Josh Silver’s Fruit Fly is this summer’s surprise breakout hit — and given its dark horse status, it’s also proving difficult for readers to get their hands on it. With the title backordered at bookstores and the library waitlist growing ever longer, fill the Fruit Fly-shaped space on your bookshelf with one of these new and noteworthy reads.
If you’re craving a cautionary tale of characters telling other people’s stories…
Like This, But Funnier by Hallie Cantor
I Know the Ants by Lang Leav
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein
Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
The Mythmakers by Keziah Weir
If you’re looking for no-holds-barred narratives + queer representation…
No God but Us by Bobuq Sayed
George Falls Through Time by Ryan Collett
The Iridescents: Stories by Emrys Donaldson
Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler
Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Carrying by Samantha Josephs
If you’re drawn to juicy covers you could sink your teeth into…
Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma
Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh
The Future Perfect by Cay Kim
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio
Bad Fruit by Ella King
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
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