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July 2024

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Whoever You Are, Honey

Whoever You Are, Honey

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm—by a thrilling feminist voice for the age of AI.

Debut Novel
Sci-Fi
LGBTQIA+
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Masquerade

Masquerade

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future.

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Historical
Magical Realism
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The Stardust Grail

The Stardust Grail

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization.

Sci-Fi
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A Novel Love Story

A Novel Love Story

A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction…literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics.

Romance
Magical Realism
Includes a Cat
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The Unraveling

The Unraveling

This chilling, sizzling, and addictive thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland follows a New York psychiatrist’s dark descent into dangerous obsession.

Thriller
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I Was a Teenage Slasher

I Was a Teenage Slasher

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix.

Award Worthy
Horror
Coming of Age

June 2024

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Lies and Weddings

Lies and Weddings

From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners from the iconic author of Crazy Rich Asians.

Award Worthy
Contemporary
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The Eyes Are the Best Part

The Eyes Are the Best Part

Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Horror
Movie/TV Coming
Coming of Age
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Dreadful

Dreadful

A sharp-witted, debut high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and a garlic festival – all at once. Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, K. J. Parker and Travis Baldree.

Debut Novel
Fantasy
Satire
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The Last Murder at the End of the World

The Last Murder at the End of the World

From the bestselling author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop and an audacious solution.

Sci-Fi
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Perfume and Pain

Perfume and Pain

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.

Movie/TV Coming
LGBTQIA+
Literary
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This Summer Will Be Different

This Summer Will Be Different

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer will be different.

Movie/TV Coming
Romance

May 2024

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Lovers and Liars

Lovers and Liars

Three wildly different sisters reunite for a destination wedding at an English castle in this heartfelt and rollicking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters.

Contemporary
Includes a Dog
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You Know What You Did

You Know What You Did

In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present...

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Thriller
Includes a Dog
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Ghost Station

Ghost Station

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence.

Sci-Fi
Horror
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Evocation

Evocation

From The Sunday Times bestselling author of B&N's best books of 2022 A Dowry of Blood, comes a spellbinding and vibrant new series. The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov.

Fantasy
LGBTQIA+
Romance
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The Garden

The Garden

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically thrilling tale of women yearning to become mothers and the ways the female body has always been policed and manipulated, from the award-winning author of The Illness Lesson (“A masterpiece” – Elizabeth Gilbert)

Award Worthy
Gothic
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Happy Medium

Happy Medium

A clever con woman must convince a skeptical, sexy farmer of his property's resident real-life ghost if she's to save them all from a fate worse than death, in this delightful new novel from the author of Mrs. Nash's Ashes.

Romance
Magical Realism
Includes a Dog

April 2024

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The Rule Book

The Rule Book

College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies to lovers, second-chance romance, the highly anticipated companion novel to the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet—from the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect.

Romance
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Expiration Dates

Expiration Dates

From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes a love story that will define a generation. Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.

Romance
Magical Realism
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A Sweet Sting of Salt

A Sweet Sting of Salt

Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll have to fight to keep herself—and the woman she loves—safe in this stunning queer reimagining of the classic folktale “The Selkie Wife.”

Debut Novel
Fantasy
LGBTQIA+
Gothic
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Diavola

Diavola

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology.

Horror
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James

James

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson’s critically acclaimed film American Fiction.

Movie/TV Coming
Award Worthy
Historical
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How to Solve Your Own Murder

How to Solve Your Own Murder

For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate…. Now it’s up to her great-niece to catch the killer.

Award Worthy
Mystery

March 2024

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Wandering Stars

Wandering Stars

The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

Award Worthy
Literary
Historical
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Baby X

Baby X

When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller. With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets The Ones in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X.

Sci-Fi
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Piglet

Piglet

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it all.

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Literary
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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true?

Debut Novel
Thriller
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Bride

Bride

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.

Romance
Fantasy
Includes a Dog
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.

