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Wrong Way
Joanne McNeil, 2023
—Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail

The Insatiable Volt Sisters
Rachel Eve Moulton, 2023
"Weird and exhilarating and funny and sad and disturbing and scary and poignant and righteous."
—Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club

Island City
Laura Adamczyk, 2023
Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books“Utterly immersive, Island City is like an intimate conversation with a stranger at 1 am. It’s laced with stinging humor, clarifying wisdom, and the grainy detail of lived experience. This is a novel that seeps into your bones.”

Terraform
Edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans, 2022
“It will radicalize you.”
―Cory Doctorow, from the introduction

Everything I Need I Get from You
Kaitlyn Tiffany, 2022
"Everything I Need I Get from You will fascinate aficionados, but even for someone who’s never so much as logged on, it makes a rich and heartfelt explainer on the feelings and phenomena that thrive on the internet."
Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing

Nevada
Imogen Binnie; With a new afterword by the author, 2022
Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

Valleyesque
Fernando A. Flores, 2022
"These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A. Flores’s deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives."
Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

The Doloriad
Missouri Williams, 2022
Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of It and False Bingo

String Follow
, 2022
"A work of evil genius that put me in a literal trance and didn't relinquish me until the final page. I loved every insidious second.”
—Mona Awad, author of Bunny

The Uninnocent
Katharine Blake, 2021
"The Uninnocent is so elegantly crafted that the pleasure of reading it nearly overrides its devastating subject matter. Blake is an investigator of heartbreak, turning a critical eye on the ways our systems have failed us, and how we fail each other. Through that...”
Stephanie Danler, author of Stray

This Thing Between Us
Gus Moreno, 2021
“As original as it is affecting. It is a meditation on grief and on what it means to belong, and there were scenes that left me genuinely creeped out, unsettled, and shaken. An existentially frightening book.”
—Paul Tremblay, author of Survivor Song

How to Wrestle a Girl
Venita Blackburn, 2021
"How to Wrestle a Girl is a work of stunning grace and rhythm. In these stories Venita Blackburn reminds us she is a writer unlike any other, her stories propelled by voice and wit and harsh beauty."
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black

I Live a Life Like Yours
Jan Grue; Translated from the Norwegian by B. L. Crook, 2021
"A tart and spare palate cleanser tucked into the feast of summer beach reads."
--Molly Young, Vulture

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
Jessica Hopper; Foreword by Samantha Irby, 2021
[The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic] is by turns loose and warm and finicky and outraged, and its best pieces are more observant than 94 percent of the first novels that have come my way this year.
Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Field Study
Chet'la Sebree, 2021
"Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others—a mediation on desire, race, loss and survival."
Natasha Trethewey, author of Memorial Drive

King Kong Theory
Virginie Despentes; Translated from the French by Frank Wynne, 2021
Elizabeth Day, Observer

Vernon Subutex 3
Virginie Despentes; Translated from the French by Frank Wynne, 2021

The Rain Heron
Robbie Arnott, 2021
“Astonishing...With the intensity of a perfect balance between the mythic and the real, The Rain Heron keeps turning and twisting, taking you to unexpected places."
Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne

100 Boyfriends
Brontez Purnell, 2021
Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a symphony of sex, trouble and wisdom—as if the composer had sex with each member of the orchestra by way of getting it right. An electric prismatic genre-defying punk literary flight, Purnell is twirling here— I loved every page....”
Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Prefecture D
Hideo Yokoyama; Translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, 2020

Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang, 2020

Voices from the Valley
Edited by Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, 2020

Subprime Attention Crisis
Tim Hwang, 2020

What Tech Calls Thinking
Adrian Daub, 2020

The Seventh Mansion
Maryse Meijer, 2020
"Reading The Seventh Mansion feels like receiving a divine transmission from a burning bush--I was beguiled by Maryse Meijer's brave and darting sentences and challenged by the questions raised."
Catherine Lacey, author of Pew

Beowulf
Maria Dahvana Headley, 2020
"Of the four translations I’ve read, Headley’s is the most readable and engaging. She combines a modern poetry style with some of the hallmarks of Old English poetry, and the words practically sing off the page . . . Headley’s translation shows why it’s vital to...”
—Margaret Kingsbury, Buzzfeed

The Unreality of Memory
Elisa Gabbert, 2020
Sandra Newman, author of The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done

Talking Animals
Joni Murphy, 2020
Andrew Durbin, author of MacArthur Park

Vernon Subutex 2
Virginie Despentes; Translated from the French by Frank Wynne, 2020
Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

Diary of a Drag Queen
Crystal Rasmussen with Tom Rasmussen, 2020
Glamour UK

The Dominant Animal
Kathryn Scanlan, 2020
Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times

dayliGht
Roya Marsh, 2020
“dayliGht has a singular, potent, and persistent swagger—like if KRS-One had written Stone Butch Blues. In this tear-jerkingly matter-of-fact collection, Roya Marsh doesn’t propose an escape of past traumas but rather, sits in the cut, ponders, and comes back with...”
BRONTEZ PURNELL, author of 100 Boyfriends

