Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong’s writing — formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness — are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: A second chance.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. It’s a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence.

Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable letting other people shine. Lately though, she’s been itching for something more, and returns to the lake where she spent a magical summer when she was seventeen. Then she runs into Charlie Florek. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart. Because Alice sees people — that’s why she is so good at what she does — but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back.

From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within. Beck provides instructions for engaging the “creativity spiral,” in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others — and with the world. The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life — one that can calm and inspire us as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.

The award-winning authors and podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle created We Can Do Hard Things — the guidebook for being alive — to help fellow travelers find their way through life.

It was meant to be a harmless prank. What had they done? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Better Sister and The Wife comes a suspenseful story about a vacation in the Hamptons that goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history.

From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.

Han Kang’s most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history. Blurring the boundaries between dream and reality, We Do Not Part powerfully illuminates this forgotten chapter in history, buried for decades — bringing to light the lost voices of the past to save them from oblivion. Both a hymn to an enduring friendship and an argument for remembering, it is the story of profound love in the face of unspeakable violence — and a celebration of life, however fragile it might be.

A publishing event ten years in the making — a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists — the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires. A trenchant reflection of the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.

Maya Killgore is 23 and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness (her brother’s best friend) is 38, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. Maya should just get over him – as Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced for a relationship to ever happen. But when Maya’s brother decides to get married in Sicily, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic villa for a week. And Maya decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs — even if it’s a problematic one.

Florence Grimes, a 31-year-old party girl, must clear her son Dylan’s name after Alfie Risby, his bully and heir to a frozen food empire, vanishes during a class trip. The only problem? Florence has no useful skills, let alone investigative ones, and all the other school moms hate her. Oh, and Florence has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she’d like to believe …

They call them wayward girls. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Every moment of their waking day is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. But when one girl meets a librarian who gives her an occult book on witchcraft, power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid … and it’s usually paid in blood.