Top New Release Books for Creatives October 2026

Losing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In Cloud Runner, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: “Reason has no home in this hour,” she writes. Despite a devasting loss, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound revelations can appear in our darkest hours: “I now know why we construct ceremonial epics of mystery and beauty, / Of enemy and failure: it is so we can pick up our burdens / And go on.”

Harjo’s magical poems are known for weaving myth, song, and spirit. In this searing volume, her poems become essential witnesses to history, especially in our current era of compounded loss: mass shootings, missing and murdered Native women, climate disaster, and political violence. Cloud Runner explores how all grief may be connected; it is a testament to poetry’s power to speak what is unspeakable, to touch what the mind cannot carry.

From Cloud Runner:

“I am Cloud Runner, you whispered, as I rinsed dishes and looked

out the window, the sun flaring dusky gold through our story. I

dried my hands and went outside to read the clouds.

 

Remember me in my children and their children, you sang.

Remember me in poetry.

Remember me when it rains, when the plants rise up in

green to drink.

Remember me in butterflies.

 

And then, you were gone.”

An extraordinary work of poetry, essay, and artwork by Layli Long Soldier, author of the award-winning WHEREAS

In We, Layli Long Soldier examines what it means to be in community, to be in relation with family, nation, history, and language. We is the first-person plural, the pronoun of inclusion in English. It is also Wé, the Lakota word meaning “blood”–what is shared and what is shed.

In this ingenious and insightful arrangement of poems, lyric essays, and her own visual artworks presented in full color, Long Soldier creates unique spaces of collaboration, mentorship, and shared knowledge. The 184 X’s signed to a broken treaty, the fringes of a winged dress braided in honor of children lost to Indian boarding schools, and intricate Lakota star quilts become shapes and patterns that convey collective kinship, memory, and grievance. “From this day forward,” Long Soldier writes, “I declare a war of language.”

We is a visionary new collection by a writer and artist whose unfolding works are among the most groundbreaking of our time.

In Lion, Tina Chang mines personal and collective memory to explore safety and danger, visibility and invisibility as an Asian American woman. Throughout the collection, Chang responds to multi-hyphenate women artists, including Haena Yoo, H?ng-Ân Truong, Astria Suparak, and a collective whose work paid tribute to the life of Christina Yuna Lee, a young woman who was killed during the height of anti-Asian hate crimes. Responding to art across various media–text, illustration, painting, video, and sculpture–Lion sparks cross-disciplinary dialogue on Asian American perspectives, surveillance, and the myth of the model minority.

As the aftermath of the pandemic is examined, so too are the structures of bias, racism, and violence that continue. The collection’s title explores the word’s cultural history, composite Chinese iconography, and lion-centered explorations of strength and mastery. Lion traverses the closeness and distance between the racialized self the world views and the perceived self who endures and survives.

From “Text: ”

It was music when the lion walked into my home.

I thought I felt it lick my palm. I bent low to the ground,

to watch it craving though I was starving too.

The tongue touches a valley inside the mouth,

only wounding can reach. The body of a gazelle

runs wildly inside my knotted heart. The beast

struggles within, bones lit with grief, a rush

of pursuit, sings me into the skin of the living.

Winner of the 2025 Backwaters Prize in Poetry

The word “hum” in Urdu can mean both “we” and “I.” In English, it’s a gesture of sound–a vibration. Sanam Sheriff’s HUM is a trans call to the beauty of attempt rather than the clarity of arrival. This book seeks as the pilgrim seeks, wandering from a plural sense of self with a lyric attunement to the wound’s power.

Following a queer, trans, Muslim speaker who grew up in southern India and migrated to the United States, Sheriff’s debut collection invites us to listen: to how yearning for a country blurs with yearning for a beloved; to how exile, for queer and trans people, is where the body itself becomes a place of dignity and prayer.

Enriched by Urdu lyric traditions of love, and love mourned, HUM raises the queer erotic to the heavens, even as the grief of separation lingers as paradise lost. Here, Sheriff weaves together the two most potent threads of human life: pain and love, strummed until they sing.

