LAUREN APPELBAUM’s Rachel Weiss’s Group Chat is about feeling stuck, friendship, and being open to love. Rachel relies on her juicy group chat for entertainment – until her circle of friends begins falling apart. But when she meets the millionaire next door, she realizes he may be the one person who truly sees her. ASHA ELIAS’ Pink Glass Houses: A Novel is the story of the elite world of PTA moms at Miami Beach’s most coveted elementary school.…

ISABEL BANTA’s Honey: A Novel follows the meteoric rise of a female pop star during the late 1990s and early aughts after she escapes her small town to join a popular girl group, navigating intensifying fame, exploitation, and complicated relationships. MARISSA STAPLEY’s The Lightning Bottles follows Jane Pyre, one half of the famous duo the Lightning Bottles, as she tries to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who disappeared five years earlier.…

In Have a Good Trip: Exploring the Magic MushROOM Experience, EUGENIA BONE presents a definitive guide to how and why people from all walks of life use “magic” mushrooms to enhance their lives – from microdosing to heroic trips – and shares her personal journey through this world. BENJAMIN BREEN’s Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science follows anthropologists and lovers Margaret Mead and Gary Bateson, whose partnership unlocked an untold chapter in history.…

In ABRAHAM YU-YOUNG CHANG’s 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers: A Novel, college student Young falls in love with the brilliant and charismatic Elena. But Young’s beloved uncle believes everyone gets just seven great loves in their life, and Elena is number six. Are they meant to be or fated for failure to make room for his final, seventh love? In JACKIE LAU’s Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie: A Novel, writer and barista Emily is tired of hearing her mother’ fixation on marrying her off,…

GINA MARÍA BALIBRERA’s The Volcano Daughters: A Novel introduces Graciela, a young Indigenous girl who meets the sister she never knew, who has been claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. When genocide strikes, they believe each other to be dead and escape across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate reunites them. Inspired by true events, JOY CASTRO’s One Brilliant Flame: A Novel follows six young friends in late 1800s Key West, Florida, during the height of the cigar industry.…

In CRIS ASCUNCE’s My Best Plan: A Novel, Gene has it all – a wonderful daughter, a flourishing career, and the love of her life, Isa. After same-sex marriage is legalized in Spain, Gene has an idea: move there, marry, and finally secure parental rights for her daughter. But Isa refuses, and Gene must make a decision that puts their love to the test. A.J. BERMUDEZ’s Stories No One Hopes Are About Them explores convergences of power,…

In ELYSHA CHANG’s A Quitter’s Paradise, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as memories surface of her cold, strict upbringing with immigrant parents. How do you love a person who refused to make herself known? In CRYSTAL HANA KIM’s The Stone Home: A Novel, Eunju and her mother are living on the street in South Korea when they’re captured and sent to a state-sanctioned facility – a reformatory hiding a violent reality.…

MARIE-HELENE BERTINO’s Beautyland: A Novel is a story about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. Beautyland’s gentle, unforgettable alien possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. As she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Narrated by an ensemble cast of independent outsiders who have chosen counterculture lives, STEPHEN HUNDLEY’s Bomb Island journeys through the weirds and wilds of coastal Georgia.…

MESHA MAREN’s Shae: A Novel is the story of a young couple in the heart of West Virginia: the title character, who is pregnant, and Cam, who begins using female pronouns. After the traumatic birth of their child, Shae struggles with opioid addiction while Cam continues to transition, embracing new relationships and facing the reality of being a trans woman in rural America. JENNIFER BELLE’s Swanna in Love: A Novel begins with its 14-year-old protagonist being picked up at summer camp by her mom and her new Russian lover.…