10 Must-Read New Books Out This Week

The sequel to Kalynn Bayron’s This Poison Heart is finally here! In This Wicked Fate, Briseis must fully embrace her magical heritage — and a family she has never met — to save her mother from Hecate’s clutches.

Ten years ago, Kat lost everything to the chicanery of one woman — a woman who’s just returned to town under a new name. At first, Kat is determined to have her revenge. But as she learns more about the woman, Kat wonders if she’s had her pegged all wrong.

Carli is doing everything she can to make it big as a singer-songwriter — while also keeping up with her day job at a major media company. But when she meets Tau, an up-and-coming musician who’s repped by her employer, her personal and professional lives begins to blur.

At just 19 years old, Blair and Jason are extremely young to be working as smokejumpers for the Forest Service. As doubts mount about their fitness to serve, Blair begins making riskier and riskier moves to prove herself.

In a world where the color of a person’s blood determines everything about their life, three young women — two whose places were secretly swapped, and a third who hails from the kingdom’s lowest caste — fight to build a better world.

This debut novel follows a loose assortment of young people — Judy, Meghan, Cassie, Caleb, Miles, and Tez — who strike out on adventures across the country in the 1990s. Twenty years later, they each find themselves grappling with the repercussions.

Set in 1980s-era Long Island, June Gervais’ debut follows Gina, a teenager who’s initiated into the world of tattooing by her older brother, Dominic. When Gina falls in love with another girl, she feels a rising pressure to choose between her love life and her burgeoning career.

As a series of disasters befall the eponymous village in Ottessa Moshfegh’s latest, a corrupt priest and a cruel lord leverage religious pressure to further oppress the peasants under their control.

Set in the same world as The Wolf and the Woodsman, Ava Reid’s new novel centers on three rebellious young witches. The trio defies their xenophobic, isolationist father by making secret journeys into the nearby city, where they mingle with the people he so despises.

From the author of the Lola Starke novels comes In the Dark We Forget, a story about an amnesiac woman who pursues her lost memories — only to learn that she may have had something to do with her parents’ mysterious disappearance.