An inspiring and eminently useful guide to the art of letter writing, including prompts and exercises to help deepen our most important connections and heal old wounds, by a beloved “letter midwife.”“A pragmatic, empathetic, urgent call to stop avoiding the hardest conversations and start enjoying the world beyond hurt and regret . . . A true service to readers.”–Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me More and The Middle Place

We all have “unfinished business” thank-you notes we meant to write, goodbyes we never spoke, apologies we haven’t managed to give. Here to help us put those words on paper, letter midwife Frish Brandt provides singular guidance on how to write the five fundamental missives that underscore the meaning of our lives: Thank you, I’m sorry, I miss you, I love you, and Goodbye.

With real-world examples from her experience of teaching in universities, workshops, and individual sessions around the country, Brandt weaves practical writing prompts with gentle reflections on grief, connection, forgiveness, and closure, offering the tools–and the courage–to help you write what you have long held inside. At once an invitation, a guidebook, and an ode to the power of the written word, Unfinished Business will help deepen your most important connections and heal old wounds. It is a book to read, to write alongside, and to return to again and again.

In this revised and updated paperback edition, a veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.“Compelling.” –Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal

In the age of artificial intelligence, generating an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime writing teacher John Warner: not much.

More Than Words argues that generative AI tools like ChatGPT not only can kill the student essay but should, since these assignments don’t challenge students to do the real work of writing. To Warner, writing is thinking–discovering your ideas while trying to capture them on a page–and feeling–grappling with what it fundamentally means to be human.

More Than Words calls for us to use AI as an opportunity to reckon with our relationship with writing. Newly updated with practical resources for teachers and students, this is the essential book for anyone writing in the age of AI.

In this wide-ranging and characteristically fearless exchange, Margaret Atwood sits down in Athens with poet and philosopher Haris Vlavianos to reflect on myth, politics, mortality, and the creative imagination. From Homer to The Handmaid’s Tale, from Tiresias to Trump, their conversation traces the long arc between ancient story and present crisis — how power is told, retold, and resisted. With sardonic humour and precision, Atwood revisits her own work through the eyes of myth: Penelope and her maids, sirens and shapeshifters, prophets and tyrants. Each theme turns back to a single question: what stories survive, and what do we bring back from the descent?

As the dialogue unfolds, Atwood speaks with unusual intimacy about the practice of writing — its rituals and terrors, its moral weight, its comic absurdities. She describes the writer’s task as a perilous journey into darkness, a “negotiation with the dead,” from which one hopes to emerge carrying light. Vlavianos meets her as equal and foil: philosopher, poet, and guide through the classical imagination. The result is both public conversation and private meditation — a spirited encounter between two minds steeped in literature and alive to the political urgencies of our time.

At once erudite and mischievous, The Stories We Bring Back reveals Atwood at her most lucid and unguarded. Part mythological symposium, part masterclass, part political reckoning, it is a book about the endurance of art and the stubborn hope that every act of storytelling — even in an age of noise and tyranny — remains, as Atwood insists, “an act of optimism.”

A 2026 Editor’s Choice by NewPages

Drawing from more than 30 years of creative writing teaching experience, Suzanne Roberts offers down-to-earth, witty, and wise straight talk about writing and the writing life, accessible craft discussions, and thought-provoking twenty-minute genre-crossing writing prompts. This multi-genre approach is arranged by theme, including memory, family and friends, writing the body, love and lust, death and grief, nature and the environment, stories of shame, and magic and myth, along with discussions of revision and editing, building writing community, and publishing. The chapters offer a short discussion of each theme, friendly pep talks, accessible craft tips, a selection of thirty-five poems, stories, and essays from a diverse array of contemporary writers, and, of course, the writing prompts.

Featured authors include Camille T. Dungy, Carolyn Forché, Gina Frangello, Linda LeGarde Grover, Lisa Lee Herrick, Major Jackson, Rebecca Makkai, Eva Saulitis, Patricia Smith, Stacey Waite, Lidia Yuknavitch, among many others, with writing advice of their own. 52 Writing Prompts will encourage and motivate both aspiring and established writers.

A 30-day program to unlock your creative potential and write with confidence from the Spirit within

Struggling with writer’s block or paralyzing self-doubt? The Writer’s Miracle Method offers a powerful spiritual approach to conquering the fears that hold writers back. Rooted in the teachings of A Course in Miracles, this 30-day program helps writers shift from self-criticism to creative flow, building habits that empower you to write with confidence, clarity, and joy.

