This young adult novel by Jason Reynolds is a warm, heartfelt, and fully engaging portrayal of teen love.

This young adult fiction penned by Maya Van Wagenen tells an insightful, humorous, and realistic coming-of-age story.

Allegra Goodman’s new novel centers around a 16th-century noblewoman who is stranded on a desert island. How will she survive and thrive?

A. S. King had an idea and a pretty talented group of friends to help pursue it. Ever a proponent of short-form fiction, she wanted to put together an anthology and offered contributors a dual prompt: Write about a collection and its collector and make it as weird as you possibly can.

This brief novel, written by Selva Almada and translated from Spanish into English by Annie McDermott, tells the story of two men, Enero and El Negro, who embark on a fishing trip on a nameless South American river with a teenager named Tilo, the son of their late friend Eusebio.

This book by Eleanor Catton looks at the horrors of late capitalism and manages to also be a wildly fun read.

“Kairos,” by prizewinning German playwright and author Jenny Erpenbeck, tells the story of a love affair set in East Germany right before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Samantha Harvey has been awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for her fifth novel, “Orbital.” At a slim 144 pages, it details the day-to-day life on board an international space station. It’s been described as “ravishingly beautiful” by The New York Times and has garnered similarly glowing praise from almost all literary critics who come across it.