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Led by the bestselling author of Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn Books publishes books that are propulsive and culturally incisive. A conversation-starting and gasp-inducing list from one of the great writers of our time.

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Hillman Grad Books

Led by Emmy Award–winner Lena Waithe, Hillman Grad Books highlights the beauty and complexities of underrepresented communities by celebrating us at the center of our own stories, and capturing who we are and what we fight for in worlds near and far.

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Sweet July Books is the publishing arm of Sweet July, Ayesha Curry’s highly successful lifestyle brand. Dedicated to uplifting diverse voices, Sweet July Books publishes fearless works of fiction and nonfiction for the whole family.

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Crooked Media Reads is dedicated to publishing nonfiction and issue-driven fiction that informs, entertains, and inspires action, sparking the debates we need to have right now.  

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Meet Slowburn! Our newest imprint is a home for all things love, spice, angst, longing, and iconic pairings. From dark romance with a dash of humor, to athlete pining, and sweeping romantic fantasies, our books offer fresh takes on the beloved genre.

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Get Lifted Books

Led by John Legend, Mike Jackson, and Ty Stiklorius, Get Lifted Books is an extension of Get Lifted Film Co. and publishes distinct, diverse, and brilliant stories with a focus on Black joy, love, and celebration.

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World Without End

A rich and colorful French graphic novel that has become a word-of-mouth sensation and transformed the way hundreds of thousands of people think about climate change.
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Woodworking

Crooked Media Reads
One of Book Riot’s and The Mary Sue’s 15 Most Anticipated Queer Books of 2025 • One of The Millions’, Kirkus’s, The AV Club’s, Them’s, and LGBTQ Reads’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025 • One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s, Autostraddle’s, LA Times’s, and BookBrowse’s Most Anticipated Reads of March 2025 • One of Bustle’s Best Books of Spring 2025 • Matty Maggiacomo’s March Book Club Pick An unforgettable and heartwarming book-club debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students.
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Scythe & Sparrow

From the international bestselling author of the TikTok sensations Butcher & Blackbird and Leather & Lark comes the epic conclusion to the Ruinous Love Trilogy-an opposites-attract dark romantic comedy full of chemistry, chaos, and spice.
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Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet

One of Town & Country’s Best Ghost Books That Will Keep You Up All Night and A Must-Read Book of Winter 2025 • One of Book Riot’s 2024 Books to Add to Your TBR • A Nerd Daily and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Release • An Autostraddle and People Most Anticipated Release of December 2024 • A Glamour Best Book for Book Clubs 2024 “Everything I want in a queer romance.” —Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself In this “unlikely romance for the ages” (Camryn Garrett), a ghostwriter is handed the gig of a lifetime, except there’s a catch: the client, a closeted A-list actor finally ready to come out in his memoir, is an actual ghost—and the sparks flying between the men are becoming a little too real . . .
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How to Tell When We Will Die

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“A book for the moment and for the ages. It’s questing, pissed, propulsive, funny, generous, pervy, and original—full of love and pain in all their entwined glory.” —Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts WINNER OF THE AMBER HOLLIBAUGH AWARD FOR LGBTQ+ SOCIAL JUSTICE WRITING The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.
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Honeysuckle and Bone

Sweet July Books
On the run from her own dark secrets, a teen girl becomes the nanny for a prestigious family on their extravagant Jamaican estate—but things aren't quite as they seem, and she quickly discovers even paradise may be haunted.  
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Only For The Week

The buzzy, viral sensation Only For The Week, is the first book in Natasha Bishop’s The Forever Falling series, featuring Black love, messy family dynamics, sexy banter, and sweet and spicy romance.
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The Librarians of Lisbon

“A fast-paced roller-coaster ride of deceit, espionage, danger, and―above all―the unbreakable bonds of friendship. This tense page-turner peels back new layers in the complexities of World War II espionage as it hurtles toward its satisfying finish.” ―New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel
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The Story of the Forest

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize • A Parade Best Book of the Year • A Paste Most Anticipated Historical Fiction for Fall “[Sarah Jessica Parker] is curating as a publisher some of the most beautiful novels that I read. And this one, in love with it. Don't miss it.” ―Adriana Trigiani, You Are What You Read “Romance, tragedy, war, the horrors of the pogroms, business dynasties, and more make this closely observed novel inspired somewhat by Grant’s family story into a page turner.” —Parade
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The Killing Fields of East New York

Gillian Flynn Books
In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields.
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Lights Out

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?
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Hungerstone

A Rolling Stone 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of the Year • A Scary Mommy 11 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Them 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Goodreads Editors' Top Pick of the Month • A Town & Country Must Read Book of the Winter • A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Fable Most Anticipated Read of the Year • A Goodreads Readers’ Most Anticipated Horror Novel of the Year • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of the Year A compulsive feminist reworking of Carmilla, the queer novella that inspired Dracula. “Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire. This is everything I dream of in a novel.” —Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of  A Study in Drowningand Lady Macbeth
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