Designed for writers at any stage, Debra Engle’s method combines practical exercises, guided meditations, and mindset shifts to help you break through mental barriers and unleash your creative potential. With more than four decades of experience in publishing and spiritual mentorship, Engle has crafted a proven path to help you overcome fear, embrace your true voice, and thrive as a writer.

This unique collection of typewritten portraits is a stunning visual tribute to some of the world’s most iconic contributors to literature, told in ink, one keystroke at a time.James Cook is a young artist who creates portraits–but not with brushes or pencils. Instead, he uses a typewriter. Each drawing is meticulously hand-typed, keystroke-by-keystroke, from thousands of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.

Specially commissioned for this book are 50 of Cook’s astounding portraits of beloved authors, poets, and playwrights–including Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Arundhati Roy, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf. Many of his portraits conceal a typewritten message, such as the names of the author’s most significant works, in addition to hidden facts and insightful reflections for viewers to discover.

Also included are mini biographies of each author, a description of the typewriters used for each portrait and why, and a time-lapse sequence showing how Cook creates a portrait.

This 30th anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.

If you want to know how to teach poetry–in a university, a high school, at a nature preserve, in a hospital, or in your living room–read this book.

June Jordan’s Poetry for the People details how to build a grassroots poetry program through a collection of strategies, sample student work, course descriptions, and a step-by-step guide to organizing and promoting readings, alongside original writing from Adrienne Rich, Joy Harjo, Ntozake Shange, and Cornelius Eady.

Now with a guide to teaching ethically in the digital age, this easy-to-use, timely reference is perfect for teachers of poetry at any level and in any group setting.

Reimagine your house (and your life) using tips from internet feng shui expert Cliff Tan. If you’re not happy with your home – fix it with feng shui! How you live affects your mood and your life, and in Feng Shui Fix It! Cliff shows how you can use his easy-to-follow tips and tricks to clear the clutter, place furniture in your rooms, and add color and decor to achieve your ideal living environment. The ancient practice of feng shui is full of practical advice to improve your space and Cliff explains the 100 most important feng shui beliefs about your home, what they mean for our modern context, and how you can fix any faux pas.

Cliff has helped millions of people across the world fix their homes through his social media videos and his one-on-one client meetings – and now he’s bringing the most-asked questions and answers together here, alongside his own drawings explaining each concept. Cliff’s aim is simple: he wants you to feel happy to be home the moment you step foot inside your front door.

If you’ve ever wondered:

• Where to place your bed for the best night’s sleep
• How to fit your work desk into your house
• How to make your entranceway feel more welcoming
• How to create a money corner
• How to make your bedroom ready for a partner
• What to do if your living room faces a cemetery
• Why it feels uncomfortable to have a bathroom above your bedroom

Cliff will answer your queries and more, along with explaining the principles of feng shui. Now there is no excuse not to fix it and live a better life.

‘There are reasons behind each feng shui rule. Indeed, moving furniture around can actually change your life – as long as you understand how and why’ – Cliff

A provocative call for women to reclaim the intuition, mystery, and transcendence that modern life has trained us to dismiss–from the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety“Season of the Witch is a bridge between the scientific and the mystical, leading us to embrace the magic that surrounds us. This book will start a movement.”–Laura Lynne Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Signs

Witch: /wiCH/ noun: Any woman who has reclaimed the intuitive, mystical, and embodied ways of knowing that our culture tries to shame and suppressWe are caught in a crisis of disconnection. The cost of this shows up everywhere: in our bodies, which cry out with digestive issues and chronic conditions; in our relationships, where we’ve lost the communities that once held us; and in our day-to-day, where we feel rudderless, anxious, and incapable of navigating our lives without outsourced advice.For years, Yale and Columbia-trained psychiatrist Ellen Vora has taken a holistic approach to helping her patients navigate these challenges. But when she herself experienced a shattering loss, she realized that true healing would require what her training had taught her to dismiss.According to Vora, every woman possesses a natural connection to magic, but our culture teaches us to disavow it. From a young age, we understand the assignment–we learn to perform our rational, linear selves and quietly suppress our mystical side. In Season of the Witch, Vora names these forces and reveals the five practices that can help us reclaim the full spectrum of our intelligence: embodiment, presence, valuing the yin, being open to mystery, and serving the collective.By engaging with these practices, we become witches: women who walk through the world with a quiet conviction, anchored in our own knowing, trusting that we are whole unto ourselves–women fully alive to mystery. This is what true witchiness looks like: not an escape from reality, but a deeper way of being in it.

