Instruction Manual for Future Lover, Madeline Garfinkle‘s debut novel, is a sharp, funny exploration of modern dating, ...

Horror is having a moment. Maybe it always has been, but now it’s creeping into the literary mainstream. Genres have bled into one another, and writers are doing incredibly exciting things. Horror isn ...

All Good Men, the debut short story collection by Libby Flores, is an unflinching exploration of masculinity, vulnerability, and the consequences of the choices men make. Across stories of love, ...

What makes a great short story collection? In Debutiful’s latest Q&A series, Inside the Collection, short story writers will ...

Do you ever have a particular vibe you just love in art and media, and then realize that there’s a common throughline for why you love these particular songs, stories, artworks? What began with a gif ...

Work Lunch by Lee Bains is a captivating debut book of poetry that centers food as much more than sustenance – it is ...

Charlotte, the debut novel by Elizabeth Ferris, is a historical reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s life during the turbulent ...

Brenda LaTorre’s debut novel, Bruja’s Nest, follows Yolanda, a teenager growing up in a household of abuse and disorder. When her mother sends her to work as a servant at the Fernández De la Rosa ...

Wardzala’s Another Name for Red has some of the most harrowing fiction I’ve ever read. The hyper-sexualization of Native ...

I read more debut books this year than ever before. My general process is to read a handful of pages for every book that comes my way. From there, I decide to finish about a dozen per month to curate ...

When I sit down to make this list, I start with a blank Word document and start listing the books I’ve read that just pop into my head. These are the ones I can’t stop thinking about. The writers who ...

Last year, after the Best Debut Books of 2022 came out, someone asked me what makes a debut book stand out. I responded, like I often do on the podcast, that it’s all about the vibe. Does it make me ...