Best Fiction of 2024 (so far)

Jay was tipped for greatness, a promising career already taking shape before him. Now, undocumented in the United States, he lives out of his car and makes a living as an essential worker. When Jay arrives at a house set in an enormous acreage of woodland, he finds the last person he ever expected to see again: Alice, a former lover from his art school days. In the twenty years since, their fortunes could not be more different. Ashamed, Jay hopes Alice won't recognize him - but she does and invites him to recover from COVID - setting a reckoning decades in the making into motion.

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Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: they'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea - and it just might work. But what if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?

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Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus' scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister's wedding at a luxury eco-resort, a veritable who's-who of sultans, barons, and oligarchs, and seduce a woman with money. When a volcanic eruption burns through the nuptials and a hot mic exposes a secret tryst, the Gresham family plans - and their reputation - go up in flames.

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Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it on her own. She's still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor - and while the affair is brief, it isn't brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Now, at twenty, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusion - fast. As an experiment, Margo starts an OnlyFans account. Before she knows it, she's turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margo's problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price? Author of "The Knockout Queen." Print run 100,000.

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Once top of her class, the thirty-five-year-old finds herself stuck in a life that isn't the one she expected. All her friends seem to have it all figured it out. Did she just not get the memo they all did? When she arrives at her alma mater, she receives a text from an unlisted number. Somewhere on campus, a discreet female-led organization provides comprehensive memos to select students, a set of instructions that are a blueprint for success. Now, she's being given the second chance to relive her life and make all the right decisions this time around. But at what price? Lauren Mechling is author of "How Could She." Print run 75,000.

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A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible. A civil servant is tasked with working as a "bridge:" living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore. By the time the true shape of the Ministry's project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how - and whether she believes - what she does next can change the future.

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Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos. But Jasmyn struggles to find her place. Then Jasmyn discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders. Frustration turns to dread as their loved ones start embracing the Liberty way of life. Will the truth destroy her world in ways she never could have imagined? Author of YA "Everything, Everything." Print run 350,000.

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Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology. Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can't refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren't the only ones hunting for it. Maya sets out on a breakneck quest through a universe teeming with strange life and ancient ruins. Someone will betray her along the way. Worse yet, in choosing to save one species, she may condemn humanity and Earth itself. Author of "The Deep Sky." Print run 75,000.

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"Women can be heroes." When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.

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Stephen King's magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. "Two Talented Bastids" explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream," a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In "Rattlesnakes," a sequel to "Cujo," a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries.

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