You’ve heard all about the ‘brilliant men’ of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow?

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece contains profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers, scandalous sisters and damsels, that quite frankly, caused others A LOT of stress in the ancient world.

With the ever-growing popularity of mythological retellings, Lizzy Tiffin has written THE guide to all of the baddies of ancient Greece. This book stands as a reminder that us women really have been bad – in the best way possible – from the start.

Written with humour and sass, Lizzy profiles the women in Greek myth and legend covering: mortals, goddesses, titans, nymphs (you name it, she’s done it). Here you’ll find the weird and wonderful escapades of the women we’re often lead to believe were minor characters.

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece is an accessible, intelligent, hilarious (sometimes spicy) guide to the women we love and know – Athena, Medusa, Aphrodite – and also those we may not, like Polyphonte, who was cursed with burning hot lust for a wild bear … imagine!

So dive into the stories you thought you knew with Bad Girls of Ancient Greece as your illuminating guide…

This classically styled illuminated manuscript combines fine art with fun facts about flowers from around the globe. The Illuminated Book of Blooms is a stunning, one-of-a-kind celebration of the world’s flowers. Written and illustrated by award-winning painter Robin Crofut-Brittingham, it features her lush, large-scale paintings of iconic blooms from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Europe. She presents flowers together–grouping them by geography and family, and in special categories like medicinal, poisonous, and nocturnal–and delights in exploring their cultural and mythological significance.

Each plant also receives an individual spotlight, with curious facts that will surprise new and seasoned flower lovers alike. In these lush pages, you’ll discover elegantly painted blooms from across the globe in a unique botanical adventure.

Dear Reader, You are invited to rediscover the joy of sending thoughtful, handmade post with author and memory-keeper Martina Calvi. Whether you’re new to snail mail or already love writing letters, collecting beautiful stationery and creating meaningful keepsakes, The Art of Snail Mail is your inspiring guide to slowing down, getting creative and connecting with the people you care about through the art of handwritten correspondence.

Martina shares everything you need to begin your snail mail journey:

• The foundations: including the ritual of letter writing, designing your own signature and making handmade envelopes and wax seals.
• 20 projects for snail mail, paper craft and mail art.
• Creative ideas including sticker letters, embroidered postcards, care packages, secret message mail and miniature letters.
• Step-by-step techniques to personalize every letter and craft every individual detail.
• Inspiration to embrace the beauty of analog creativity by celebrating everyday moments and strengthening friendships.
• Advice on how to find pen pals, and start a snail mail club.

Perfect for stationery lovers, scrapbookers, paper crafters, memory collectors and anyone looking for a more thoughtful way to stay connected, The Art of Snail Mail will inspire you to create heartfelt post, celebrate life’s little moments and find the lasting joy of sending something truly personal. Snail mail, forever.

A Handful of Steps for Breathtaking Results

Start your artistic journey with this ultimate beginner’s guide to watercolor painting–brought to life in just 5 stress-free steps! Led by watercolorist Michelle Beaudrot, this lovely collection is designed for every type of artist, whether you have never picked up a brush or are looking for new inspiration. Michelle’s assuring, instructive voice invites you to leave perfection behind and enjoy the process as she breaks her painting tutorials down into accessible steps to ignite your artistic spark and find a place of calm.

Transform everyday moments into something magical with these inspiring watercolor projects:

• Summer Night with Fireflies
• Paintbrushes in a Glass Jar
• Butterfly on a Flower
• Fireplace Warmth
• Bookshelf with a Plant
• Birch Trees and Winter Sky
• Flowy Cottage Roses
• Sunflower Horizon

With encouraging instruction and endless opportunities to create, this comprehensive collection is the key to building your watercolor confidence.

Bring joy into your life and your wardrobe with this essential guide to wearing color.Katie Kortman is here to tell you everything you need to know about adding more color to your wardrobe, from the power colors can have to boost your mood to finding your most flattering shades.

