Close to Home by Michael Magee
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A debut novel in which a young man tries to escape his past.
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Captain Ni'mat's Last Battle by Mohamed Leftah
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The late Mohamed Leftah’s postumous 2008 novel about forbidden love gets an English-language translation.
Read MoreSuch a Beautiful Thing To Behold by Umar Turaki
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The people in Umar Turaki’s debut novel must contend with a mysterious illness known as “The Grey.”
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Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol
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A award-winning novel about a young woman intoxicated by books.
Read MoreCatch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić
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A debut novel takes readers down the rabbit hole of war and memory in the Balkans
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2020: Debut Fiction!
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Many very interesting, challenging, and moving debut novels appeared in 2020.
Read MoreLuster by Raven Leilani
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Raven Leilani’s much-buzzed debut novel stars an aimless young woman in a strange relationship with an older married man.
Read MoreOona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
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The title character of Margarita Montimore’s debut novel is living the years of her life out of chronological order - but some problems are timeless.
Read MoreShuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
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In Douglas Stewart’s moving debut novel, a family is shattered by a mother’s all-consuming alcoholism.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2019: Debut Fiction!
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And now for Stevereads’ choices of the best debut novels of 2019.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “You couldn’t betray someone efficiently if you didn’t love them first”
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A multilayered, complex novel that explores how the sins of our fathers reflect upon us in an entirely new way.
Read MoreThe Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton
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A debut novel exploring the corruption at the heart of the art world in eighteenth century London.
Read MoreOK, Mr. Field by Katharine Kilalea
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A deeply meditative novel whose curious tone teases out tantalizing questions about how we position ourselves in the world.
Read MoreProblems by Jade Sharma
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It feels like Maya, the narrator of Jade Sharma's debut novel, could be the outsider voice of this generation.
Read MoreSky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
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A finely-drawn fictional Viking world, full of characters who all share in common their harsh awareness that they could die tomorrow.
Read MoreThe Invention of Ana by Mikkel Rosengaard
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This debut coming-of-age novel is a story composed of stories about stories.
Read MoreGood Neighbors by Joanne Serling
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A first-rate suburbs-fiction that serves as an elegant but savage indictment.
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The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
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In C.J. Tudor's much-hyped debut thriller, a mysterious figure in 2016 is using the secret cryptogram-language devised by a group of misfit kids back in 1986.
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