Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Dream Count. Knopf. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593802724. 368p. $30. LITERARY FICTION

A new novel by award winner Adichie, whose Half of a Yellow Sun won the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award and whose Americanah won the National Book Critics Circle Award. No details on the plot are currently available, but expect high demand.

Aliu, Xhenet. Everybody Says It’s Everything. Random. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593732274. 320p. $29. LITERARY FICTION

Award winner Aliu (Brass) writes about adopted twins who grow up in the U.S. in the 1990s, disconnected from their Albanian heritage. As their lives unfold, their roots, family, and the war in Kosovo twist and blend to shape their bonds.

Brown, Natasha. Universality. Random. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593977309. 176p. $24. LITERARY FICTION

The latest from Brown (Assembly), named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, stresses the power of words and the way rhetoric works. It is about an illegal rave, a brutal attack, the journalist who tries to uncover what happened, and the questions surrounding what is said and how.

Castleberry, Brian. The Californians. Mariner. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780063213333. 336p. $28.99. LITERARY FICTION

Castleberry (Nine Shiny Objects, longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award) offers an epic spanning from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the 1980s NYC art scene up to today’s NFT market, as three characters spin out their lives, trying to create—and become—something. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Chong, Jinwoo. I Leave It Up to You. Ballantine. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593727058. 320p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Chong (Flux, shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award and optioned by Sony) pens a semiautobiographical family novel about Jack Jr., who awakens from a two-year coma. Unmoored, he returns home to the Korean American enclave of Fort Lee, NJ, and his parents’ struggling sushi restaurant, where he finds love and second chances.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Theft. Riverhead. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593852606. 304p. $30. LITERARY FICTION

Nobel Prize winner Gurnah (Afterlives) returns with a story about three people coming of age in Tanzania during a period of global change when even a sleepy, quiet spot on the map can become a place of tourism and startling changes.

McCann, Colum. Twist. Random. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593241738. 256p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

National Book Award winner McCann (Let the Great World Spin) writes a new novel about Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, whose piece about underwater cables becomes the vehicle to explore the fundamental questions of humanity.

Nadler, Stuart. Rooms for Vanishing. Dutton. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593475461. 464p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Nadler, a 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Wise Men and The Inseparables, returns with a novel it has taken 10 years to write, a prismatic epic about a Jewish family from Vienna, the Altermans, each of whom has been inexplicably splintered into varying futures, separate from each other.

Peters, Torrey. Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories. Random. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593595640. 304p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Peters, a PEN/Hemingway Award winner for Detransition, Baby, offers a new book consisting of a novel and three novellas, one featuring a lumberjack dance, another spotlighting a secret romance between roommates, all focused on identity.

St. James, Emily. Woodworking. Zando: Crooked Media Reads. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781638931478. 368p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

St. James debuts with a story about Erica, a trans high school teacher who is 35 years old and lives in a small South Dakota town. One of her students, 17-year-old Abigail, is the only other trans person she knows. Their unlikely friendship powers the novel and both characters forward.

Zink, Nell. Sister Europe. Knopf. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593534915. 208p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Zink, longlisted for the National Book Award for Mislaid, offers a zany short novel set in the upper reaches of Berlin society, in which a disparate group of people gather for a failed dinner party and set in motion connections and observations.