Motherthing: A Novel

By Ainslie Hogarth

Motherthing: A Novel

A surprisingly wry blood-spattered tale.

My Monticello

By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

My Monticello

A wry, captivating reimagining of history both recent and receding.

Thistlefoot: A Novel

By GennaRose Nethercott

Thistlefoot: A Novel

A moving Baba Yaga tale recast with estranged American siblings.

Valley of Shadows: A Novel

A heavy dose of magical realism keeps the pages turning in this gritty, neo-Western mystery.

The Dog of Tithwal

By Saadat Hasan Manto; translated by Khalid Hasan and Aatish Taseer

The Dog of Tithwal

A charged, sober collection about life in post-partition India and Pakistan.

The Hero of This Book: A Novel

By Elizabeth McCracken

The Hero of This Book: A Novel

Readers will be delighted co-conspirators in allowing this memoir to masquerade as fiction.

Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel

A raucous, Dickensian jaunt through Jazz Age London.

The Body Scout

By Lincoln Michel

The Body Scout

Despite its many wild parts, this sci-fi/murder mystery comes together in an utterly satisfying whole.