In this practical, easy-to-use guide, you’ll learn how to determine your ‘season’, providing you with your very own personal color palette and helping you to create a wardrobe that gives you a hit of happiness every day. Katie explains how to combine your best colors, from creating monochrome looks to pairing complementary colors and wearing patterns. There’s also an entire chapter on simple budget-busting techniques for adding color to pieces already hanging in your closet. And for those days when you just want to forget about the rules, Katie gives tips on ways to wear those colors that might fall outside your season, but you just can’t live without.

Bursting with color, each section is illustrated with helpful color wheels, swatches and charts, alongside stunning outfits for inspiration.

From the author of Personal Color comes a first-of-its-kind card deck for finding your color season and identifying the best shades to wear–all from the comfort of your own home!

So much goes into figuring out your color season–the shades that best harmonize with your unique skin tone, hair, and eye color. But how do you then put it into practice?

With a comprehensive guide and hundreds of color swatches to determine your best shades, The Personal Color Deck makes it easy to find the colors that make your natural beauty shine. The booklet guides you through the process and helps you understand the underlying principles so that you can feel your best every time you get dressed.

Simply compare the various shades in the 48 large swatches to determine your season and subtype. Then dive into the 200 pocket-sized swatches to broaden your “color horizon” and build out a full palette for your closet. And don’t forget to take a few favorites along for comparison when you go shopping! You can slip them into a pocket or a purse, and they’re laminated for easy cleaning.

No need to wait for someone to tell you what looks best. With this deck at your side, you can be confident that you’re always choosing colors that make you look and feel incredible.

Thrust into the spotlight too young, former Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano–beloved for Even Stevens, Kim Possible, and Cadet Kelly–seemed to have everything and lost more than anyone knew. In this raw and inspiring celebrity memoir, she reveals what childhood fame cost her, the fantasies she had to unlearn, and the ongoing story of finding her way back to herself. For a generation of kids, former Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano was their TV big sister. At her peak, she was sixteen years old and starring across the Disney Channel universe in Even Stevens, Kim Possible, and the original movie Cadet Kelly. She was Disney’s smart, serious girl next door–polished, dependable, and seemingly in control.

Off camera, she was unraveling.

Pushed into show business as a child, Christy learned early that achievement was the price of love. From indie movie gigs and Broadway performances in New York to television shoots in Hollywood, Christy battled bullying, exploitation, financial instability, and the crushing pressure to appear perfect. Desperate to please, she carried that hunger for approval into adulthood–dating controlling men, partying to fit in, spiraling into addiction, and handing thousands to a predatory psychic who promised answers.

Rock bottom came in an FBI office.

What followed was not a fairy-tale rescue, but a hard-won reckoning: Christy pulling her life back together, questioning the script she’d been handed, reparenting herself, and becoming not the princess she was told to play, but a woman learning how to save her own life.

Raw and impossible to put down, Once Upon a Trainwreck is more than a celebrity memoir. It is an inspiring account of childhood fame, addiction, motherhood, identity, breaking cycles, rewriting the ending, and choosing your own life. Punctuated by letters from Christy to her two young daughters, this is a powerful testament to resilience, accountability, and the courage to claim your own story.

Now I saw that I was more than who I thought I was–more than who I had been told I was. There wasn’t anything the diagnosis didn’t touch. In time, even how I thought about being a writer changed.

Steve Edwards was diagnosed with autism in his mid-30s, altering his relationship to writing and family. He discovered what he had always known but never said: His compulsion to create was more than just a pursuit of self-expression. Faced with a mix of belief and disbelief from those who knew him, and full of questions himself, he committed to a new sense of wonder and pursuit of revelation.

Rare Good offers insights into Edwards’s experience of the awe that only art, disability, and loved ones can bring. Raising a disabled child and delving into acknowledging his own mindedness, he explores the struggles of communicating and finding care, the joy of gathering as community, and the astonishing gifts that art and education offer us, especially when we acknowledge the contributions of disabled artists past and present. Drawing on times of heartbreak transformed into determination, Edwards describes his ongoing desire to find a way together. A singular work of lyric nonfiction, Rare Good is a reminder and balm for all who might feel different.

