Amazed by the abundance of high-quality first-time fiction, we share our instant favorites.
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
By Anthony Marra 400 pages; Hogarth A neighbor saves an 8-year-old Chechen girl from the Russian soldiers who have taken her father, and together they seek shelter in an abandoned hospital. — Abbe Wright
You Are One of Them
By Elliott Holt 304 pages; Penguin Press Three years after being named a youth emissary to the USSR, 13-year-old Jenny allegedly dies in a plane crash along with her parents. Years later her best friend, Sarah, travels to Moscow to find out whether it was all a hoax. — Abbe Wright
Crazy Rich Asians
By Kevin Kwan 416 pages; Doubleday Opulence and zaniness reign when one of Singapore's richest bachelors invites his American-born girlfriend to travel from New York to vacation in his native country. — Abbe Wright
The Golem and the Jinni
By Helene Wecker 496 pages; Harper Two supernatural creatures accidentally unleashed in 19th-century Manhattan forge an unlikely alliance in this fantastical work of historical fiction. — Abbe Wright
Iris Has Free Time
By Iris Smyles 336 pages; Soft Skull Press The hilarious high jinks of a college graduate in New York trying—and frequently failing—to navigate her internship, job interviews, and men, though her slipups rarely dampen her bravado. — Abbe Wright
American Spirit
By Dan Kennedy 352 pages; Little A / New Harvest In this first novel from the outrageously funny host of The Moth podcast, a 40-something media exec goes rogue after losing his job in the recession, taking up drunken residence in his car before embarking on a vision quest to Bali by way of Los Angeles and Yellowstone. — Abbe Wright
The Other Typist
By Suzanne Rindell 368 pages; Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Rose, a prudish police typist who transcribes criminal confessions, falls under the influence of a glamorous colleague whose glittering life becomes her obsession, in this buzzed-about book set in 1920s New York. — Abbe Wright
The Pink Hotel
By Anna Stothard 288 pages; Picador Inspired by the author's discovery of her own mother's love letters, this novel is a noirish nod to the City of Angels, and to the protagonist's deceased wild child of a mom. — Abbe Wright
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton
By Elizabeth L. Silver 320 pages; Crown In this grippingly off-kilter thriller, a young woman sits on death row after being convicted of murder until a high-powered attorney—the victim's mother—intervenes, leaving everyone to wonder why. — Abbe Wright
Golden Boy
By Abigail Tarttelin 352 pages; Atria Books A good-looking, athletic British teenager's seemingly idyllic life gets turned upside down when his oldest friend betrays him, revealing a closely held family secret just as the boy's father is about to run for political office. — Abbe Wright
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