New Books in Literature
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Aisha Sasha John, "total: poems" (Random House, 2025)
26 mins; October 09, 2025
Taylor Byas, "Resting Bitch Face: Poems" (Catapult, 2025)
61 hours 13 mins; October 08, 2025
Virginia Woolf, "The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories" (Princeton UP, 2025)
44 mins; October 07, 2025
Barbara Stark-Nemon, "Isabela's Way: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2025)
24 mins; September 30, 2025
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, "Mutual Interest" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
55 mins; September 29, 2025
Zilla Jones, "The World So Wide" (Cormorant Books, 2025)
56 mins; September 28, 2025
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, "The Creation of Half-Broken People" (House of Anansi, 2025)
41 mins; September 27, 2025
Lucy Black, "A Quilting of Scars" (Now or Never Publishing, 2025)
39 mins; September 23, 2025
Karen Smythe, "A Town with No Noise" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)
34 mins; September 21, 2025
Yiming Ma, "These Memories Do Not Belong To Us" (Mariner Books, 2025)
38 mins; September 19, 2025
Nadia Ragbar, "The Pugilist and the Sailor" (Invisible Publishing, 2025)
43 mins; September 14, 2025
Susan Gregg Gilmore, "The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush" (Blair, 2025)
34 mins; September 13, 2025
Emily Adrian, "Seduction Theory" (Little, Brown, 2025)
35 mins; September 12, 2025
Ham’s Heaven with Ori Gersht
67 hours 0 mins; September 11, 2025
Thomas Schlesser, "Mona's Eyes" (Europa Editions, 2025)
25 mins; September 09, 2025
Maria Dadouch, "I Want Golden Eyes" (U Texas Press, 2025)
25 mins; September 06, 2025
Meghana V. Nayak, "Tilt: A Novel on Intergenerational Trauma" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
40 mins; September 05, 2025
Jeremy Gordon, "See Friendship: A Novel" (Harper Perennial, 2025)
52 mins; September 03, 2025
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, "The Sisters" (FSG, 2025)
55 mins; September 03, 2025
Lynda Williams, "The Beauty and the Hell of It and Other Stories" (Guernica, 2025)
23 mins; September 02, 2025
Catherine Merridale, "Moscow Underground" (HarperColins, 2025)
33 mins; September 01, 2025
Lily Lloyd Burkhalter, "Raffia Memory," The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
31 mins; August 29, 2025
Alina Adams, "Go On Pretending" (History Through Fiction, 2025)
26 mins; August 26, 2025
Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little, Brown, 2024)
54 mins; August 23, 2025
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)
29 mins; August 21, 2025
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
72 hours 40 mins; August 16, 2025
Nell Stevens, "The Original" (Norton, 2025)
53 mins; August 15, 2025
Joyce Hinnefeld, "The Dime Museum" (Unbridled Books, 2025)
28 mins; August 12, 2025
Kathleen Waites, "The Faithful Ones" (Invictus, 2025)
45 mins; August 07, 2025
Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)
51 mins; August 05, 2025
Michelle De Kretser, "Theory & Practice" (Catapult, 2025)
63 hours 10 mins; August 04, 2025
Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
32 mins; August 03, 2025
Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)
50 mins; August 02, 2025
Aatish Taseer, "A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile" (Catapult, 2025)
48 mins; July 31, 2025
Rehearsals for Dying
62 hours 11 mins; July 31, 2025
TherĂ­ Alyce Pickens, "What Had Happened Was" (Duke UP, 2025)
79 hours 32 mins; July 31, 2025
Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025)
46 mins; July 29, 2025
Saad Omar Khan, "Drinking the Ocean" (Buckrider Books, 2025)
33 mins; July 25, 2025
Mariah Rigg, "Target Island," The Common (Spring, 2025)
40 mins; July 24, 2025
Cynthia Blakeley, "The Innermost House: A Memoir" (Bright Leaf, 2024)
58 mins; July 24, 2025
Sanjena Sathian, "Goddess Complex" (Penguin Press, 2025)
42 mins; July 24, 2025
James Cairns, "In Crisis, on Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2025)
48 mins; July 23, 2025
Greg Rhyno, "Who by Water" (Cormorant Books, 2025)
45 mins; July 22, 2025
Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
50 mins; July 21, 2025
Wendy Holden, "The Teacher of Auschwitz: A Novel" (Harper, 2025)
77 hours 14 mins; July 15, 2025
Lorna Graham, "Where You Once Belonged: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2025)
35 mins; July 15, 2025
Gary Baum, "In Pursuit of Beauty" (Blackstone, 2025)
44 mins; July 12, 2025
Fadi Zaghmout, "The Man of Middling Height" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
19 mins; July 09, 2025
Lacy Fewer, "Yankeeland" (Koehler Books, 2025)
28 mins; July 08, 2025
Alexis Von Konigslow, "The Exclusion Zone" (Buckrider Books, 2025)
34 mins; July 08, 2025
