Peak Picks

We’re adding fourteen new Peak Picks in October! In fiction, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin in the new standalone novel The City in Glass;  legendary storyteller Alan Moore introduces the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder, magic, and madness in post-WWII… Continue reading

We’re adding fourteen new titles to Peak Picks over the next several weeks! In fiction, In fiction, Danzy Senza delivers a brilliant dark comedy with Colored Television, about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex; from Rachel Kushner comes Creation Lake, about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an… Continue reading

We are adding ten titles to Peak Picks in May! In fiction, Miranda July returns with an irreverently sexy, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life in All Fours; Diane Richards debuts with a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer in the… Continue reading

Ten new titles are joining Peak Picks in April – plus a bonus March pick! In nonfiction, novelist Amy Tan presents a gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight with beautiful, original sketches by the author in The Backyard Bird Chronicles; Death doula Alua Arthur reframes… Continue reading

Eleven books are joining Peak Picks in March! In fiction, Sierra Greer examines intimacy, power, autonomy, and control in her debut about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner in Annie Bot; Justinian Huang follows two men whose love transcends time, going from 4 BCE to the present-day China, in the romantasy… Continue reading

Check out the ten books we’re adding to Peak Picks in February! In fiction, dozens of authors – including Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston, Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng – are the forces behind individual tenants in a New York City apartment building during the height of the COVID lockdown in Fourteen Days; Hisashi Kashiwai follows… Continue reading

We’re starting the new year off with a bang, and twelve new Peak Picks! Check out these books coming your way in January 2024. In fiction, Susan Muaddi Darraj gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Behind You is the Sea; Karl Marlantes transports readers to Cold War Finland where… Continue reading

Twelve new books are joining Peak Picks in October! FICTION. Amanda Peters debuts with the tale of a a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl who disappears from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a fifty year mystery that will haunt the survivors and unravel a family in The Berry Pickers; Bryan Washington (Lot, Memorial) returns with a… Continue reading

Check out the ten new books joining Peak Picks in September! In fiction, Canadian Mohawk author Alicia Elliott follows a young Indigenous woman whose failure to connect –  with her infant daughter and her new posh neighbors – has horrifying consequences in And Then She Fell; Kim Coleman Foote merges fact and fiction in her… Continue reading

Eight books are joining Peak Picks in July! In fiction, Colson Whitehead’s follow up to Harlem Shuffle finds furniture store owner Ray Carney dragged back into the criminal underworld in Crook Manifesto; portrait artist Sadie Montgomery’s onset of face blindness following a medical procedure gone awry gets in the way of a budding relationship in… Continue reading

Ten books are joining Peak Picks in June! In fiction, the first Black sheriff of a Small southern town battles racism while on the hunt for a serial killer in S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed; the first novel from Roxane Gay Books follows two queer Nigerian students amid the passage of new anti-gay laws… Continue reading