The Winner
Teddy Wayne
A law-school grad teaching tennis in a gated beach enclave gets tangled up with both a divorcee and her daughter. A dark, propulsive thriller that skewers the very rich. Already headed for the screen.
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If We Were Villains
M.L. Rio
Shakespeare-obsessed acting students, one dead body, everyone a suspect. Dark academia catnip — if you liked The Secret History, start here.
You Again
Debra Jo Immergut
A forty-six-year-old woman keeps spotting her twenty-two-year-old self around New York. A strange, smart novel about memory, regret, and the roads you didn't take.
The Strange Case of Jane O.
Karen Thompson Walker
A new mother starts having blackouts, premonitions, and visions of a man who died twenty years ago. Part literary mystery, part something stranger — Walker is so good at that eerie in-between space.