You Will Never Be Forgotten
Mary South, 2020
Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of It

The Boatman's Daughter
Andy Davidson, 2020
Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts

Wake, Siren
Nina MacLaughlin, 2019
“Old myths translated into bright and glorious colors. I loved this.”
―Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

Dictionary of the Undoing
John Freeman; Afterword by Valeria Luiselli, 2019
Valeria Luiselli

Vernon Subutex 1
Virginie Despentes; Translated from the French by Frank Wynne, 2019
Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

False Bingo
Jac Jemc, 2019
"[A] wide-ranging, zany collection that somehow combines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood. Love the book or not, there’s no denying that Jemc has a gift for...”
Siobhan Jones, The New York Times Book Review

Tinfoil Butterfly
Rachel Eve Moulton, 2019
Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty

Tears of the Trufflepig
Fernando A. Flores, 2019
Francisco Goldman, author of The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle

Infinite Detail
Tim Maughan, 2019
Warren Ellis, author of Normal

Rag
Maryse Meijer, 2019

In Our Mad and Furious City
Guy Gunaratne, 2018
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

Hardly Children
Laura Adamczyk, 2018
Sarah Rose Etter, author of Tongue Party

Destroy All Monsters
Jeff Jackson, 2018
Publishers Weekly

Impossible Owls
Brian Phillips, 2018
"There is a section in Impossible Owls where Brian Phillips writes about tigers, and he notes that what's most astonishing about the animal is not its size or power or beauty, but its capacity to disappear. This is an excellent description of a tiger, but also an...”
Chuck Klosterman, author of But What if We’re Wrong? and Eating the Dinosaur

The Bus on Thursday
Shirley Barrett, 2018
Jennifer McMahon, author of The Winter People

Nothing Good Can Come from This
Kristi Coulter, 2018
“Perfectly observant down to the smallest details, this account of drinking, sobriety, and starting (and then restarting) a manageable life is one of those books that is deeply serious, witty, and wonderfully compelling. Nothing Good Can Come from This seems to...”
Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love

So Lucky
Nicola Griffith, 2018
"Nicola Griffith is a brilliant creator of fierce female protagonists. With So Lucky, she fires a gritty, scary, wrathful, sometimes blisteringly funny broadside at the monsters of ableist culture."
Maria Dahvana Headley, author of The Mere Wife

Acid West
Joshua Wheeler, 2018
"It’s been a long wait for Joshua Wheeler’s first book, but it would have been worth the wait even if we’d had to wait twice as long. Full of fine lines mined by a still-young writer, Acid West is worth its weight in gold."
Geoff Dyer

Things That Helped
Jessica Friedmann, 2018
Terri Apter, The Times Literary Supplement

Camp Austen
Ted Scheinman, 2018
Kirkus

The Strange Bird
Jeff VanderMeer, 2018
“VanderMeer’s apocalyptic vision, with its mix of absurdity, horror, and grace, can’t be mistaken for that of anyone else."
Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle

Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer, 2018
Matt Bell, author of A Tree Or a Person Or a Wall

The Savage
Frank Bill, 2017
Kirkus

Catalina
Liska Jacobs, 2017
Kirkus

Kung Fu High School
Ryan Gattis, 2017
Publishers Weekly

The Grip of It
Jac Jemc, 2017
Laura Pearson, Chicago Tribune

The Dark Dark
Samantha Hunt, 2017
Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

Dear Cyborgs
Eugene Lim, 2017
Publishers Weekly, starred review

Yawn
Mary Mann, 2017
Hebry Alford, New York Times

Organ Grinder
Alan Fishbone, 2017
Annie Bostrom, Booklist

Too Much and Not the Mood
Durga Chew-Bose, 2017
Vrinda Jagota, LitHub

Romanian Notebook
Cyrus Console, 2017
"Cyrus Console's Romanian Notebook is among the strangest, most compelling representations of human thought in contemporary literature . . . The thoughts Console records during his voyage are like highly formal buildings with reinforced structures that resist the...”
Michael W. Clune, Los Angeles Review of Books

Normal
Warren Ellis, 2016
Kirkus Reviews

The Tengu's Game of Go
Lian Hearn, 2016

Cannibals in Love
Mike Roberts, 2016
Men’s Fitness

The Selfishness of Others
Kristin Dombek, 2016
Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

Uproot
Jace Clayton, 2016
Daphne Kalotay, New York Times Book Review

Lord of the Darkwood
Lian Hearn, 2016

Heartbreaker
Maryse Meijer, 2016
Amelia Grey, Electric Literature

You Are Having a Good Time
Amie Barrodale, 2016
Nicholas Mancusi, The New York Times Book Review

