An NPR and Vanity Fair Best Book of 2022

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inventory of the damages that underpin the surface-glamour of social media. Propulsive, dark, and moving, Aesthetica is a Veronica for the age of “Instagram face,” delivering a fresh, nuanced examination of feminism, #MeToo, and mother-daughter relationships, all while confronting our collective addiction to followers, filters, and faux realities.

A New York Times Notable Book

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water.

In this award-winning sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continues her celebrated Birchbark House series with the story of an Ojibwe family in nineteenth-century America.

In his last novel, Aldous Huxley transports readers to a Pacific island where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there.

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates.

“The most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious, and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned.” —Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

A spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950s road trip through the American South.

Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction

After a rooftop tragedy leaves her the sole survivor, Rachel is uprooted from Chicago and placed in the care of her strict grandmother. Growing up in a mostly Black community, her biracial identity sets her apart—forcing her to confront grief, belonging, and the haunting mystery of her mother’s past.

"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." —The New York Times Book Review

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year

With prose that is vibrant and witty, this tale traces the emotional breakdown—and eventual restoration—of Eliza Peabody, a smart and wildly imaginative woman who has become unbearably isolated in her prosperous London neighborhood.

"Very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny.” — Anita Brookner, award–winning author of The Debut

New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked

A magical new twist on Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In After Alice, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imaginatio