To Paradise

The author of A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara returns with an epic spanning three centuries and three versions of the American experiment, set variously in an alternate version of 1893 New York, an AIDS-besieged 1993 Manhattan and a plague-ridden 2093. What unites these settings and the characters therein are reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.

Fiona and Jane

Spanning countries and selves, Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho is an intimate portrait of a friendship, a deep dive into the universal perplexities of being young and alive, and a bracingly honest account of two Asian women who dare to stake a claim on joy in a changing, contemporary America.

How High We Go in the Dark

From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resiliency of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.