Historical
Magical Realism

February 2024

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Come & Get It

Come & Get It

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

Literary
LGBTQIA+
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Valley Verified

Valley Verified

When a fashion writer dives headfirst into the cutthroat Silicon Valley tech world, her future threatens to unravel in this addictive novel by Kyla Zhao, author of The Fraud Squad.

Contemporary
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The House of Last Resort

The House of Last Resort

The next high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden.

Movie/TV Coming
Horror
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The Tainted Cup

The Tainted Cup

A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett.

Award Worthy
Fantasy
Mystery
LGBTQIA+
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is an epic love story one hundred years in the making… (OR) In this enchanting love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician are irreversibly linked through the history, art, and magic of Harlem.

Award Worthy
Romance
Historical
Magical Realism
Includes a Dog
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The Clinic

The Clinic

From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic on the Pacific Northwest coast, in which the death of a woman inside prompts her sister to enter the clinic as a patient in order to find the truth. Perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham and Tarryn Fisher!

Thriller
Includes a Cat

January 2024

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Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole

A twisty debut exploring the dark side of true crime fandom and the blurry lines of female friendship, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, My Favorite Murder, and Fleabag.

Debut Novel
Mystery
Includes a Dog
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Where You End

Where You End

From bestselling nonfiction author Abbott Kahler comes a spellbinding fiction debut: an unusual form of amnesia upends the lives of identical twins, forcing them to face the indelible, dangerous shadow of the past.

Debut Novel
Horror
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Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023 Members' Choice Winner)

Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023 Members' Choice Winner)

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black.

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Literary
Sci-Fi
LGBTQIA+
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Sugar, Baby

Sugar, Baby

In the vein of Luster and Queenie, an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of the internet-an intoxicating, bold debut from a dazzling new voice.

Debut Novel
Contemporary
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

“A dark and heady dream of a book” (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous.

Gothic
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The Fake Mate

The Fake Mate

Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson.

Romance
Fantasy
Includes a Dog

December 2023

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The Fiction Writer

The Fiction Writer

From the USA Today-bestselling author of Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family history with Daphne du Maurier and finds herself drawn into a tangled web of obsession, marital secrets, and stolen manuscripts.

Gothic
Mystery
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What Waits in the Woods

What Waits in the Woods

Her ballet career derailed by injury, a once-promising young dancer returns to her hometown only to face a grisly discovery – and the increasingly alarming realization that nothing from her past is quite what she believed – in this electrifyingly twisty suburban thriller for fans of Stacy Willingham, Greer Hendricks, and Megan Miranda.

Thriller
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Yours for the Taking

Yours for the Taking

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world.

Debut Novel
Sci-Fi
LGBTQIA+
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The Other Half

The Other Half

Rupert’s 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald’s—catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush.

Debut Novel
Mystery
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord

Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, a dazzling first entry in a captivating new Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin from Celeste Connally.

Award Worthy
Debut Novel
Historical
Mystery
Includes a Dog

November 2023

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The Favorites

The Favorites

A graduate student plots a takedown of the popular professor who wronged her sister in this provocative campus novel about privilege, power, and obsession.

Thriller
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The Good Part

The Good Part

By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year-old wakes up to the life she's always wanted, but is it really a dream come true?

Contemporary
Magical Realism
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The Reformatory

The Reformatory

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

Award Worthy
Historical
Horror
Coming of Age
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Love Interest

Love Interest

A sparkling adversaries-to-lovers romcom set at a magazine publisher in Manhattan. When Casey and Alex are forced into proximity, they soon realize falling for each other is just as much of a risk and as it is a reward.

Debut Novel
Romance
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Midnight is the Darkest Hour

Midnight is the Darkest Hour

From the critically acclaimed author of In My Dreams I Hold A Knife and The Last Housewife comes a gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where two outcasts—the preacher's daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks—hold the key to uncovering the truth.

Thriller
Coming of Age

October 2023

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The Burnout

The Burnout

Sparks fly in this delightful novel about two burned out professionals who meet at a ramshackle resort on the British seaside—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher.

Romance
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The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress in this glittering novel of family, love, ambition, and self discovery by the USA Today bestselling author of The Flight Girls.

