Roses, successful the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman+

While Rehman's coming-of-age story centering connected a second-generation, Pakistani American precocious schooler is acceptable successful 1980s Queens, her exploration of pistillate friendships and queer emotion feels timely and timeless, exhilarating and emotional. (December 6)

The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

Florida is slipping distant successful this sweeping epic communicative of endurance that is told successful 4 parts—power, water, light, and time—and offers an all-too-realistic look astatine a imaginable future. As a devastating hurricane wreaks havoc connected their tiny coastal town, an electrical idiosyncratic and his large woman invited an antithetic child, Wanda. The publication follows her arsenic she grows into an adult, exploring the lives of the radical who enactment down aft they are abandoned by civilization. (December 6)

A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of A Thousand Acres comes a enigma set during the California Gold Rush astir enactment idiosyncratic sleuths. After a murderer begins targeting prostitutes, champion friends Eliza and Jean squad up to find the killer, utilizing the works of Edgar Allan Poe arsenic their usher to find clues. (December 6)

A Dash of Salt and Pepper</> by Kosoko Jackson

We're decidedly not complaining astir determination being excessively galore cooks successful the room successful this delicious LGBTQ+ rom-com. Get acceptable to swoon implicit blistery azygous begetter restaurateur Logan and his caller prep cook Xavier, whose moving narration initially seems similar a look for disaster. But their chemistry yet proves to beryllium steamier than a handbasket of dumplings. (December 6)

The Last Invitation by Darby Kane

The Pretty Little Wife scribe has delivered yet different gripping enigma filled with much twists than a container of licorice, beginning with an invitation to an exclusive nine that comes with deadly consequences. While getting successful with the elite radical of almighty women proves to beryllium hard for loner Jessica, getting retired seems intolerable aft she notices a drawstring of salient men, each with connections to the members, person died successful a bid of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. (December 6)

Well Traveled by Jen DeLuca

A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar

Imagine if Titanic and Ocean's 8 came unneurotic to signifier a nail-biting heist aboard the astir infamous vessel successful the world. That is the set-up for A Million to One, which centers connected Josefa, an unapologetic and charismatic thief, who assembles the eventual squad of unsocial girls with precise circumstantial talents in bid to bargain a one-of-a-kind publication encrusted with gems that's worthy millions. (December 13)

The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Prepare for an intimate introspection of mother-daughter dynamics and the expectations of greatness, each acceptable successful a post-#MeToo scenery successful Kapelke-Dale's gripping communicative of a erstwhile soft prodigy reconciling her past aft the decease of her mom. (December 6)

Nine Lives by Maureen Johnson

"When everybody lies, idiosyncratic dies." Which is precisely what happens successful the bestselling YA author's latest twist-filled communicative that volition person your pulse pounding. Johnson's fan-favorite quality Stevie Bell is backmost successful enactment aft solving the acold lawsuit of the period successful the past installment of the Truly Devious series, and this time, she's crossed the pond successful London. While she's initially adrift without a lawsuit to absorption on, Stevie finds intent erstwhile she's introduced to an unsolved treble murder. (December 27)

All the Dark Places by Terri Parlato

If you are a instrumentality of thrillers that volition support you up astatine night, whispering "one much chapter" to your alarm clock, Parlato's execution enigma is the publication for you. Two women—one with a traumatic past, the different a constabulary detective—come unneurotic aft a savage sidesplitting astatine a 40th day enactment rocks a tight-knight Massachusetts community. You cognize what they accidental astir tiny towns: They often have big secrets. (December 27)