Books

Caleb Roehrig's new YA thriller follows socialite-turned-cat burglar Margo Manning and her crew of kickboxing drag queens as they take on one last multimillion-dollar heist — and its consequences.

Leigh Bardugo's latest returns readers to her Grishaverse, a few years after a grand magical battle left young King Nikolai of Ravka with a demonic problem he's now struggling to keep secret.

Behrouz Boochani, who has been detained offshore since 2013, had to compose his debut using WhatsApp messages. Now, that book has earned him the Victorian Prize for Literature

Hala Alyan reflects on three decades of life in an intimate, unsparing new poetry collection that offers a unique look at life as a Palestinian in exile, a woman, and a young person looking for love.

In Mike Chen's debut novel, a time-traveling secret agent is stranded in the past and has to live out a normal life — including a family — that becomes a problem when he returns to his own time.

Will Hunt approaches the universe of underground caves and bunkers, death and life, with an unusual dedication and open-mindedness — and some striking photography — that is difficult to resist.

Maurice Carlos Ruffin's razor-sharp new novel is set in a dystopian near future where race relations have deteriorated further and scientists have developed a procedure to "demelanize" black people.