Historical
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Death Valley

Death Valley

The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.

Literary
Magical Realism
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Black Sheep

Black Sheep

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.

Horror
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Starter Villain

Starter Villain

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place.

Award Worthy
Sci-Fi
Includes a Cat
Satire
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Rouge

Rouge

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?

Gothic
Includes a Cat

September 2023

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Perfectly Nice Neighbors

Perfectly Nice Neighbors

A twisty and consuming thriller, Perfectly Nice Neighbors asks: When your dream home comes with nightmare neighbors, how far will you go to keep your family safe?

Thriller
Includes a Dog
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Learned by Heart

Learned by Heart

Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, Learned by Heart is a heartbreakingly gorgeous novel from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.

Award Worthy
Historical
LGBTQIA+
Coming of Age
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Amazing Grace Adams

Amazing Grace Adams

Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove... meet Amazing Grace Adams, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink―who finally pushes back.

Debut Novel
Contemporary
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Bridge

Bridge

A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in this dazzling new thriller from the author of The Shining Girls that is "sheer thrilling madness with a big, beating heart that reminds us we're all connected" (Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author).

Sci-Fi
Includes a Dog
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The Long Game

The Long Game

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this smalltown love story in the vein of Ted Lasso and It Happened One Summer —from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception.

Romance
Includes a Cat

August 2023

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Small Worlds

Small Worlds

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water.

Award Worthy
Literary
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California Golden

California Golden

Two sisters navigate the turbulent, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and longing for a family they never had, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife.

Historical
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Mister Magic

Mister Magic

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and discover the secret of its enigmatic host—in this “skin-crawling story of pop culture fandom and ‘90s nostalgia” (Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Woods) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.

Horror
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How Can I Help You

How Can I Help You

From the author of Looker comes this “compulsive and unforgettable novel” (Mona Awad) of razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined.

Thriller
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Business or Pleasure

Business or Pleasure

A ghostwriter and a struggling actor help each other on the page and in the bedroom in this steamy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk.

Award Worthy
Romance

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One Bad Night & Other Stories

One Bad Night & Other Stories

Aardvark Book Club launched in October 2022, and we’re celebrating our three-year anniversary with this original horror anthology featuring past 8 Aardvark authors.

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Kay Chronister, Del Sandeen, Kylie Lee Baker, Rachel Harrison, CJ Leede, Jennifer Thorne, S.A. Barnes, Stephen Graham Jones

"An absolutely phenomenal anthology of short stories from some of the best voices in horror right now!" - Trisha

"Not a bad story in the bunch. “One Bad Night” wrecked me." - Brittany

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Members’ Choice Winners

Every year Aardvarkians vote on their favourite reads and we celebrate with a special reprinting. These titles have won our hearts and minds over the last few years.

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025 Members' Choice Winner)
Stephen Graham Jones
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The Reformatory (2024 Members' Choice Winner)
Tananarive Due
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Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023 Members' Choice Winner)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Books FAQ

When are new books dropped?

We drop 5-7 new books on the first of the month at 8am ET. Yes, even January 1st! We drop the 1st rain or shine, holiday or not!

Do I get to pick my books?

Yes! Every month members can select 1 book using their credit and purchase up to 2 extra books at a discount. The first book must be from the newest month’s picks but the extra books can be from any month.

What types of books do you carry?

We carry a range of genres from horror to literary fiction to romance to thriller and more! We love spotlighting debut voices and introducing our members to under-the-radar picks. We have a full-time editorial team dedicated to curating our selections.

Do you offer e-books or audiobooks?

We exclusively offer hardcover Aardvark editions with a matte dust jacket and buttery soft hardcover underneath. Check under the dust jacket and you’ll notice a foiled hardcover spine. Hardcover > ebooks any day. Our books won’t die on a trans-Atlantic flight!

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No, every order must include at least one book from the current month’s selections. Your add-ons (up to 2) can be from any month.

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Will out-of-stock books come back?

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Do I get to keep my books?

Yes, they’re yours to read, donate, share, annotate or hoard! Loan them to friends at your own risk!

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