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Read an excerpt from Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin

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Read an excerpt from Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin

The following is an excerpt from Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin. She is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan who currently lives in London. She received her masters in creative writing from the University of Oxford and has published three award-winning and bestselling novels. Her next novel, Strange Girls, is her US debut.

Strange Girls is about two estranged friends who are forced to reunite over one feverish weekend and reckon with the choices that tore them apart. It is now available from Dutton.

You can listen to an audiobook excerpt of the book at the bottom of this article. The audiobook is available for purchase here.

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See the cover for Voyagers by Meg Charlton

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See the cover for Voyagers by Meg Charlton

In her debut novel, Voyagers, writer Meg Chalrton introduces readers to Alex and Ana, who vanished decades ago in what was seemingly an alien abduction. Now, grown and distant from one another, they watch as the Signal, a mysterious and extraterrestrial beacon from the far reaches of the universe, contacts the world. Throughout the novel, Charlton explores what friendship looks like at the end of the world and how we confront memory and truth.

Charlton’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Yale Review, Slate, Lux, Atlas Obscura, and Vice, and the anthology Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. Her debut book is available for pre-order now and will be published by Harper on June 16, 2026.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Voyagers, which was designed by Milan Bozic, along with a Q&A with Charlton about its creation.

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6 debut books that Debutiful missed but wish we hadn’t

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6 debut books that Debutiful missed but wish we hadn’t

Of the hundreds of debut books that come out every year, Debutiful founder Adam Vitcavage tries to read and cover as many as he can. However, he misses some knockout debut books. Here are the 2025 books that we missed, but wish we hadn’t.

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See the cover for She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva

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See the cover for She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva

Anna Kovatcheva’s debut novel, She Made Herself a Monster, will be published by Mariner Books on February 10, 2026. The novel is available for pre-order.

Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and received her MFA in fiction from New York University. She Made Herself a Monster was completed while she was in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and has been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of She Made Herself a Monster, designed by Paul Miele-Herndon, alongside a Q&A with Kovatcheva about crafting her haunting debut and the eerie allure of nineteenth-century Bulgaria.

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