10 Must-Read Books Out This Week

In this new novel from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take, a dissatisfied housewife gets sucked into a luxury-brand counterfeiting scheme.

While on a seemingly routine trip to the bodega, Lola runs into one ex-lover after another. Confronting her past romantic failures forces Lola to analyze her current relationship with her fiancé — and to wonder if the apparently random encounters were all pre-arranged.

Sabrina & Corina author Kali Fajardo-Anstine returns to stores this week with Woman of Light, the story of a Chicana fortuneteller who may be the only one capable of saving her culture and heritage from extinction.

Trans Tik Toker Lewis Hancox’s honest and uproarious memoir recounts his experiences as a prep school student, when he didn’t yet know he was trans.

Comprising nine stories from Iowa Writer’s Workshop alum Arinze Ifeakandu, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things transports readers into the heart of queer Nigerian society.

In East Oakland, a woman turns to sex work to support herself, her brother, and her neglected 9-year-old neighbor — and soon finds herself embroiled in scandal.

When she begins to grow a thick strip of hair along her spine in the wake of her sister’s untimely death, Marianne seeks out an experimental treatment at a mysterious Welsh retreat. But if she wants to be healed, she’ll have to make an unthinkable sacrifice.

Everyone in Edie’s family knows exactly when they’ll meet their spouse, thanks to her prophesying grandmother. So naturally, she’s excited when her time arrives, and she meets a cute guy — until unexpected bumps in their relationship force her to wonder if he's really The One.

Election heroine Tracy Flick is once again campaigning, this time for a promotion — and, as you might expect, it’s not going well. She should be a shoo-in for the vacant principal position at the high school where she works, but everyone else seems to be a more popular choice.

Hannah Whitten follows up For the Wolf with For the Throne. Here, Red’s older sister, Neve, must band together with an unlikely — and infuriating — ally if she wants to escape the Shadowlands and protect her own from the tyrannical Old Kings.