Alpha Nkuranga, "Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience" (Goose Lane, 2024)
42 mins; July 07, 2025
Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rare Bird Books, 2025)
74 hours 32 mins; July 06, 2025
Dennard Dayle, "How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel" (Henry Holt, 2025)
63 hours 30 mins; July 06, 2025
Jesse Browner, "Sing to Me" (Little Brown, 2025)
56 mins; July 04, 2025
Libby Buck, "Port Anna" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
24 mins; July 01, 2025
Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining" (Milkweed, 2025)
71 hours 59 mins; July 01, 2025
Lindsay Zier-Vogel, "The Fun Times Brigade" (Book*hug Press, 2025)
44 mins; June 30, 2025
Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (Tor Books, 2025)
33 mins; June 29, 2025
Bianca Marais, "A Most Puzzling Murder" (Harper Collins, 2025)
35 mins; June 29, 2025
John DeVore, "Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway" (Applause, 2024)
55 mins; June 28, 2025
Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods" (Milkweed Editions, 2025)
62 hours 8 mins; June 28, 2025
Pria Anand "The Elephant's Child" The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
54 mins; June 27, 2025
Naomi Xu Elegant, "Gingko Season: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
37 mins; June 26, 2025
Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books, 2025)
36 mins; June 25, 2025
Kay Sohini, "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
23 mins; June 25, 2025
Simon Tolkien, "The Palace at the End of the Sea: A Novel" (Lake Union Publishing, 2025)
28 mins; June 24, 2025
Kathryn Mockler, "Anecdotes" (Book*hug Press, 2023)
34 mins; June 24, 2025
Alice Fitzpatrick, "A Dark Death" (Stonehouse Publishing, 2025)
34 mins; June 22, 2025
Kevin Nguyen, "My Documents" (One World, 2025)
48 mins; June 21, 2025
Christy Climenhage, "The Midnight Project" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
37 mins; June 21, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
44 mins; June 20, 2025
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
49 mins; June 20, 2025
Omneya Ayad, "Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Understanding of the Divine Word" (Routledge, 2023)
39 mins; June 20, 2025
Helen Sheehy, "Just Willa" (Cave Hollow Press, 2025)
32 mins; June 18, 2025
Leah Lax, "Not From Here: the Song of America" (Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie, 2024)
27 mins; June 17, 2025
Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025)
63 hours 1 min; June 16, 2025
Catherine Bush, "Skin" (Goose Lane Editions, 2025)
43 mins; June 14, 2025
Daryl Sneath, "In the Country in the Dark" (Signature Editions, 2023)
32 mins; June 11, 2025
Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew eds., "A Thousand Tiny Awakenings" (Latitude 46, 2025)
31 mins; June 11, 2025
Rob Franklin, "Great Black Hope" (Summit Books, 2025)
47 mins; June 10, 2025
Callista Markotich, "Wrap in a Big White Towel" (Frontenac House, 2024)
36 mins; June 10, 2025
Jack Wang, "The Riveter" (HarperVia, 2025)
52 mins; June 09, 2025
Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
41 mins; June 09, 2025
Teri Vlassopoulos, "Living Expenses" (Invisible Publishing, 2025)
35 mins; June 08, 2025
Lindsay Wong, "Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories" (Penguin, 2023)
36 mins; June 07, 2025
Melia McClure, "All the World's a Wonder" (Radiant Press, 2022)
37 mins; June 07, 2025
Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)
55 mins; June 06, 2025
Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
67 hours 22 mins; June 06, 2025
We Better Laugh About It: A Discussion with Álvaro Enrigue and Maia Gil’Adí
47 mins; June 05, 2025
Anthony Bidulka, "Home Fires Burn" (Stonehouse Publishing, 2025)
60 hours 4 mins; June 04, 2025
Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)
53 mins; June 02, 2025
Jacob McArthur Mooney, "The Northern: A Novel" (ECW Press, 2025)
54 mins; June 02, 2025
Andrew Forbes, "McCurdle's Arm: A Fiction" (Invisible Publishing, 2024)
61 hours 58 mins; June 01, 2025
Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, "One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature" (U Arkansas Press, 2010)
68 hours 5 mins; May 31, 2025
Jeff Nania, "River Gold: A Northern Lakes Mystery" (Feet Wet Writing, 2025)
20 mins; May 29, 2025
Emily Everett, "All That Life Can Afford" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025)
46 mins; May 28, 2025
Gina Leola Woolsey, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
36 mins; May 27, 2025
Lucas Schaefer, "Tuesday" The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
33 mins; May 26, 2025
Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
84 hours 30 mins; May 25, 2025
Reem Gaafar, "A Mouth Full of Salt" (Saqi Books, 2024)
38 mins; May 24, 2025