If you’re a paperback pusher like me, 2024 is a good year to fill up your TBR! With the more compact format you can be on the go anywhere you travel, these are the perfect novels to slide into your bag or under your arm to bring all your bookish adventures with you!
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Available now!
When a wealthy man’s car is seen speeding before an accident that kills five people in New Delhi, a traumatized servant is left behind and the man is nowhere to be found. Soon, the lives of three people will intersect as a result of this accident including a servant born living in poverty, a playboy and heir who is determined to outshine his father, and a journalist who will stop at nothing to get the truth.
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Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Loretta Thurwar is about to be freed from prison. Her lover and teammate Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker and Loretta are the stars of the Chain-Gang All Stars where they compete in death matches in exchange for their freedom. As Loretta shows defiance to the games, the Criminal Action Penal Entertainment–the popular and controversial program–will stop at nothing to keep the status quo.
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The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Available now!
Five years ago, Geeta’s husband left her and disappeared. The entire Indian village Geeta lives in believes she killed him. When the other women in the village begin to seek Geeta out for advice on how to get rid of their husbands, the peace she was experiencing with everyone leaving her alone comes to an end. As a woman’s plans go south, everything is about to change for the women in the village, especially Geeta.
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Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
Available now!
Damani works at a fast-food restaurant and is struggling financially following the death of her father. Living paycheck to paycheck, Damani drives for an app while taking care of her mother. When her next passenger, Jolene, enters her car, the sparks fly between the two women. The only thing is Damani has never dated anyone wealthy before, let alone a white woman with money. As their romance intensifies, Jolene does something so unforgivable that it sparks a disastrous chain of events.
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Happy Place by Emily Henry
Available 3/5!
Harriet and Wyn were the golden couple in their friend group and have been since college, but not so much now. Harriet and Wyn have broken up and haven’t been able to tell their friends because everyone is going on their annual trip to Maine. Now, Harriet and Wyn must try to hide their breakup from their friends just as the trip comes to an end.
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Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
Available 3/12!
Darley, the oldest daughter of the Stockton family, has given up her inheritance for motherhood. Sasha, the middle-class New England girl, married into the family and finds herself to be an outsider. Georgiana, the youngest in the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t be with and has to decide what her future holds. Based on the one-percenters of New York city, this one is a witty and lovable novel of family ties.
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You Can Trust Me by Wendy Heard
Available 4/2!
Summer and Leo are best friends who travel around California in Summer’s Land Cruiser. Summer is an excellent con artist who is showing Leo how to survive in this lifestyle. When Leo meets the billionaire Michael Forrester, she charms him into an invitation to his private island. When Leo vanishes, Summer finds herself alone for the first time in years and is on her way to Michael’s Island to find out what happened to her friend.
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The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Available 4/23!
Without knowing it, a group of close friends and lovers in Iowa City are about to experience an explosive year of self-discovery. This includes Seamus, a poet; Ivan, a dancer turned banker who does amateur porn; Fatima, a workaholic who chooses her job over her personal relationships; and Noah, a sex-magnet. As each member in the group prepares for their future, they travel to a cabin to say goodbye to their former lives, only to be forever changed.
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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Available 5/21!
Montserrat is a sound editor who feels like she’s left out due to the boys club running the film industry in the 90s. Montserrat has also been in love with her best friend and fading soap opera actor, Tristan. When Montserrat finds out that Tristan’s neighbor is none other than the cult horror director Abel Urueta, she and Tristan are recruited by Abel to help him find a missing scene from an unreleased movie that he feels could cure him of a curse.
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Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead
Available 7/2!
Although her father is the voice in command at Holy Fire Baptist, Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider in the small town of Bottom Springs, Louisiana. The residents of Bottom Springs are God-fearing people haunted by the legend of the Low Man – a vampiric figure that is rumored to sneak into the bedrooms of sinners and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found in the swamp next to mysterious symbols, Ruth and her friend Everett are the only two who have the answers as to what is really happening in town.
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