queer women confront their pasts — and forge new paths.

That’s All I Know: A Novel

By Elisa Levi; translated by Christina MacSweeney

That’s All I Know: A Novel

A delightful tale of a sleepy Spanish town watching the world pass it by.

Hidden Heroes: Anthology of North Korean Fiction

Edited and translated by Immanuel Kim and Benoit Berthelier

Hidden Heroes: Anthology of North Korean Fiction

These nine tales offer a limited glimpse into an inscrutable land.

Behold the Bird in Flight: A Novel of an Abducted Queen

A young girl’s impetuous decision alters the course of her life.

The Living and the Rest

By José Eduardo Agualusa; translated by Daniel Hahn

The Living and the Rest

Writers at a retreat in Mozambique grapple with inner (and outer) demons.