Catapult imprint: 36 books

The second anthology in the annual series continues Catapult's landmark publishing partnership with PEN America and features the best debut short fiction published in the US and Canada each year. PEN America will award the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers prize of $2000 to...

A necessary, unprecedented new collection, published in a landmark publishing partnership with PEN America, featuring the best debut short fiction published in the US and Canada each year. PEN America will award the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers prize of $2000 to 12 writers,...

de Kretser is a master of immersive detail; she tells her story as much through a series of intimately recalled, gorgeously memorable images as she does her charming cast of characters The Life to Come weaves together the loosely connected lives of characters, roaming widely across the globe...

One of the first emergency room specialists reflects on a career full of mysteries, disappointments, and redeeming triumphs in this fast-paced and enjoyable memoir Each chapter is a succinct and moving anecdote, even as Seward weaves his own story and wider philosophical and ethical questions...

The first Arabic book to win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first female Omani writer to be translated into English Previous winners of the Man Booker International Prize include Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, and The Vegetarian by Han Kang Celestial Bodies invites readers...

A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism • A November 2016 American Booksellers Association Indie Next List Selection • A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 • A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016 “An entrancing attempt to catch what falls between [literary...

Charismatic Karl Geary is a talented writer to watch; translation rights for Montpelier Parade have already been sold for 15 languages, and in the U.K., it is Harvill Secker’s lead title for 2017 after a 5-house auction. Geary, an Irish-born American, is well-connected in the New York arts/music...

Paris, present day: a solar eclipse sweeps a seventy-five-year-old man back to the heart of Iran before the Revolution of 1979, immersing us in an unforgettable family saga with humor and history To Keep the Sun Alive brings a large extended family fully to life in this mesmerizing story that...

An Official Belletrist Book Pick An American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick Selected to Best of Summer Reading Lists by Parade, Elle, NYLON, PopSugar, The Millions, PureWow, Women.com, Hearst Media, Bitch Media, Read it Forward “Storylines and twists abound. But action is secondary...

Winner of the Costa Novel Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kirkus, and Los Angeles Review Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers...

A Buzzfeed Best Fiction Book of 2017 • An Entropy magazine Best Book of 2017 “Jess Arndt’s Large Animals is wildly original, even as it joins in with the classics of loaded, outlaw literature. Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn, this is an electric debut.”...

[A] heartbreaking novel about the devastations of severed attachments.” —NPR For Clay Blackall, a lifelong resident of Providence, Rhode Island, the place has become an obsession. Here live the only people who can explain what happened to his brother, Eli, whose suicide haunts this heartbreaking,...

Market Smart, literary-inclined avid readers who recommend books Parents, book clubs and discussion groups, particularly ones centered around family book clubs Those interested in politics around death with dignity movement People coping with the experience of grief, particularly...

Following the success of his novel Reservoir 13 (an ABA Indie Next List Pick, Amazon Best Book of the Year, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the recipient of rave reviews by critics like James Wood in The New Yorker), The Reservoir Tapes returns to the novel's setting in an English village...