The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, 11-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.

Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

Moving from the predigital 1980s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, a novel of friendship, art and ambition follows three lifelong friends as they strive for meaningful lives in a world that turned out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other’s curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.

How to End of Love Story by Yulin Kuang

A best-selling author with writer’s block heads to L.A. for the film adaptation of her book where she must collaborate with a screenwriter who was involved in the tragic accident that bound them together 13 years prior.

Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

Grace Adams, a once-amazing woman who is now 45, stalled, perimenopausal and losing it, leaves her car in the middle of traffic and sets out to win back her estranged teen daughter on her 16th birthday.

Redwood Court by DéLana R. A. Dameron

Mika Tabor, the baby of the family, learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her hardworking parents, her older sister, her retired grandparents and the community on Redwood Court, who are committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.