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* The Border between Us. By Rudy Ruiz. Sept. 2024. 28op. Blackstone, $27.99 (9798212545266). Ruiz (Valley of Shadows, 2022) is back with a flawed yet plucky hero in this realistic [...]

Pink Slime. By Fernanda Trias. Tr. by Heather Cleary. July 2024. 240p. Scribner, $24 (9781668049778); e-book (9781668049792). Uruguayan author Trias presents a bleak dystopian novel narrated by an unnamed woman […]

Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow. By Damilare Kuku. July 2024. 272p. HarperVia, $27.99 (9780063354494); e-book (9780063354517). Kuku's first novel, following her story collection, Nearly All the Men in Lagos are […]

Say Hello to My Little Friend. By Jennine Capo Crucet. Mar. 2024. 304p. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (9781668023327). Crucet follows her essay collection, My Time among the Whites (2019), with [...]

* Las indignas. By Agustina Bazterrica. 2023. 192p. Alfaguara, paper, $19.95 (9798890980137). Las Indignas (The Unworthy) is a dystopian novel that could very well exist in the same universe as [...]

The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony. By Annabelle Tometich. Apr. 2024. 320p. Little, Brown, $30 (9780316540322). 300. The Mango Tree is a candid account of half-Filipino, [...]

Shoot the Moon. By Isa Arsen. Oct. 2023. 336p. Putnam, $27 (9780593543887). Arsen's moving first novel tells the story of Annie Fisk, a bisexual woman who went after what she [...]

Digging Stars. By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma. Sept. 2023. 288p. Norton, $27.95 (9781324035176). In her second novel, following House of Stone (2019), Tshuma explores the effects of colonization and familial disharmony, [...]

* Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe. By Aomawa Shields. June 2023.352p. Viking, $28 (9780593299180); e-book (9780593299197). 520.92. There seems to be no [...]

La Tercera. By Gina Apostol. May 2023.480p. Soho, $27 (9781641293907); e-book (9781641293914). Apostol's (Bibliolepsy, 2022) periphrastic and digressive story follows Rosario Delgado, a New York-based Filipino immigrant and novelist whose [...]

* Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird. By Agustina Bazterrica. Tr. by Sarah Moses. June 2023. 176p. Scribner, paper, $17.99 (9781668012666). Fans of Bazterrica's Tender is the Flesh (2020) are in [...]

Table for One. By Yun Ko-eun. Tr. by Lizzie Buehler. Apr. 2024. 264p. Columbia Univ., paper, $20 (9780231192033). The title story in Ko-Eun's (The Disaster Tourist, 2020) short-story collection features [...]

The People Who Report More Stress. By Alejandro Varela. Apr. 2023.256P. Astra, $26 (9781662601071); e-book (9781662601088). Varela's collection of 13 interconnected short stories views the world through the eyes of [...]

Now You See Us. By Balli Kaur Jaswal. Mar. 2023. 320p. Morrow, $30 (9780063161603); e-book (9780063161627). Jaswal (The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, 2019) presents a tale about three [...]

* A Broken People's Playlist. By Chimeka Garricks. Mar. 2023. 224p. Harper, $24.99 (9780063268180); e-book (9780063268203). A dozen interlinked, music-oriented stories set in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where Garricks was raised, [...]

* My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole. By Will Jawando. May 2022.240p. Farrar, $28 (9780374604875). 306. Civil rights [...]

* Daughter in Exile. By Bisi Adjapon. Jan. 2023.400p. Harper, $27.99 (9780063089020); e-book (9780063089013). Adjapon's second novel feels almost like a sequel to The Teller of Secrets (2021) as it [...]

* What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez. By Claire Jimenez. Mar. 2023.240P. Grand Central, $28 (9781538725962); e-book, $13.99 (9781538725986). Jimenez's witty debut novel focuses on the ferocious love of a tight-knit [...]

* Valley of Shadows. By Rudy Ruiz. Sept. 2022.306p. Blackstone, $27.99 (9781982604646). Ruiz's second historical novel set in the 1880s brings readers back to the Texas-Mexico border as they follow [...]

* A Very Typical Family. By Sierra Godfrey. Sept. 2022.352p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, $27.99 (9781728255200); e-book, $14.99 (9781728255224). Natalie Walker is having a very bad day. She is a 32-year-old woman who [...]

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization. By Neil deGrasse Tyson. Sept. 2022.288p. Holt, $28.99 (9781250861504); e-book, $14.99 (9781250861498). 523.1. Astrophysicist Tyson unabashedly wades into the political and cultural fray, using [...]

The Confession of Copeland Cane. By Keenan Norris. June 2021. 288p. Unnamed, $28 (9781951213251). Norris follows his debut coming-of-age novel, Brother and the Dancer (2013), with a story of a [...]

* A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars. By Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horowitz. June 2021. 368p. Ballantine, $28 (97819848190931. 530.1. This illuminating and candid [...]

A Tiny Upward Shove. By Melissa Chadburn. Apr. 2022. 352p. Farrar, $27 (9780374277758). Essayist and activist Chadburn's debut novel is a magical realism-infused literary feast that boldly mixes fictionalized yet [...]

