New and Forthcoming Fiction

SS-GB

by Len Deighton; read by James Lailey

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal. Learn More

The Best That You Can Do

by Amina Gautier; read by LaNecia Edmonds

Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections. Learn More

Goldenseal

by Maria Hummel; read by Hillary Huber

A Gentleman in Moscow meets My Brilliant Friend in this novel of two estranged friends who reunite to confront each other and the devastating betrayal that tore them apart. Learn More

The Box

by Mandy Suzanne Wong; read by Michelle H. Lee and Curtis Michael Holland

A stylistically dazzling novel about objects, people, and the forces and seams between them. Learn More

Kennedy 35

by Charles Cumming; read by Elliot Fitzpatrick

Charles Cumming once again straddles two timelines to create a high-tension thriller in this latest Lachlan Kite novel. Learn More

Ghost Town

by Kevin Chen; translated by Darryl Sterk; read by Nicky Endres

Told in a myriad of voices, both living and dead, and moving through time with deceptive ease, Kevin Chen's Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures. Learn More

Dialogue with a Somnambulist

by Chloe Aridjis; read by Stacy Gonzalez

Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers listeners her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy. Learn More

Trondheim

by Cormac James; read by Kim Bretton

A son's collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness. Learn More

In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel

by Genevieve Plunkett; read by Raquel Beattie

A young mother finds herself caught between a love affair and the wrath of her husband, who will do anything to put an end to it—even use his wife's bipolar diagnosis against her. Learn More

From From

by Monica Youn; read by Monica Youn

A must-listen collection by Monica Youn, "one of the most consistently innovative poets working today" (NPR). Learn More

The Basic Eight

by Daniel Handler; read by Ann Marie Gideon

A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV talk shows. A first novel. Learn More

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023

edited by Amor Towles and Otto Penzler

Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T. C. Boyle. Learn More

The Premonition

by Banana Yoshimoto; read by Kathleen Li

Indie Next List

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth. Learn More