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Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Release Date: January 3

New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb, and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold.

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All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Release Date: January 10

Isabelle Drake hasn’t slept in a year. Aside from strange blackouts, she’s been in a state of severe insomnia since her toddler was stolen from his crib in the middle of the night. As the case turns cold, Isabelle turns to a shady true-crime podcaster for help. That’s when things really get dark.

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Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Release Date: January 10

It was one of the most searing images of the 20 century: two young boys—two princes—walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

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Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
Release Date: January 10

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell, even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren’t just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls.

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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Release Date: January 17

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.   Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market. But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them.

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Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
Release Date: January 17

Maggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of 29, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a surprisingly young divorcée. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 a.m., and “get back out there” sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of single life, intermittently dating, occasionally waking up on the floor and asking herself tough questions along the way.

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Maame by Jessica George
Release Date: January 31

It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing), Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from advanced-stage Parkinson’s. At work, her boss is a nightmare, and Maddie is tired of always being the only Black person in every meeting. When her mum returns from her latest trip to Ghana, Maddie leaps at the chance to get out of the family home and finally start living. But it’s not long before tragedy strikes, forcing Maddie to face the true nature of her unconventional family, and the perils––and rewards––of putting her heart on the line.

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VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Release Date: February 7

VenCo’s witches hide in plain sight wherever women gather: Tupperware parties, Mommy & Me classes, suburban book clubs. Since colonial times, they have awaited the moment the seven spoons will come together and ignite a new era, returning women to their rightful power. Lucky St. James’ seemingly mundane life is turned upside down when she finds one of the spoons and begins working with VenCo. But as reckoning approaches, a very powerful adversary is stalking the group’s every move. He’s Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as witchcraft itself.

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I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Release Date: February 21

A fortysomething podcaster and mother of two, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family history that marred her adolescence and the murder of one of her high school classmates, Thalia Keith. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are the subject of intense fascination online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie. However, Thalia’s killer might still be out there and Bodie could be the key to finally solving the case.

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Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica Berry
Release date: February 21

As Erica chronicles her own migration—from crying wolf as a child on her grandfather’s sheep farm to accidentally eating mandrake in Sicily—she searches for new expressions for how to be a brave woman, human and animal in our warming world. What do stories so long told about wolves tell us about our relationship to fear? How can our society peel back the layers of what scares us? By strategically unspooling the strands of our cultural constructions of predator and prey, and what it means to navigate a world in which we can be both, Erica bridges the gap between human fear and grief through the lens of a wrongfully misunderstood species.

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Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Release Date: March 21

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor.

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A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
Release Date: April 4

Author and journalist Nicole Chung takes the traditional memoir in a new direction by exploring the treacherous crosscurrents of class, race and inequality in America. Chung tells of her upbringing as a Korean adoptee and her terrible grief when her loving parents die in quick succession—largely due to outrageous inequalities in healthcare.

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Release Date: April 4

Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

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Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Release Date: April 11

Sally Milz is a sketch writer for a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. When Sally’s friend begins dating a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the show, he joins the not-so-exclusive group of talented but average-looking and even dorky men who’ve gotten romantically involved with incredibly beautiful and accomplished women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this phenomenon while underscoring how unlikely it is that the reverse would ever happen for a woman. Enter Noah Brewster, a pop music sensation, who signed on for this week’s show. Sally hits it off with Noah instantly, and as they collaborate on one sketch after another, she wonders if there might actually be sparks flying. But this isn’t a romantic comedy—it’s real life. And in real life, someone like him would never date someone like her… right?

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Release Date: April 11

Writer and poet Maggie Smith gets personal in this innovative take on the standard memoir format. Using a series of lyrical vignettes (and a poet’s ear for language), she digs into her own failed marriage and the strange sensations that follow coming of age in your middle age.

Happy Place by Emily Henrey
Release Date: April 25

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Release Date: May 2

Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known her role in her indigenous tribe on Sugar Island. When Native women start disappearing and her family is caught in the middle of a high-profile murder investigation, Perry questions her place as the laidback twin. As grave robbers strike the tribe, Perry must fight to save her ancestors and her tribe members before all is lost.

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
Release Date: May 16

Samantha Irby is back this spring with a hilarious new essay collection that takes us into the gory particulars of her real life, from dental troubles to a dalliance with the power of crystals and an addiction to QVC.

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Release Date: May 16

What’s the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel.

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Release Date: May 23

In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. At the group’s center are Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who “didn’t seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.” As each prepares for an uncertain future, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives—a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Release Date: July 18

It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It’s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him—until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated—and deadly.

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Release Date: July 18

Montserrat has always been overlooked. But when she becomes embroiled in cult horror director Abel Urueta’s mission to finish the legendary lost film he claims ruined his career, it brings her closer to Tristán, the man she’s loved since childhood. Hounded by dark forces, they work together to unravel the film’s mystery and discover whether there’s truth to Urueta’s tale of occultism and magic.

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
Release Date: August 1

Flor has a gift: she can predict—to the day—when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila. But Flor isn’t the only person with secrets. Spanning the three days before the wake, Family Lore traces the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of two generations of women.