Will & I
Clay Byars, 2016
Dannye Romine Powell, The Charlotte Observer

The Hatred of Poetry
Ben Lerner, 2016
Jeff Gordinier, New York Times

Autumn Princess, Dragon Child
Lian Hearn, 2016
Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

The New World
Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz, 2016

Emperor of the Eight Islands
Lian Hearn, 2016
Kirkus Reviews

A Burglar's Guide to the City
Geoff Manaugh, 2016
Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine and The Planetary Omnibus

Hurt People
Cote Smith, 2016
Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

Find Me
Laura van den Berg, 2016
"Radiant prose...From this memorable novel's eerie first paragraph to its enigmatic ending, Laura van den Berg has invented something beautiful indeed."
Elizabeth Hand, Los Angeles Times

Iterating Grace
Koons Crooks; Introductory Essay by Anonymous, 2015

Ugly Girls
Lindsay Hunter, 2015
"The best book I read in 2014 . . . Gorgeous and necessary."
Roxane Gay, Salon

The Pickle Index
Eli Horowitz, 2015
Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man

Terra Firma Triptych
J. M. Ledgard, 2015

Gutshot
Amelia Gray, 2015
Ramona Ausubel, The New York Times Book Review

My Prisoner
Essay by Aleksandar Hemon; Art by Velibor Bozovic, 2015

Spare Parts
Joshua Davis, 2014
Noel Sharkey, Nature

Area X
Jeff VanderMeer, 2014
Stephen King

New York 1, Tel Aviv 0
Shelly Oria, 2014
Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia!

Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer, 2014
Booklist

Nobody Is Ever Missing
Catherine Lacey, 2014
Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

The Silent History
Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett, 2014
The Wall Street Journal

The Matters of Life, Death, and More
Aleksandar Hemon, 2014

Authority
Jeff VanderMeer, 2014
Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

What We Talk About When We Talk About Birth
Elissa Schappell, 2014

Quesadillas
Juan Pablo Villalobos; Translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey; Introduction by Neel Mukherjee, 2014
Julie Morse, The Rumpus

The Isle of Youth
Laura van den Berg, 2013
Natalie Serber, The New York Times Book Review

How to Read a Novelist
John Freeman, 2013
"If you're an avid follower of contemporary fiction . . . then John Freeman’s How To Read A Novelist is the perfect, and perfectly modest, book . . . A terrific compendium of insights into what contemporary writers are thinking and how they present themselves."
Los Angeles Review of Books

My 1980s and Other Essays
Wayne Koestenbaum, 2013
"Koestenbaum's essays showcase a stunning display of carefully crafted sentences in an almost dizzying variety of arrangements. The result is a collection that is by turns funny, moving and insightful."
SF Gate

Dead Pig Collector
Warren Ellis, 2013
"[Dead Pig Collector] emerges fully-formed from the delightfully demented mind of Warren effing Ellis...Dead Pig Collector is brief but oh so bold, and predictably brilliant, right through to its abrupt ending."
Tor.com

Don't Kiss Me
Lindsay Hunter, 2013
Hope Reese, Chicago Tribune

A Long Day at the End of the World
Brent Hendricks, 2013
Suzanne Van Atten, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Donnybrook
Frank Bill, 2013
"Yes, the mayhem quotient is off the charts in Bill’s debut novel, but there is much more to Donnybrook than characters maimed and murdered in nightmarish ways. The cast is memorable, the dialogue crackles, the tension is unrelenting and it all happens for a reason....”
The Washington Post

This Is Running for Your Life
Michelle Orange, 2013
"Smart, sophisticated, and quirky, these essays showcase an original voice that uncannily captures the broodings and shadings of a generation."
Philip Lopate

Fellow Mortals
Dennis Mahoney, 2013
Publishers Weekly

Down the Rabbit Hole
Juan Pablo Villalobos; Translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey, 2012
The Guardian

The Last Bohemia
Robert Anasi, 2012
"With a fine ear for dialogue and a nonjudgmental eye, Anasi conjures the pre-9/11 atmosphere of the place, in which the beer flowed like water and there was always a place to crash after a night of pub crawling. An impressive bit of literary journalism and a...”
Kirkus Reviews

American Gypsy
Oksana Marafioti, 2012
Kirkus Reviews

People Who Eat Darkness
Richard Lloyd Parry, 2012
Susan Chira, The New York Times Book Review

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Etgar Keret; Translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, and Nathan Englander, 2012
Jonathan Safran Foer

Hemlock Grove
Brian McGreevy, 2012
Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust

Threats
Amelia Gray, 2012
Emma Straub, author of Other People We Married

Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
Friedrich Christian Delius; Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch, 2012
Cameron Martin, The New York Times Book Review

Pulphead
John Jeremiah Sullivan, 2011
New York Times Book Review

High Line
Joshua David and Robert Hammond, 2011
Sam Roberts, The New York Times
