Crazy Rich Asians? Canadian writer Lindsay Wong, author of the bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, has your answer. In My Summer of Love and Misfortune, Iris Wang’s summer is off to a rough start. She didn’t get into any colleges, her boyfriend is cheating on her and she’s struggling to understand her Chinese-American identity. So Iris’s parents send her to “find herself” in Beijing, where she gets swept up in the opulent world of the city’s elite.

At this point, are you even a buzzy debut author (out of Ireland, no less) if you don’t get compared to Sally Rooney? In Naoise Dolan‘s case, the comparison actually tracks – though make no mistake: She has a voice that’s all her own. Exciting Times follows Ava, an Irish ex-pat teaching English to rich children in Hong Kong, who finds herself caught up in a love triangle between Julien, a banker who likes to spend money on her, and Edith, a lawyer who romances her with flowers and the theatre. With a keen eye, Dolan examines the transactions that fill our lives as Ava is forced to make a choice: Does she go for easy comfort with Julian, or leap into the unknown with Edith?

In her page-turner of a debut, L.A.-based writer Jean Kyoung Frazier puts a unique spin on the coming-of-age tale. Pizza Girl follows an intentionally unnamed narrator who is 18 years old, pregnant and working as a pizza delivery person. She soon becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home who is new to the neighbourhood, as their lives become intertwined in strange and heartbreaking ways.

Every once in a while, you read a book and just know that you’ll read whatever else they writer. If you’re a fan of thrillers, Elizabeth Kay is one of those writers. Her eerie page-turner, Seven Lies, is a confession – Jane’s confession, to be exact. Jane used to share everything with her BFF Marnie. But when Marnie marries a man that she doesn’t like, Jane starts lying to her friend about how she feels about him. One lie, of course, leads to another, which eventually, somehow leads to…the death of Marnie’s husband.

Jasmine Guillory has been on the top of every romance lover’s to-read list since her 2018 debut, The Wedding Date. Her latest, Party of Two, is no exception. The swoon-worthy tale tells the story of Olivia Monroe, an ambitious lawyer who isn’t concerned about dating – especially not a politician. But when she gets swept up in a tantalizing flirtation with a hotshot junior senator, she takes a chance. As the two get more serious, Olivia is pushed into the public spotlight and the scrutinizing eye of the media questioning her suitability as a girlfriend, forcing to her ask: Is their relationship worth all this trouble?

There’s a reason Marian Keyes is the internationally bestselling author of 13 (soon to be 14) books. The Irish writer is beloved for her ability to turn out page-turner after page-turner and bringing levity to the heaviest of topics. Grown Ups fits right into her canon, sure to delight fans. The book follows the glam Casey family, made up of three brothers – Johnny, Ed and Liam – and their picture-perfect families who do everything together. But when Ed’s wife, Cara, gets a concussion, she can’t keep her thoughts, feelings or secrets to herself. And what happens when years of family drama bubble to the surface? Well, that’s for you to find out.

At long last, Kevin Kwan – a.k.a. the author of the lush Crazy Rich Asians trilogy – is back with his first book since publishing the series’ last novel back in 2017. We have a feeling you’ll need no further convincing to pick it up, but just in case: Sex and Vanity follows Lucie, a young woman torn between the WASP-y side of her father’s family and her Asian heritage. She hates the charming George Zhao the moment she meets him in Capri, and vows to not fall in love with him. But years later, when a now-engaged Lucie runs into George in East Hampton, she can’t help but be drawn to him.

Take a trip back to the ’80s with Amanda Brainerd‘s Age of Consent. Justine and Eve are stuck feeling like outsiders at a Connecticut boarding school. Justine wishes she has the privilege of sophisticated Eve, while Eve longs for Justine’s sexual confidence. After a tumultuous school year, the pair dash off to spend the summer in NYC, joined by Eve’s childhood friend India, where Justine gets pulled into their extravagant worlds. Together, the three friends explore the power that adults hold over them as they are affected by their sexual relationships with older men and must figure out how to assert their independence.

Just when we need another reminder to step away from our phones, in swoops Newfoundland native Eva Crocker. In All I Ask, Stacey is awoken by police pounding on her door who then seize her devices because they’re looking for “illegal digital material.” Shaken, Stacey searches for a way to reclaim her privacy, relying on her tight-knit circle of friends.

Like most twentysomethings, Edie, the protagonist of Raven Leilani‘s sharp and raw Luster, doesn’t quite have her life together. She shares a mediocre apartment in Bushwick, makes plenty of inappropriate sexual choices and is trying to figure out her career as an artist. When she meets digital archivist Eric, a man whose wife has agreed to an open marriage, Raven eventually finds herself falling into his home and family life, becoming a reluctant friend to Eric’s wife and a role model to their adopted daughter – the only Black woman the young girl has ever known.