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Anise Vance, "Hush Harbor" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)

37 mins; September 05, 2023

Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)

33 mins; September 05, 2023

Salar Abdoh, "Out of Mesopotamia" (Akashic Books, 2020)

77 hours 20 mins; September 03, 2023

Katherine Heiny, "Games and Rituals: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)

35 mins; September 01, 2023

Andrew Varga, "The Last Saxon King: A Jump in Time Novel (Book One)" (Imbrifex Books, 2023)

39 mins; September 01, 2023

Nishanth Injam, "The Best Possible Experience: Stories" (Pantheon, 2023)

36 mins; August 31, 2023

Jerome Charyn, "Ravage & Son" (Bellevue Literary Press, 2023)

39 mins; August 31, 2023

Aparna Verma, "The Phoenix King" (Orbit, 2023)

32 mins; August 28, 2023

CK Westbrook, "The Judgment" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2023)

42 mins; August 27, 2023

Ala Fox, "Ramadan in Saint-Denis" (The Common Magazine, Issue 25)

53 mins; August 25, 2023

Garth Nix, "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer" (Harper Voyager, 2023)

29 mins; August 23, 2023

Nazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)

42 mins; August 22, 2023

Marty Wingate, "The Orphans of Mersea House" (Crooked Lane Books, 2022)

19 mins; August 22, 2023

B. D'Amato, "Triskele: A Novel" (Atmosphere Press, 2023)

51 mins; August 21, 2023

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, "The Witch and the Tsar" (Ace Books, 2022)

36 mins; August 18, 2023

Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond

28 mins; August 17, 2023

Molly Peacock, "A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form" (Palimpsest Press, 2022)

57 mins; August 15, 2023

M. A. Carrick, "Labyrinth's Heart" (Orbit, 2023)

52 mins; August 12, 2023

Michelle Brafman, "Swimming with Ghosts" (Keylight Books, 2023)

22 mins; August 07, 2023

T. Kingfisher, "Thornhedge" (Tor, 2023)

36 mins; August 03, 2023

Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

48 mins; August 03, 2023

Nick Harkaway, "Titanium Noir" (Knopf, 2023)

42 mins; August 03, 2023

Elizabeth Graver, "Kantika: A Novel" (Metropolitan Books, 2023)

29 mins; August 01, 2023

Linda Nemec Foster, "Bone Country: Prose Poems" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)

74 hours 12 mins; August 01, 2023

Arin Greenwood, "Your Robot Dog Will Die" (Soho, 2019)

63 hours 12 mins; July 31, 2023

Cecilia Gentili, "Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist" (Littlepuss Press, 2022)

50 mins; July 29, 2023

Kate Doyle, "I Meant It Once" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

48 mins; July 28, 2023

Leanne Kale Sparks, "Every Missing Girl" (Crooked Lane Books, 2023)

24 mins; July 26, 2023

Amy Grace Loyd, "The Pain of Pleasure" (Roundabout Press, 2023)

26 mins; July 25, 2023

Alejandro Varela, "The Town of Babylon" (Astra, 2022)

43 mins; July 24, 2023

Matt Donovan, "Guy with a Gun" The Common Magazine (Fall, 2023)

40 mins; July 21, 2023

Tenzin Dickie, "The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays" (Vintage Books, 2023)

45 mins; July 20, 2023

CK Westbrook, "The Collision" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022)

38 mins; July 19, 2023

Jeri Westerson, "The Isolated Séance" (Severn House, 2023)

22 mins; July 18, 2023

Steve Fox, "Sometimes Creek" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)

73 hours 19 mins; July 18, 2023

Jennifer Savran Kelly, "Endpapers" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

41 mins; July 17, 2023

Rachel Mennies, "The Naomi Letters" (BOA Editions, 2021)

63 hours 29 mins; July 15, 2023

Hannah Pittard, "We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]" (Henry Holt, 2023)

55 mins; July 14, 2023

Ruth Madievsky, "All-Night Pharmacy" (Catapult, 2023)

46 mins; July 11, 2023

Oksana Lutsysyna, "Ivan and Phoebe" (Deep Vellum, 2023)

41 mins; July 11, 2023

Elle Marr, "The Family Bones" (Thomas & Mercer, 2023)

25 mins; July 09, 2023

Karen Lord, "The Blue, Beautiful World" (Del Rey, 2023)

40 mins; July 06, 2023

Meryl Ain, "Shadows We Carry" (Sparkspress, 2023)

27 mins; July 04, 2023

CK Westbrook, "The Shooting" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022)

46 mins; July 02, 2023

Peter Mann, "The Torqued Man" (Harper Perennial, 2022)

58 mins; July 02, 2023

Victor LaValle, "Lone Women: A Novel" (One World, 2023)

48 mins; June 30, 2023

Ginny Kubitz Moyer, "The Seeing Garden" (She Writes Press, 2023)

