Here are our picks for this month’s 20 new books most worth your time.
Creatures, by Crissy Van Meter
A dead whale.
An absent mother’s sudden reemergence.

Simon & Schuster; Graydon House; Wattpad Books; HarperCollins; Knopf Doubleday; Random House; Penguin; Algonquin Books; Riverhead; Ballantine; Knopf
At last, here comes the sequel.
And things get weirder from there.
Indeed, this book about female identity already boasts raves from Sally Rooney, Melissa Broder, and more.

Algonquin Books

Riverhead

Knopf

Flatiron Books

Ballantine

Counterpoint

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Graydon House

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Random House

Knopf Doubleday

Penguin

Flatiron Books

Simon & Schuster

Wattpad Books

HarperCollins

HarperCollins

Knopf Doubleday

Bloomsbury Publishing

Penguin