An enticing lineup of Winter 2024 Restless Books!

We’re excited to share an early preview of our winter titles with you!

Like all American book-lovers, we’re outraged by the tidal wave of new laws removing books (usually ones that address issues of race, queerness, or minority representation) from schools and libraries. Bothayna Al-Essa’s latest novel, The Book Censor’s Library (coming in January), confronts this authoritarian threat head-on. It’s a perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret libraries, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. Keep fighting the good fight, and keep reading!

In February, just in time for Black History Month, you can be one of the first English-speakers to pick up The Maroons. When it was published in 1844, the book was declared “a threat to public order” and seized by French law enforcement (sound familiar?). Rediscovered in the 1970s, this salvaged classic is a fervid account of slavery and escape on nineteenth-century Réunion Island, and the only known novel by Black abolitionist and political exile Louis Timagène Houat.

Last, and certainly not least to fans of Korean literature in translation, we’ll welcome March with a fresh offering from prize-winning author Kim Hye-jin (Concerning My Daughter, 2022). Her new novel, Counsel Culture, is the contemplative and superbly-crafted tale of a woman scapegoated by sudden tragedy, and the unexpected paths she must wander in search of redemption.

Learn more about these titles below, and if you’re a reviewer, librarian, or bookseller, please follow the link to request electronic or printed galleys—we’d love to hear from you!

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