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Spotlight · September 2026

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Sharks in the Time of Saviours

Kawai Strong Washburn

"A boy saved by sharks. A family bound by the old gods of Hawaiʻi."

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The Yield

Tara June Winch

"A dying man writes a dictionary of his language, every word a piece of stolen land reclaimed."

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Terra Nullius

Claire G. Coleman

"You think you know this story of settlers and the settled. You don't."

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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."

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Empire of Sand

Tasha Suri

"She can dance the gods awake — and an empire wants her power."

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

"A four-year-old girl vanishes from the berry fields. Two families are broken by the same secret."

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Ninefox Gambit

Yoon Ha Lee

"To retake an impossible fortress, she must share her mind with a dead traitor."

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Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty

"Twelve linked stories from a Penobscot boyhood — frozen hair, cursed jars, and love that survives anyway."

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The Gilded Wolves

Roshani Chokshi

"Six outsiders. One impossible heist. Paris, 1889 — and magic is power."

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The Removed

Brandon Hobson

"Fifteen years after police killed their son, a Cherokee family gathers — and the spirit world leans in."

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Libertie

Kaitlyn Greenidge

"Her mother wants her to be a doctor. Libertie wants to know what freedom actually feels like."

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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."

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Trail of Lightning

Rebecca Roanhorse

"The world ended. Dinétah survived — and its monsters need killing."

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The Wedding Date

Jasmine Guillory

"Stuck in a lift with a stranger. Leaving it with a fake date to a wedding."

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Son of a Trickster

Eden Robinson

"Jared's just trying to survive high school. Then the ravens start talking."

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A Princess in Theory

Alyssa Cole

"Those "you are betrothed to an African prince" emails? For Naledi, they turn out to be true."

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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."

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The Lesser Blessed

Richard Van Camp

"A Tłı̨chǫ teenager, a new kid in town, and one unforgettable northern winter."

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Moon of the Crusted Snow

Waubgeshig Rice

"When the power dies, an Anishinaabe community rediscovers how to survive winter — and outsiders come knocking."

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Rebel

Beverly Jenkins

"Reconstruction New Orleans, a Northern volunteer, and the man who fishes her out of the bayou."

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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."

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Salt Houses

Hala Alyan

"Four generations of a Palestinian family, scattered by war, held together by memory."

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The Kiss Quotient

Helen Hoang

"She approaches kissing like calculus — so she hires a professional tutor."

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The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

"The first Black explorer of America finally tells his own story."

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Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar

"A son, a father, and an America that promised more than it gave."

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Recipe for Persuasion

Sonali Dev

"Her first love walks onto her reality cooking show — twelve years after she broke both their hearts."

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Crescent

Diana Abu-Jaber

"Love simmers in a Lebanese café in Los Angeles — one dish at a time."

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Ayesha At Last

Uzma Jalaluddin

"She writes poetry. He judges her for it. Toronto’s Muslim community will enjoy the show."

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Long Shot

Kennedy Ryan

"The night before the biggest game of his life, he meets her in a bar. Then she marries someone else."

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The Shadow of the Crescent Moon

Fatima Bhutto

"One morning. Three brothers. Three different Pakistans."

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The Astonishing Color of After

Emily X.R. Pan

"After her mother dies, Leigh knows one impossible thing: her mother is now a bird."

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Mem

Bethany C. Morrow

"In 1920s Montreal, memories can be extracted — and one of them refuses to fade."

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Starfish

Akemi Dawn Bowman

"Kiko paints what she cannot say out loud. This year, she finally leaves the house that silences her."

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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

"Lovecraft's most racist story, retold — and reclaimed — by a Black hustler in 1920s Harlem."

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Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Cassandra Khaw

"A wedding party. A haunted Heian mansion. A bride buried in its walls."

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When Dimple Met Rishi

Sandhya Menon

"Their parents arranged it. Dimple threw her iced coffee at it. Summer had other plans."

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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."

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The Knights of Breton Court

Maurice Broaddus

"King Arthur rises again — on the streets of Indianapolis."

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Grace

Natashia Deón

"A murdered mother watches over the daughter she never got to raise."

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Love, Hate & Other Filters

Samira Ahmed

"Maya dreams in film scenes. America keeps recasting her as a suspect."

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Saints and Misfits

S.K. Ali

"Everyone calls him a saint of the community. Janna knows exactly what he did."

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A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

"A diary washes ashore in Canada. Inside: a Tokyo schoolgirl's last words?"

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Dial A for Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto

"One accidental death. Four meddling aunties. The biggest wedding of the year."

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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."

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The Atlas of Reds and Blues

Devi S. Laskar

"As she bleeds on her driveway, a woman replays the thousand cuts that led here."

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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."

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Like a Love Story

Abdi Nazemian

"New York, 1989: three teenagers, one closet, and a revolution set to Madonna."

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A Burning

Megha Majumdar

"One Facebook post. Three lives. A country on fire."

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The Worst Best Man

Mia Sosa

"Her dream contract depends on the best man who helped wreck her wedding."

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Yesterday Is History

Kosoko Jackson

"His new liver came with a side effect: time travel. And a boy in 1969."

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The Gravity of Us

Phil Stamper

"His dad joins the Mars programme, reality cameras move in — and Cal falls for the astronaut’s son."

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Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

"A Laguna Pueblo veteran comes home from war — healing lies in the old stories."

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House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

"The Pulitzer winner that announced Native American literature to the world."

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Rez Ball

Byron Graves

"The whole rez shows up for the Warriors. This season, Tre plays for his brother."

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Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi (tr. Marilyn Booth)

"Three sisters, one Omani village, and a country transforming beneath their feet."

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Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Julie C. Dao

"Every villain has a first chapter. This is the Evil Queen’s."

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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."

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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."

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Elatsoe

Darcie Little Badger

"Ellie can raise the ghosts of animals. Her dead cousin just asked her to solve his murder."

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Frankenstein in Baghdad

Ahmed Saadawi (tr. Jonathan Wright)

"A junk dealer stitches a body from bomb-blast remains. Then it stands up."

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The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa (tr. Stephen Snyder)

"On an unnamed island, things disappear — and remembering them is a crime."