If Tennessee Rhodes and I were the last two people on earth, sorry, humanity would be doomed.

He’s obnoxious. He pretends he’s funny. He takes great pains to get under my skin. And since his sister is my best friend, one of the women my great-aunt and I invited to live with us after she went viral, he’s around far more than I’d like.

Now, for instance. Now, Ten’s parked on my couch, in his boxers, eating Oreos in a bowl of milk like they’re cereal, telling me he’s gone viral and needs me to hide him too.

Less than two weeks before we reopen the winery where my found family and I live. The opening that we need to go well because we’re facing foreclosure if it doesn’t.

The worst part? With those big puppy dog eyes and his panty-melting smile that he uses to his advantage, he’s convinced my great-aunt he needs to stay as her personal assistant.

Which means it’s up to me to convince him to leave on his own. Keep him from causing trouble and wrecking the grand opening.

Easier said than done when I find out the rest of his story though.

You’d think the experience of being my unpredictable great-aunt’s caretaker the past five years would’ve prepared me for Tennessee’s antics. Or that the time I’ve spent fighting internet trolls for sport the past five years would’ve made me smart enough to not fall for his charms.

But I apparently don’t know myself as well as I think I do.

Nor is Tennessee the man I think he is either. And that’s bad. Worse than bad.

Because when I find out his secret-the real reason he needs to lay low here-my heart will be at just as much risk as the winery’s reopening.

Bring on the holiday cheer in this delightful collection of three feel-good novellas from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Night We Met–with bonus recipes and full-page illustrations, perfect for gifting! The limited, one-time printing of the deluxe edition will have designed edges and color endpapers. Tis the season to fall in love!

Anna thought only the food would be a disaster at her Christmas dinner–until her high school ex shows up and they quickly have to hatch a fake-dating scheme to save face with their families. For Matty, the idea of sitting in a diner all day dressed as a zombie Santa after losing a bet has zero appeal. But his cute and funny server might just make him change his mind. And finally, will Lauren be able to convince her best friend that getting married after a three-day relationship is absolutely ridiculous? Or will the town called Little Christmas pull her in with its happily-ever-after magic once she meets the best man?

Within these stories, you’ll find:

• The worst Christmas dinner imaginable
• A granny determined to dismantle the patriarchy
• Matching Christmas sweaters (by accident!)
• A Mission Impossible-style cat rescue (with a saxophone)
• Mouthwatering recipes from Abby for dishes like Disco Pancakes
• Full-page illustrations throughout

Because this year, you deserve the perfect holiday gift.

From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief–The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and into a larger world that will upend their connection and everything they thought they understood about their own place within it.

At 27, Pella’s life looks settled: she’s a recent college grad, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella’s past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiraling toward an unplanned future in New York City. Meanwhile, back at Westish College, 21-year-old Irma’s involvement with a politically charged prank–one that has roiled both the campus and the world beyond–threatens to derail her brilliant future. As Irma and Pella cycle through possibilities and identities, both navigate the heights and depths of passion and ambition, and the incalculable wages of love and loss.

In stunning scenes and spectacular characters–each drawn with an almost superhuman vividness and humanity–Chad Harbach captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in.

Energetic, funny, and deeply human, this much-anticipated follow-up to The Art of Fielding confirms Chad Harbach as one of the most accomplished and deep-seeing writers of our time.

New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood’s intoxicating paranormal romance novella duology–together for the first time in print and ebook! Read the captivating dark academia romance in Bound, then flip your book over to unleash the dangers of forbidden love in Unbound.

Bound: A reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets are bound by an arcane text–in more ways than one. Veronica “Vero” Mercer grew up with grifters for parents, and she knows her way around a con. When grad school bills pile up and her friends are in trouble, she turns her art history skills into a forgery side hustle.It’s supposed to be a short term deal, but her work draws the attention of Dr. Viktor Ashworth, a reserved, very British professor. Instead of turning her in, Ashworth kidnaps her–politely–and makes an unusual offer: forge a mysterious ancient manuscript for him.Soon Vero finds herself spending long nights with Viktor, bent over rare vellum samples and obscure inks. But as the con grows riskier, Vero has to wonder: what does Viktor really want, and why can’t she stay away?Unbound: A five-thousand-year-old woman who has outlived empires. A doctor who has spent his life fighting death. They fates collide in a blood game of vengeance.Lilit of Nineveh has spent millennia in control. As a powerful revenant, she enforces one rule above all: protect mortals. Disciplined and focused, she has never made the same mistake twice, and she has learned that attachments can only lead to ruin.Enter Roman Martin. An overworked and relentlessly kind ER physician, he is the one mortal Lilit cannot quit. Any relationship between them is against everything Lilit has fought for. Still, she keeps coming back to him.

