
“FANTASY FEMINOMENON” – MIDDLE GRADE FANTASY
Believing in yourself is hard enough without saving the whole world on top of it all! Find out how much Amari is willing to sacrifice

SEEKING HOME – FICTION
RACHEL KHONG’s Real Americans: A Novel spans generations of one family, from early 2000s New York City, where young and broke Lily Chen falls for

LIVING YOUR BEST QUEER LIFE – MEMOIR
Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake is KOMAIL AIJAZUDDIN’s story of courage, love, and bravery. Growing up in Pakistan, ashamed of his

FINANCE & TECH: INSIDERS’ VIEWS – NONFICTION
With an insider perspective on the insanity of high finance and venture investing, The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble follows ALOK SAMA’s

FOUR VOICES ON SAFETY & SURVIVAL – FICTION
In ELYSHA CHANG’s A Quitter’s Paradise, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as memories surface of her cold,

All HAPPY FAMILIES ARE ALIKE – FICTION
In CRIS ASCUNCE’s My Best Plan: A Novel, Gene has it all – a wonderful daughter, a flourishing career, and the love of her life,

CULTURAL WELLNESS: MIND, BODY & SOUL – NONFICTION
But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures rethinks traditional therapy and self-care. SAHAJ KAUR KOHLI, MA.ED, LGPC, weaves

NOT VERY DEMURE, NOT VERY MINDFUL: WOMEN ON THE VERGE – FICTION
In POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR’s Tehrangeles: A Novel, the Iranian American Milani family has it all – an L.A. mansion, a snack empire, and four spirited daughters:

UNSUNG HEROES & CLASS DIVIDES – FICTION
CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ’s The Great Divide: A Novel is the story of one of the most impressive feats in engineering history: the construction of the Panama

ZARA CHOWDHARY ON ANTI-MUSLIM VIOLENCE – MEMOIR
The Lucky Ones: A Memoir is a moving personal story from ZARA CHOWDHARY, a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India. Tracing a multigenerational Muslim

SMART, POLITICAL & SUBVERSIVE – FICTION
Grappling with violence and grief after the loss of his parents, Cyrus is an addict and a poet whose obsession with martyrs leads him to

HISTORICAL FICTION & FATEFUL DECISIONS
JON CLINCH’s historical The General and Julia: A Novel explores how Ulysses S. Grant’s views on race and Reconstruction changed over time. In AANCHAL MALHOTRA’s