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Stone Mountain is the kind of rural town you only escape from once. Tyler left at 18 to become a rockstar and never looked back—until he returns for a one-night-only benefit concert for a childhood friend. But when simmering resentments and a deadly accident prove that small-town secrets don’t stay buried, Tyler must reconcile with his past, or else he may not make it out a second time.

Vibe: Character-driven thriller

Read this book if you’ve ever had an awkward encounter with an old friend.

In an affluent suburb, Vivian is determined to join an exclusive women’s club. All she needs is a luxury pool, a few more online purchases, and for her family to keep up appearances. But after her husband, Alan, tanks a career-defining ad pitch, he moves into a playhouse in the backyard to “opt out” of the pressures of consumerism. The result is a sharp, funny satire about unhappiness, marriage, and the absurdities of suburbia.

Read this book if you’ve ever felt close to your breaking point.

The author of Hamnet returns with a generational family drama set in the aftermath of the Great Hunger in Ireland. Tomás is a mapmaker determined to show the bloody truth of the starvation written on the land. An encounter with a mysterious spring changes his life in this layered literary fiction that follows a family's hardships, weaving together folklore, historical trauma, and the struggles of emigration.

Read this book if you’re fascinated by family history.

When a stranger follows her at the Met, Daphne discovers it’s her long-lost stepfather from when she was 9. The two rekindle their extraordinary relationship, featuring a traumatic car accident and a life-changing story, in this emotional tale of grief, chosen family, and unforgotten love.

Read this book if you’ve ever wished you could reconnect with someone from your past.

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Jesse and Norman are happily married—or are they? One night Norman steps into a mysterious beam of light in the backyard and disappears. Is it alien abduction or intentional abandonment? Jesse must reckon with himself and the pain of being left behind in this portrait of a queer middle-aged marriage from the author of The Guncle.

Read this if you’ve ever felt lost in a relationship.

After 213 years, Vera is ready to die. She’s tired of her immortality, but the only way she can reverse it is to find the mysterious source of her powers. But she’s not the only one looking—her immortal brother, a secretive biotech company, and her small-town neighbors are also caught up in the race to find the secret, whether of life or of death.

Read this book if you've ever thought about living forever.

Elle is a missing folk singer, a gritty mountain healer turned music sensation known for having disappeared forever one night. Marijohn is a young musician trapped in the town in which she was abandoned as a baby, searching for answers about her mother. A meteor and a broken mandolin unite the two women’s lives and traumas in stunning ways in this story about music, resilience, and love.

If you loved Daisy Jones and the Six, want to go to Dollywood, or have ever done something everybody said you couldn't, this is the book for you.

This juicy dramedy follows a group of college friends as they meet the challenges of reaching maturity and tackling adulthood, one big party at a time—from a boozy bash in 2007 to a wedding in Cancún, a birthday weekend in the Hamptons, a suburban Halloween party, and ultimately a too-early funeral. Love, marriage, careers, addictions, friendships, and rivalries all unfold in this bighearted book.

The Flynns are a thoroughly modern, endlessly endearing family of five. The parents are too busy with their own midlife crises to keep a sharp eye on their three adolescent daughters, but what could possibly go wrong? A dubious boyfriend, an online chat room, an evil billionaire, and a church-based support group called Lost Lambs are among the troublemakers in Cash’s sharply comic romp.

Thea is a writer—or she used to be. Because her husband died the same way a character in her book did, she’s afraid anything else she writes will actually come true. After she dreams up a romance featuring an astronaut based on her late husband to help process her grief, a real astronaut crash-lands into her life and her heart. Is their budding romance the result of destiny, wishful thinking, or something more dangerous?

The perfect house is to die for—literally. In an overly competitive real estate market, Margo is tired of being outbid on every home in her dream DC neighborhood. First she needs the perfect house, then she can have the perfect child, and finally the rest of her life can begin. She can’t manage an all-cash offer, but she’s willing to do a bit of stalking (and worse) to get what she wants in this unhinged tale that will have you laughing, gasping, and locking your doors.

At a fashion magazine in the early 2000s, there are two types of girls: “show horses,” who wield beauty and privilege effortlessly, and “workhorses,” who struggle to claw their way up from the bottom. Clo is a “workhorse,” obsessed with what she doesn’t have and ruthlessly ambitious. She gets sucked into a world of ill-gotten luxury and dangerous decisions as she tries to make it big in New York City.

Three lives collide in this touching novel about immigration, motherhood and identity. On her way to Vietnam, Mimi loses her toddler at the airport. Years later, best friends Kit and Sabrina are coming of age one summer: Kit, half-Japanese and adopted by a wealthy white family, travels to Tokyo to connect with her culture as Sabrina, daughter of a strict Chinese mother, begins to confront family secrets. Mimi’s search for her child may upend all their lives.

Bex was Lizzie’s best friend until Bex ghosted her, resurfacing years later as a “traditional wife” influencer on Instagram with six kids and a perfect farm. But Bex’s life is more complicated than making sourdough bread and hawking supplements. After Bex’s husband is brutally murdered, she disappears. Did Bex do it? Lizzie must dodge jealous influencers and their schemes in the race to find answers or else lose her friend again — this time forever

Love Island meets The Hunger Games in this book that’s as compelling as reality TV. On a desert compound, contestants can complete tasks to win fabulous prizes, but they must be romantically coupled or get sent home. As the tasks become more intimate and more violent, the prizes get better — and the betrayals get bigger. How far will beautiful but desperate people go to be the last one standing?

The author of Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo returns with a dramatic queer romance set in the 80s. NASA has just begun accepting women, and Joan and Vanessa are determined to become astronauts. But between intense training, a deadly space accident, complicated families and an undeniable attraction to each other, will they make it to the stars and safely home again?

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This dizzying speculative fiction tackles AI, art and toxic female friendship in a whirl of obsession and jealousy. Enka envies fellow art student and best friend Mathilde, an artistic genius who is held back by trauma. When a new technology allows Enka to enter Mathilde’s mind, the boundaries between them and between right and wrong increasingly blur as obsession wrestles with art and technology.

Meet the extraordinary Endicotts, four siblings who lost touch after their chaotic childhood: Jude, a famous actress with three big secrets; Connor, an author with terrible writer’s block; Roddy, an athlete risking his relationship for one final season; and Gemma, the older sister, who basically raised them. To reunite during a family trip, they must come to terms with their past and one another in this touching family drama about secrets and forgiveness.