Until someone starts hunting Lilit, and Roman is caught in the crossfire. When everything comes crashing down, Lilit must choose between the world she has sworn to protect and the man she was never meant to love.

A mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. Public Access Afterworld is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

“Beautiful, funny, and scathing … I stayed up all night binge-reading.”–SenLinYu
“Dazzling and politically acute, Schoenbrun’s debut announces a major literary voice.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A dazzling story …  a great American novel.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Most Anticipated Books – One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: The New York Times Book Review Podcast, The Boston Globe, Lit Hub, The Chicago Review of Books, The Bookseller, Reactor, Book Riot, Crime Reads, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Debutiful

Find the receiver. Make it real.

At 5:35 p.m. on September 3, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray “Can You Say Sunshine” Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger.

On June 12, 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin’s basement to watch TV’s analog-to-digital transition. But in the static that follows, Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts from a pirate TV network called Public Access Afterworld, and their lives are changed forever.

Seventeen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill’s bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But then a young streamer begins to crop up in her feed calling out to Public Access Afterworld.

But what is Public Access Afterworld?

Spanning decades and realities, with an unforgettable ensemble of outcasts and nerds–especially the messy but wholly relatable Bethany, who must overcome paranoia and self-doubt to transform into a hero of our times–Public Access Afterworld will have you reading through the night and rooting for its characters to survive. A mesmerizing mash-up of speculative fiction, horror, and conspiracy, it marks the arrival of a major new force in contemporary fiction by a groundbreaking filmmaker who’s been compared to David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson.

A steamy sapphic romance about music, second chances, and falling for the one person you shouldn’t–your new bandmate.Ever since she can remember, Florence Gibson has had one goal: to tour the world as a musician, and outshine her absentee rockstar father. When her all-women, all-queer rock band Scorpio Season gets booked as the opening act for her idol’s European tour, Florence can’t believe their luck. There is only one problem: the band needs a drummer.

Luca Walsh has no idea where she’s going. Ever since she dropped out of university, her days have been a blur of shifts at the coffee shop, trying to remember if she took her ADHD medication, and lying in bed questioning her existence. When she stumbles upon a flyer searching for drummers in the area, she jumps at the chance to have a distraction.

Their first band meeting devolves into chaos when Florence realizes that Luca isn’t any stranger–she’s the woman Florence went home with not even twenty-four-hours earlier to have a reckless, mind-blowing, life-altering one-night-stand. But the show must go on. Through four weeks of performing together, hour-long car rides across Europe, and nights sharing beds in seedy hotel rooms, they try to hide their growing attraction–for the sake of the band that’s starting to feel more like a family, and all the dreams that suddenly seem within reach. As their music rises in the charts, so does the tension between them. With every new song feeling more like an emotional confession, how long can they keep their distance?

She cast a love spell to summon her soulmate. The universe sent her worst enemy instead.

Nova Wilde is a TikTok influencer, dripping in glitter and bravado, posting viral videos and thirst traps for Gen Z witches. But off-camera, she’s longing for the one thing she can’t seem to conjure: someone who stays. On a whim, she performs a sex-magick ritual…and accidentally summons the one woman who knows exactly how to get under her skin.

Dr. Delphine Desrosiers is everything Nova can’t stand. Serious. Controlled. Annoyingly unreadable. She’s an ice-queen academic with impeccable mystical credentials and a long history of throwing shade at Nova.

Their heated rivalry is the tea of WitchTok. Their searing attraction is the bane of their existence. When the signs begin stacking up, the two have to consider the unthinkable: that the universe knows what it’s doing.

This Spells Forever is a witty and whimsical enemies-to-lovers romance about power, performance, and the terrifying possibility of being truly chosen.