10 Must-Read Books Out This Week

Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams returns to stores this week with the story of Dimple, a 30-year-old woman who asks her estranged half-siblings for help when she accidentally kills her boyfriend.

Remy, the Duke of Valenbonne’s only son, was always fated to be a vampire hunter — even if his vamp-hunting peers have looked down on him since his mother ran off with a bloodsucker. When he meets two vampires who don’t seem so bad, though, Remy’s loyalties will be tested.

In this masterful novel from Dominicana author Angie Cruz, a middle-aged woman struggling to reenter the job market in the wake of the Great Recession recounts her life story to an unsuspecting career counselor.

After someone reported Carolyn Hays to the Department of Children and Families for supporting her daughter’s transition, she and her family relocated in the hopes of finding a more welcoming environment — but to Hays’ dismay, transphobia followed them. In A Girlhood, Hays reaffirms her support for her child.

A young woman volunteering as a surgeon at a makeshift hospital in the early days of the Syrian civil war must decide whether to flee the country or stay in this emotional debut from Syrian Canadian author Zoulfa Katouh.

From the author of Severance comes this collection of eight surreal stories that tug at the seams of our collective reality.

Desideria Mesa’s debut centers on Rose, a white-passing Latine who hides both her heritage and her magical powers from her neighbors in 1920s Kansas City. When she finds herself in over her head, however, Rose realizes that her magic may be the only thing that can save her.

The third installment in Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series, Nona the Ninth sees the surviving necromancers of the Nine Houses scattered to the winds. As a resistance movement rises on a lonely planet, three exiles parent one amnesiac teenager, determined to find out who she truly is.

Told in a series of interconnected stories, Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions follows four young women from their days at boarding school to adulthood.

Uyghur author Perhat Tursun was disappeared by the Chinese government in 2018. The Backstreets, a work that parallels the author’s life, is his first novel to be translated into English.