Y/N by Esther Yi
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Esther Yi’s debut novel tries to be a reflection of the fandom experience of our time.
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Shuggie 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 MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Debut Fiction!
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Debut fiction is a strong indicator of the general health of a literary year.
Read MoreFreshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
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It’s refreshing how Emezi approaches a story of fractured national and racial identity quite differently from recent books that deal with similar themes.
Read MoreCherry by Nico Walker
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A debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin by a veteran, drug addict, and criminal.
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 Spy of Venice by Benet Brandreth
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A debut novel starring Shakespeare as swashbuckling hero.
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 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.
Read MoreBefore I Lose My Style by Mike Kaspar
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Contemporary gay fiction can be so much of a type that readers searching for quality are naturally skittish. A half-naked male body on the cover? The elevation of senseless bed-hopping into a lifestyle? The Devil Wears Product Placement gone amok? The slightest thing can send us fleeing back to Edmund White.
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