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Spotlight · September 2026
Back to School
Coming-of-age, classrooms and the education of the outsider. Books to carry you into a new season of reading.

The Yield
Tara June Winch

Terra Nullius
Claire G. Coleman

The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters

Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty

The Removed
Brandon Hobson

Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge

The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory

A Princess in Theory
Alyssa Cole

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert

Rebel
Beverly Jenkins

The Duke Who Didn't
Courtney Milan

The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang

Recipe for Persuasion
Sonali Dev

Ayesha At Last
Uzma Jalaluddin

Long Shot
Kennedy Ryan

The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan

Starfish
Akemi Dawn Bowman

When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
Sabina Khan

Love, Hate & Other Filters
Samira Ahmed

Saints and Misfits
S.K. Ali

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram

Patron Saints of Nothing
Randy Ribay

Like a Love Story
Abdi Nazemian

Yesterday Is History
Kosoko Jackson

The Gravity of Us
Phil Stamper

Rez Ball
Byron Graves

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
Julie C. Dao

We Set the Dark on Fire
Tehlor Kay Mejia

Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger
The full index

Sharks in the Time of Saviours
Kawai Strong Washburn
"A boy saved by sharks. A family bound by the old gods of Hawaiʻi."
August · Global Voices

The Yield
Tara June Winch
"A dying man writes a dictionary of his language, every word a piece of stolen land reclaimed."
September · Back to School

Terra Nullius
Claire G. Coleman
"You think you know this story of settlers and the settled. You don't."
September · Back to School

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi (tr. Geoffrey Trousselot)
"In a Tokyo basement café, one seat lets you travel back in time — until your coffee gets cold."
August · Global Voices

Empire of Sand
Tasha Suri
"She can dance the gods awake — and an empire wants her power."
August · Global Voices

The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
"A four-year-old girl vanishes from the berry fields. Two families are broken by the same secret."
September · Back to School

Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee
"To retake an impossible fortress, she must share her mind with a dead traitor."
August · Global Voices

Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty
"Twelve linked stories from a Penobscot boyhood — frozen hair, cursed jars, and love that survives anyway."
September · Back to School

The Gilded Wolves
Roshani Chokshi
"Six outsiders. One impossible heist. Paris, 1889 — and magic is power."
August · Global Voices

The Removed
Brandon Hobson
"Fifteen years after police killed their son, a Cherokee family gathers — and the spirit world leans in."
September · Back to School

Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
"Her mother wants her to be a doctor. Libertie wants to know what freedom actually feels like."
September · Back to School

The House of Shattered Wings
Aliette de Bodard
"She's the last of her kind — bound to a fallen angel who might get her killed."
August · Global Voices
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Trail of Lightning
Rebecca Roanhorse
"The world ended. Dinétah survived — and its monsters need killing."
August · Global Voices

The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory
"Stuck in a lift with a stranger. Leaving it with a fake date to a wedding."
September · Back to School

Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson
"Jared's just trying to survive high school. Then the ravens start talking."
August · Global Voices

A Princess in Theory
Alyssa Cole
"Those "you are betrothed to an African prince" emails? For Naledi, they turn out to be true."
September · Back to School

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert
"Item one on Chloe's list: get a life. Item two: the tattooed handyman is not supposed to be on the list."
September · Back to School

The Lesser Blessed
Richard Van Camp
"A Tłı̨chǫ teenager, a new kid in town, and one unforgettable northern winter."
August · Global Voices

Moon of the Crusted Snow
Waubgeshig Rice
"When the power dies, an Anishinaabe community rediscovers how to survive winter — and outsiders come knocking."
August · Global Voices

Rebel
Beverly Jenkins
"Reconstruction New Orleans, a Northern volunteer, and the man who fishes her out of the bayou."
September · Back to School

The Duke Who Didn't
Courtney Milan
"Once a year, the village of Wedgeford fills with visitors — and Chloe Fong has a sauce to launch and a duke to ignore."
September · Back to School

Salt Houses
Hala Alyan
"Four generations of a Palestinian family, scattered by war, held together by memory."
August · Global Voices

The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
"She approaches kissing like calculus — so she hires a professional tutor."
September · Back to School

The Moor's Account
Laila Lalami
"The first Black explorer of America finally tells his own story."
August · Global Voices
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Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
"A son, a father, and an America that promised more than it gave."
August · Global Voices

Recipe for Persuasion
Sonali Dev
"Her first love walks onto her reality cooking show — twelve years after she broke both their hearts."
September · Back to School

Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber
"Love simmers in a Lebanese café in Los Angeles — one dish at a time."
August · Global Voices

Ayesha At Last
Uzma Jalaluddin
"She writes poetry. He judges her for it. Toronto’s Muslim community will enjoy the show."
September · Back to School

Long Shot
Kennedy Ryan
"The night before the biggest game of his life, he meets her in a bar. Then she marries someone else."
September · Back to School

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Fatima Bhutto
"One morning. Three brothers. Three different Pakistans."
August · Global Voices

The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan
"After her mother dies, Leigh knows one impossible thing: her mother is now a bird."
September · Back to School

Mem
Bethany C. Morrow
"In 1920s Montreal, memories can be extracted — and one of them refuses to fade."
August · Global Voices

Starfish
Akemi Dawn Bowman
"Kiko paints what she cannot say out loud. This year, she finally leaves the house that silences her."
September · Back to School

The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle
"Lovecraft's most racist story, retold — and reclaimed — by a Black hustler in 1920s Harlem."
August · Global Voices

Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Cassandra Khaw
"A wedding party. A haunted Heian mansion. A bride buried in its walls."
August · Global Voices

When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon
"Their parents arranged it. Dimple threw her iced coffee at it. Summer had other plans."
September · Back to School
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The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
Sabina Khan
"Caught kissing her girlfriend, Rukhsana is on a plane to Bangladesh before she can explain."
September · Back to School

The Knights of Breton Court
Maurice Broaddus
"King Arthur rises again — on the streets of Indianapolis."
August · Global Voices

Grace
Natashia Deón
"A murdered mother watches over the daughter she never got to raise."
August · Global Voices

Love, Hate & Other Filters
Samira Ahmed
"Maya dreams in film scenes. America keeps recasting her as a suspect."
September · Back to School

Saints and Misfits
S.K. Ali
"Everyone calls him a saint of the community. Janna knows exactly what he did."
September · Back to School

A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
"A diary washes ashore in Canada. Inside: a Tokyo schoolgirl's last words?"
August · Global Voices

Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto
"One accidental death. Four meddling aunties. The biggest wedding of the year."
August · Global Voices

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
"Darius has never fit in anywhere — until a boy in Yazd teaches him the Farsi word for friend."
September · Back to School

The Atlas of Reds and Blues
Devi S. Laskar
"As she bleeds on her driveway, a woman replays the thousand cuts that led here."
August · Global Voices

Patron Saints of Nothing
Randy Ribay
"His cousin was killed in the drug war. The family won't say his name. Jay flies to Manila for the truth."
September · Back to School

Like a Love Story
Abdi Nazemian
"New York, 1989: three teenagers, one closet, and a revolution set to Madonna."
September · Back to School

A Burning
Megha Majumdar
"One Facebook post. Three lives. A country on fire."
August · Global Voices
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The Worst Best Man
Mia Sosa
"Her dream contract depends on the best man who helped wreck her wedding."
August · Global Voices

Yesterday Is History
Kosoko Jackson
"His new liver came with a side effect: time travel. And a boy in 1969."
September · Back to School

The Gravity of Us
Phil Stamper
"His dad joins the Mars programme, reality cameras move in — and Cal falls for the astronaut’s son."
September · Back to School

Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
"A Laguna Pueblo veteran comes home from war — healing lies in the old stories."
August · Global Voices

House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
"The Pulitzer winner that announced Native American literature to the world."
August · Global Voices

Rez Ball
Byron Graves
"The whole rez shows up for the Warriors. This season, Tre plays for his brother."
September · Back to School

Celestial Bodies
Jokha Alharthi (tr. Marilyn Booth)
"Three sisters, one Omani village, and a country transforming beneath their feet."
August · Global Voices

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
Julie C. Dao
"Every villain has a first chapter. This is the Evil Queen’s."
September · Back to School

Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree (tr. Daisy Rockwell)
"At eighty, Ma gets out of bed — and walks straight toward the border that split her life."
August · Global Voices

We Set the Dark on Fire
Tehlor Kay Mejia
"Trained to be the perfect wife, Dani was never supposed to fall for the other one."
September · Back to School

Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger
"Ellie can raise the ghosts of animals. Her dead cousin just asked her to solve his murder."
September · Back to School

Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi (tr. Jonathan Wright)
"A junk dealer stitches a body from bomb-blast remains. Then it stands up."
August · Global Voices
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The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa (tr. Stephen Snyder)
"On an unnamed island, things disappear — and remembering them is a crime."
August · Global Voices