WISHLIST

Commercial and Upmarket Fiction

Quirky, feel-good, voice-driven

Crazy Rich Asians, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Lily and the Octopus, Goodbye Vitamin, Real Americans, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Beautyland, 200 Monas, The Road to Tender Hearts, Nothing to See Here, All My Puny Sorrows, The Wedding People

Select Literary Fiction

Never without propulsion

Some all-time favorites of mine include The English Patient, Martyr!,The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Salvage the Bones, The Sympathizer, All This Could Be Different, Confessions of the Fox, A Little Life, Creation Lake, Geek Love, The Parisian, Marlena, The New Life, Our Wives Under the Sea, The Tsar of Love & Techno

LGBTQ+ Narratives

Detransition Baby, Fruit Fly, All This Could Be Different, Confessions of the Fox, A Little Life, The New Life, Our Wives Under the Sea, The Thirty Names of Night, Old Enough

Suspense and Thriller

Propulsive, twisty, inventive, fresh

Razorblade Tears, My Sister the Serial Killer, These Violent Delights, You, Nerve Damage, Names Have Been Changed, Defending Jacob, Caught Stealing, The Drift, Tell No One, Killer Potential, Portrait of a Thief, The Shards, The Chain, Bright Young Women, Gone Girl

Mystery and Crime

A new kind of detective story

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Harlem Shuffle, The Trees, The Name of the Rose, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Notes on an Execution, The Spellman Files, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Devil in a Blue Dress, Bluebird Bluebird, Winter Counts, We Are All the Same in the Dark, I Have Some Questions for You, Slow Horses, Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Eyre Affair, Long Bright River, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, Thursday Murder Club, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Horror

Disgusting, incisive social lenses

Our Share of Night, Bunny, The Vegetarian, Death in Her Hands, Meddling Kids, White Is For Witching, The Changeling, The Library at Mount Char, The Stand, Lapvona, The Eyes Are the Best Part, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Only Good Indians, Between Two Fires, The Other Black Girl, The Bright Lands, Mexican Gothic, The Cabin in the Woods, Narrow Rooms

Romantic Comedy

Up-publishable, high concept, often queer

Into the Blue, The Dead Romantics, Slippery Creatures, Red White and Royal Blue, Atmosphere, The Prospects

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Humanistic , with crossover potential

The Tainted Cup, Little Big, Piranesi, Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven, The Book of Strange New Things, The Book of Love, The Children, Walk the Vanished Earth, The Passage, How High We Go In the Dark, The Fifth Season, A Stranger in Olondria, Water Moon, The Bear & The Nightingale, The Spear Cuts Through Water, Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Piranesi, The Magicians, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Dark Matter