Diverse Book Club Picks
Clark and Division
Radiant Fugitives
Velvet Was the Night
Naomi Hirahara
Nawaaz Ahmed
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A Play for the End of the World
HC: 978-1-64129-249-8 eBook: 978-1-64129-250-4 Soho Crime | 75,000 On Sale August 3, 2021
HC: 978-1-64009-404-8 eBook: 978-1-64009-405-5 Counterpoint | 50,000 On Sale August 3, 2021
Set in 1944 Chicago, Edgar Awardwinner Naomi Hirahara's eye-opening and poignant new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.
A dazzling, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change.
HC: 978-0-593-35682-1 eBook: 978-0-593-35683-8 DN: 978-0-593-45607-1 LP: 978-0-593-50850-3 Del Rey | 250,000 On Sale August 17, 2021
HC: 978-0-525-65892-4 eBook: 978-0-525-65893-1 DN: 978-0-593-45403-9 Knopf | 20,000 On Sale September 7, 2021
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome gangster, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.
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Beautiful Country Qian Julie Wang HC: 978-0-385-54721-5 eBook: 978-0-385-54724-6 DN: 978-0-593-45553-1 LP: 978-0-593-46001-6 Doubleday | 125,000 On Sale September 7, 2021
The Shaadi Set-Up
My Sweet Girl
Jai Chakrabarti
A dazzling debut novel-set in early 1970's New York and rural India-the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Harlem Shuffle
Lillie Vale
Amanda Jayatissa
Colson Whitehead
TR: 978-0-593-32871-2 eBook: 978-0-593-33114-9 DN: 978-0-593-45159-5 G.P. Putnam's Sons | 40,000 On Sale September 7, 2021
HC: 978-0-593-33508-6 eBook: 978-0-593-33510-9 DN: 978-0-593-45653-8 Berkley | 60,000 On Sale September 14, 2021
HC: 978-0-385-54513-6 eBook: 978-0-385-54514-3 CD: 978-0-593-45554-8 DN: 978-0-593-45556-2 LP: 978-0-593-46018-4 Doubleday | 350,000 On Sale September 14, 2021
In this witty and heartfelt rom-com debut for fans of Jasmine Guillory and An incandescent and heartrending Emily Henry, an Indian American memoir from an astonishing new woman signs herself and her talent, Beautiful Country puts readers boyfriend up for a matchmaking site in the shoes of an undocumented to prove they're a perfect match, only child living in poverty in the richest to be paired with her ex instead. country in the world. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.
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Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she's about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
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Stones
Sankofa
Kevin Young
Chibundu Onuzo
HC: 978-1-5247-3256-1 eBook: 978-1-5247-3257-8 DN: 978-0-593-55493-7 Knopf | 10,000 On Sale September 21, 2021
HC: 978-1-64622-083-0 eBook: 978-1-64622-084-7 Catapult | 50,000 On Sale October 5, 2021
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation.” (Los Angeles Times). Click to Learn More About the Poetry Collection.
Girl, Woman, Other meets An American Marriage in this gripping story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by a prizewinning writer who "brilliantly captures the essence of a people and a place" (Nicole Dennis-Benn). Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
The Spanish Daughter Lorena Hughes TR: 978-1-4967-3624-6 Kensington | 25,000 On Sale December 28, 2021
Set against the lush backdrop of early twentieth century Ecuador and inspired by the real-life history of the coastal town known as the birthplace of cacao, this captivating #OwnVoices novel from the award-winning author of The Sisters of Alameda Street tells the story of a resourceful young chocolatier who must impersonate a man in order to survive. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Monster in the Middle
The 1619 Project
Tiphanie Yanique
Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones & The New York Times Magazine
HC: 978-1-59463-360-7 eBook: 978-0-698-18389-6 DN: 978-0-593-45834-1 LP: 978-0-593-45966-9 Riverhead Books | 30,000 On Sale October 19, 2021
From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
HC: 978-0-593-23057-2 eBook: 978-0-593-23058-9 DN: 978-0-593-45229-5 LP: 978-0-593-50171-9 One World | 100,000 On Sale November 16, 2021 A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. Click to Learn More About the Book. Learn About The 1619 Project: Born on the Water.
Black Cake
Fiona and Jane
Brown Girls
Jean Chen Ho
Daphne Palasi Andreades
Charmaine Wilkerson
HC: 978-0-593-29604-2 eBook: 978-0-593-29605-9 DN: 978-0-593-45217-2 Viking | 100,000 On Sale January 4, 2022
HC: 978-0-593-24342-8 eBook: 978-0-593-24343-5 DN: 978-0-593-41640-2 Random House | 50,000 On Sale January 4, 2022
HC: 978-0-593-35833-7 eBook: 978-0-593-35834-4 DN: 978-0-593-50522-9 Ballantine Books | 100,000 On Sale February 1, 2022
A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades.
A blazingly original debut novel about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York-a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.
In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.
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