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Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Atlantic)

Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize

Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread by Dorothy Grant (Figure 1 Publishing)

"In an industry that often overlooks Indigenous talent, An Endless Thread serves as a long-overdue celebration of Grant, who has long advocated for the intersection of cultural pride, style, and a maintaining of tradition." - Vogue

I Wonder About Worlds by James Gladstone (Owlkids Books)

"James Gladstone’s text skillfully blends facts about the planets in our solar system — and well beyond — with a sweet tale about an ungendered child and adult who set up a telescope in a field and “look deep” into the evening sky." - New York Times

Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie by Steve Wasserman (Heyday Books)

"In this boisterous debut essay collection, Wasserman, the publisher of Heyday Books, discusses his literary friendships, lefty politics, and opinions on publishing’s technological shifts...Erudite yet chatty, this gossipy grab bag of reminiscences will be catnip for book lovers." - Publishers Weekly

Us Fools by Nora Lange (Two Dollar Radio)

"Great American Novels are still being published in 2024 and here is one of them. “Us Fools” could have issued only from a small press. If it had been processed and extruded by one of the “Big Five” publishers, the novel would have been minimized into a low-fat tale of sisterhood or the Midwest or regeneration or class or education instead of a banquet including everything listed above." - New York Times

Yours, Befana by Barbara Cuoghi, Translated by Genni Gunn (Greystone Kids)

“[With] shimmering images… a charming vintage cinematic feel….Intriguing, a refreshingly original Yuletide tale." - Kirkus Reviews

Pride and Preston Lin by Christina Hwang Dudley (Third State Books)

One of Booklist's Top Ten Romances of 2024

Babette's Bread by Babette Kourelos (Touchwood Editions)

"Interspersed throughout the recipes (pizza dough! koulouri! challah!) are charming anecdotes about Babette's childhood and path from being a practicing lawyer to a successful baker." - Town & Country

Brothers and Ghosts by Khuê Pham (Scribe Publications)

“Brothers and Ghosts examines the experience of one southern Vietnamese family during the Vietnam War, and its long aftermath…Inspired by her own family, journalist Khuê Phạm tells a wrenching story of family, war, and memory.” - NPR Review

Beirut by Barrack Zailaa Rima, Edited and translated by Carla Calargé and Alexandra Gueydan-Turek (Invisible Publishing)

"[Zailaa Rima's] restless blend of the personal and the political thrums with urgency. Readers will have a tough time putting this one down." - Publishers Weekly