Post-Traumatic. By Chantal V. Johnson. Apr. 2022. 320p. Little, Brown, $28 (9780316264235). Tenant lawyer Johnson's first novel centers on the erratic and self-conscious life of Vivian, a Black Puerto Rican [...]

* Vagabonds! By Eloghosa Osunde. Mar. 2022. 320p. Riverhead, $28 (9780593330029). Nigerian artist and writer Osunde's debut novel, set in the hustle and bustle of Lagos, is partly narrated by [...]

Brown Girls. By Daphne Palasi Andreades. Jan. 2022.224p. Random, $24 (9780593243428). Set in Queens, New York, this debut novel from a first-generation Filipino American presents a string of vignettes depicting [...]

Move: The Forces Uprooting Us. By Parag Khanna. Oct. 2021.352p. Scribner, $30 (9781982168971). 304.2. Khanna is a strategist who makes predictions about foreign-policy trends. Here, as with The Future Is [...]

* The Teller of Secrets. By Bisi Adjapon. Nov. 2021.336p. HarperVia, $26.99 (9780063088948). This breathtaking debut novel from Nigerian Ghanaian author Adjapon is a coming-of-age story seen through the eyes [...]

* Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Story of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood. By Dawn Turner. Sept. 2021. 336p. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (97819821077031.818. Novelist and former Chicago Tribune [...]

Chola Salvation. By Estella Gonzalez. Apr. 2021. 216p. Arte Publico, paper, $18.95 (9781558859142). In her first collection of stories set mostly in her hometown of East Los Angeles, Gonzalez unfurls [...]

* Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going. By Neil deGrasse Tyson and James Trefil. Mar. 2021.312p. illus. National Geographic, $30 [...]

* Big Time. By Jen Spyra. Mar. 2021. 320p. Random, $27 (9781984855268). Spyra, an improv comedy performer and former writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, displays her audacious [...]

* Camgirl. By Isa Mazzei. Nov. 2019.352p. Rare Bird, $27 (9781644280355). 306.77. Modern technology has enabled anyone with a camera to broadcast virtually anything that anyone desires. This raw memoir [...]

My Time among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education. By Jennine Capo Crucet. Sept. 2019.208p. Picador, paper, $17 (9781250299437). 306. In this lucid and unfeigned collection of nine essays, [...]

* Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief. By Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart. Sept. 2019. 288p. Amistad, $25.99 (9780062917997). 364. This astonishing memoir by [...]

American Delirium. By Betina Gonzalez. Tr. by Heather Cleary. Feb. 2021. 224p. Holt, 526.99 (9781250621283). This unsettling yet erudite translated work by Argentinian writer Gonzalez weaves a story about a [...]

* The Charmed Wife. By Olga Grushin. Jan. 2021.288p. Putnam, $27 (9780593085509); e book, $14.99 (9780593085516). Grushin follows Forty Rooms (2016) with a reconceived and extended fairy tale that will [...]

The Museum of Forgotten Memories. By Anstey Harris. Nov. 2020. 336p. Gallery, paper, $16.99 (9781982126896); e-book, $11.99 (9781982127107). A family's peculiar museum becomes a surprising source of renewal and hope [...]

* The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez. By Rudy Ruiz. Sept. 2020. 320p. Blackstone, $27.99 (97819826046151. Mexican American author Ruiz's debut novel, following his short-story collection, Seven for the Revolution (2015), [...]

The Disaster Tourist. By Yun Ko-Eun. Tr. by Lizzie Buehler. Aug. 2020. 208p. Counterpoint, paper, $16.95 (9781640094161). Yona is an employee of Jungle, a South Korean company that arranges expensive [...]

* Tender Is the Flesh. By Agustina Bazterrica. Tr. by Sarah Moses. Aug. 2020. 224p. Scribner, paper, $16 (9781982150921). This translated prizewinner by Argentinian novelist Bazterrica exquisitely dishes up an [...]

* I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. By Laura Van den Berg. July 2020. 224p. Farrar, $26 (9780374102098). After two novels, Van den Berg (The Third Hotel, 2018) returns [...]

Red Dust. By Yoss. Tr. by David Frye. July 2020. 208p. Restless, paper, $17 (9781632062468). Cuban sf writer Yoss adds a dash of detective noir to his latest space opera. [...]

A house is usually more than just a place to rest your head, but the houses depicted in these thrillers and tales of psychological suspense truly stretch the idea of [...]

* The Seep. By Chana Porter. Jan. 2020.216p. Soho, $25 (9781641290869). Porter's first novel opens with a young couple hosting a lavish dinner party amidst an announced alien invasion. The [...]

Such a Fun Age. By Kiley Reid. 2019.320p. Putnam, $26 (9780525541905). Emira is an educated, Black, 25-year-old babysitter partying late one night when she gets a frantic call to babysit [...]

* Letters from an Astrophysicist. By Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Oct. 2019.272p. Norton, $19.95 (9781324003311). 523. Astrophysicist and ebullient educator Tyson is back with another scintillating compendium of science topics illuminated [...]