18 New Page-Turners Our Editors Couldn't Put Down This Year, From Thrillers to Romance Novels

"Luster: A Novel ($23, originally $26) is sublime. It gave me a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach the entire time I was reading it, but in the best possible way. The writing is visceral and honest and funny — there's a scene with lobster bisque that I swear I could smell and feel because it was so well-written. Leilani writes about sex and love and being a young woman in today's world and relationships in a way that cuts to the bone, and her discussion of sex and taboo and race is honest in a way that I don't see often. This book will probably make you squirm — it did for me — but it's definitely a good thing." — Bryce Aston, copy editor