39 mins; June 30, 2023

Sarah Conover, "Set Adrift: A Mystery and a Memoir" (55 Fathoms Publishing, 2023)

28 mins; June 27, 2023

Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)

42 mins; June 27, 2023

L. R. Lam, "Dragonfall" (DAW, 2023)

36 mins; June 22, 2023

Joan Schweighardt, "Under the Blue Moon" (Five Directions Press, 2023)

28 mins; June 20, 2023

Anna Lee Huber, "A Fatal Illusion" (Berkley Books, 2023)

40 mins; June 20, 2023

Scott Russell Duncan, "El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl" (2022)

48 mins; June 20, 2023

Michele Herman, "Just Another Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes" (Finishing Line Press, 2022)

72 hours 46 mins; June 20, 2023

Mag Gabbert, "Sex Depression Animals" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

54 mins; June 19, 2023

Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)

42 mins; June 18, 2023

Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)

45 mins; June 16, 2023

Gerardo Sámano Córdova, "Iceberg, Mine" The Common magazine (Fall, 2022)

31 mins; June 16, 2023

A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)

43 mins; June 15, 2023

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

55 mins; June 15, 2023

Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)

24 mins; June 13, 2023

Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature" (Rose Metal Press, 2023)

51 mins; June 10, 2023

Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)

54 mins; June 09, 2023

Liisa Kovala, "Sisu's Winter War" (Latitude 46, 2022)

71 hours 36 mins; June 09, 2023

Emily Hockaday, "Naming the Ghost" (Cornerstone Press, 2022)

63 hours 5 mins; June 06, 2023

Sara Alvarado, "Dreaming in Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta" (Little Creek Press, 2023)

27 mins; June 06, 2023

Katharine Beutner, "Killingly" (Soho Press, 2023)

36 mins; June 05, 2023

Monica Macias, "Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" (Duckworth, 2023)

38 mins; June 01, 2023

They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tisyera

56 mins; June 01, 2023

Emma Mieko Candon, "The Archive Undying" (Tordotcom, 2023)

52 mins; May 31, 2023

Neighbor George

55 mins; May 31, 2023

Claudia H. Long, "Our Lying Kin" (Kasva Press, 2023)

22 mins; May 30, 2023

Susan Stinson, "Martha Moody" (Small Beer Press, 2020)

27 mins; May 27, 2023

Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in the Sea" (MCD, 2022)

56 mins; May 27, 2023

Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)

43 mins; May 26, 2023

Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky, "In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)

64 hours 38 mins; May 24, 2023

Jessica Stilling, "After the Barricades" (DX Varos, 2023)

29 mins; May 23, 2023

Anne-Marie Oomen, "As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

65 hours 36 mins; May 23, 2023

Girls Against God

47 mins; May 23, 2023

Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)

37 mins; May 19, 2023

David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)

21 mins; May 18, 2023

The Meat and Bones of Life

48 mins; May 17, 2023

Aaron Hamburger, "Hotel Cuba" (Harper Perennial, 2023)

27 mins; May 16, 2023

Jolene McIlwain, "Sidle Creek" (Melville House, 2023)

47 mins; May 13, 2023

Eirinie Carson, "The Dead are Gods" (Melville House, 2023)

33 mins; May 12, 2023

Jenifer Debellis, "New Wilderness" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)

70 hours 23 mins; May 12, 2023

Heather Bourbeau, "Monarch" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)

60 hours 19 mins; May 09, 2023

Robin Lee Carlson, "Reading the Ashes," The Common Magazine (Fall, 2022)

32 mins; May 09, 2023

Marian O'Shea Wernicke, "Out of Ireland" (She Writes Press, 2023)

39 mins; May 09, 2023

Aleksandar Hemon, "The World and All That It Holds" (MCD, 2023)

52 mins; May 07, 2023

Gareth L. Powell, "Descendant Machine" (Titan Books, 2023)

41 mins; May 04, 2023

Melvin Burgess, "Loki: A Novel" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

16 mins; May 04, 2023

Edgar Gomez, "High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir" (Soft Skull, 2022)

42 mins; May 03, 2023

Helen Sword, "Writing with Pleasure" (Princeton UP, 2023)

71 hours 45 mins; May 03, 2023

Lavinia Singer, "Artifice" (Prototype, 2023)

44 mins; May 03, 2023

Evie Shockley, "Suddenly We" (Wesleyan UP, 2023)

75 hours 0 mins; May 01, 2023

Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)

44 mins; April 28, 2023

Rachel Heng, "The Great Reclamation" (Riverhead Books, 2023)

26 mins; April 25, 2023

Tawanda Mulalu, "Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die" (Princeton UP, 2022)

32 mins; April 24, 2023

Volodymyr Rafeyenko, "The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad" (HURI, 2023)

47 mins; April 23, 2023

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