The Intimates is a brilliant and deeply moving first novel about the varieties of romance. Spanning years and continents, beginnings and endings, it is about two gifted and striving people who discover themselves in the reflection they see in each other, and how their affinity anchors them at critical points in their lives.

“Sassone has a keen understanding of the professional indignities and romantic frustrations of the young and well educated.” —The New Yorker

The most beguiling and distinctive debut novel of the season: the Battle of Waterloo… as told by a rabbit. The Sage of Waterloo is a playful retelling of a key turning point in human history, full of vivid insights about Napoleon, Wellington, and the battle itself—and a slyly profound reflection on our place in the world.

"Part historical chronicle, part adventure story, Francombe’s unconventional debut hops along in crowd-pleasing fashion." ―Shelf Awareness

Struggling grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard—kind of—in this “cunningly witty, frolicsome, time-warping bildungsroman” (Los Angeles Times).

“Utterly delicious, original, witty, hilarious and brilliant. Shakespeare in Love on magic mushrooms.” —Christopher Buckley, New York Times-bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking

One of Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Books of the Year

Christian Kracht's Imperium uses the outlandish details of August Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. Playing with the tropes of classic adventure tales like Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe, Kracht's novel, an international bestseller, is funny, bizarre, shocking, and poignant—sometimes all on the same page.

“[A] strange, engrossing tale, by turns slapstick, philosophical, and suspenseful.” —Publishers Weekly

Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just details of hotels around the globe—they tell his life story. But when Reginald disappears, we are left with the fragments of a life which writer Rick Moody must make sense of. An inventive blurring of the lines between the real and the fabricated, Hotels of North America demonstrates Moody's masterly ability to push the bounds of the novel.

"In this entertaining critique of contemporary culture, written with vibrancy and wit, Moody not only provides a nuanced portrait of an Everyman but also deploys his playful yet artful approach to language." —Booklist

Spur Award–winning author

Texas Sunrise brings together two of Elmer Kelton’s acclaimed novels to tell the story of the Texas Revolution as experienced by brothers Thomas and Joshua Buckalew of Tennessee.

“As with all of Kelton’s westerns, characters are colorful and well drawn, the action is fast and bloody, and the plotting carefully thought out, making this another supercharged yarn.” —Publishers Weekly

A Boston psychiatrist must confront her own inner demons in a novel that “peels away the layers of what can be known and what can be admitted” (Stuart Archer Cohen, author of The Army of the Republic).

"You won’t want any interruptions as you read this dark tale of one psychiatrist’s attempt at long-term denial.” —Natalie Danford, author of Inheritance

Twenty-six-year-old Rachel Monroe has spent her whole life trying to keep a very unusual secret: she can make wishes come true. And sometimes the consequences are disastrous. So when Rachel accidentally grants an outlandish wish for the first time in years, she decides it’s time to leave her hometown—and her past—behind for good.

“This is a lovely, lark of a novel filled with imagination and energy." —Ann Garvin, author of The Dog Year

Stylishly inventive, H. S. Cross has crafted an imaginative, ritualistic world of men and boys narrowly confined by tradition and authority. Wilberforce is an indelible portrait of a young man caught between lust and cruelty, grief and God, frustrated love and abject longing.

“Cross writes with a beautiful precision.... [and] a master’s ear for the perfect phrase.” ―The New York Journal of Books