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Nova Ren Suma is the critically acclaimed author of six novels and the co-editor of one short story anthology.

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Wake the Wild Creatures

A new novel by Nova Ren Suma

Coming May 6, 2025, in hardcover & ebook from Little, Brown
Audiobook coming May 6, 2025, from Hachette Audio

Already one of the most acclaimed novels of 2025, this extraordinary, timely, and must-read novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nova Ren Suma explores young women’s freedom and rage as Talia plots her way back to her hidden mountaintop home after her mother’s arrest for murder.​

Three years ago, Talia lived happily in the ruins of the Neves, a once-grand hotel in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains, with her mother Pola and their community of like-minded women. Some came to the Neves to escape cruel men, others to hide from the law, but all found safety and connection in their haven high above civilization, cloaked by a mysterious mist that kept intruders away. But as their numbers grew, complications followed, and everything came crashing down the night electric lights pierced the forest. Uniformed men arrested Pola, calling her a murderer and a fugitive, and Talia was taken away.

Now sixteen, Talia has been forced to live with family she barely knows and fit into a world scarred by misogyny, capitalism, disconnection from nature . . . everything the women of the Neves stood against. She has one goal: to return to the Neves. But as Talia awaits a signal from her mother, questions arise. Who betrayed her community, and what is she avoiding about her own role in its collapse? Is it truly magic that keeps the hotel so hidden? And what does it mean to embrace being her mother’s daughter? With the help of an unexpected ally, Talia must find her way to answers, face a mother who’s often kept her at arm’s length, and try to reach the refuge she lost—if the mist hasn’t swallowed her path home.

Fierce and lyrical, unsettling and tender, Wake the Wild Creatures marks the long-awaited return of one of the most distinctive voices in young adult literature.

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Foreshadow:

Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading & Writing YA

With essays on technique and craft by editors Emily X.R. Pan & Nova Ren Suma

Available in paperback from Algonquin YR

Created by New York Times bestselling authors Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, and based on and expanded from the online project foreshadowya.com, Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA is so much more than a short story collection. A trove of unforgettable fiction makes up the beating heart of this book, and the accompanying essays offer an ode to young adult literature, as well as practical advice to writers. This collection features YA short stories written by new voices Tanya Aydelott, Tanvi Berwah, Gina Chen, Linda Cheng, Mayra Cuevas, Nora Elghazzawi, Desiree S. Evans, Rachel Hylton, Adriana Marachlian, Sophie Meridien, Maya Prasad, Flor Salcedo, and Joanna Truman.

Featuring: Afterword and craft talks by Nova Ren Suma

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A Room Away from the Wolves

A novel by Nova Ren Suma

Available in hardcover, paperback, & ebook from Algonquin YR
Audio available from Recorded Books

After too many lies and with trouble on her heels, Bina finds herself on the side of the road, the city of her dreams calling for her. She has an old suitcase, a fresh black eye, and a room waiting for her at Catherine House, a young women’s residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history, a vow of confidentiality, and dark, magical secrets. As Bina’s lease begins to run out, and nightmare and memory get tangled, she will be forced to face the terrible truth of why she’s come to Catherine House and what it will cost for her to leave . . . A Room Away from the Wolves is a spellbinding ghost story about who deserves a second chance, how we lie to those around us and ourselves, and what lengths girls will go to in order to save each other.

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The Walls Around Us

A novel by Nova Ren Suma

Available in hardcover, paperback, & ebook from Algonquin YR
Audio available from Recorded Books
Spanish language edition from Penguin Random House

The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices—one still living and one dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old ballerina days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement. On the inside, within the walls of a girls’ juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom. Tying these two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries: What really happened on the night Orianna stepped between Violet and her tormentors? Will Amber and Violet and Orianna ever get the justice they deserve—in this life or another?

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17 & Gone

A novel by Nova Ren Suma

Available in paperback & ebook from Penguin Random House

Seventeen-year-old Lauren is having visions of girls who have gone missing. And all these girls have just one thing in common—they are 17 and gone without a trace. As Lauren struggles to shake these waking nightmares, impossible questions demand urgent answers: Why are the girls speaking to Lauren? How can she help them? And… is she next? As Lauren searches for clues, everything begins to unravel, and when a brush with death lands her in the hospital, a shocking truth emerges, changing everything. With complexity and richness, Nova Ren Suma serves up a beautiful, visual, fresh interpretation of what it means to be lost.

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Imaginary Girls

A novel by Nova Ren Suma

Available in paperback & ebook from Penguin Random House
Audio available from Recorded Books

Chloe’s older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can’t be contained or caged. When a night with Ruby’s friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the body of her classmate London Hayes left floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from Ruby. But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns to town two years later, deadly surprises await. As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has deeply hidden away, the fragile line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of sisterhood.

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Dani Noir / Fade Out

A novel by Nova Ren Suma

Fade Out is the paperback version of Dani Noir
Available in paperback from Simon Pulse

It’s summer and Dani has been abandoned by everyone she knows. Her dad left, her mom is all preoccupied being broken-hearted, and her closest friend just moved away. Basically it’s the end of the world. At least she has the Little Art, her favorite local arthouse movie theater. Dani loves all the old black-and-white noir thrillers with their damsels in distress and their low camera angles. It also doesn’t hurt that Jackson, the guy who works the projection reel, is super cute and nice and funny. And completely off-limits, of course—he’s a friend’s boyfriend, and they are totally, utterly perfect together. But one day, Dani stumbles across a shocking secret about Jackson—a secret too terrible for her to keep. She finds herself caught in the middle of a love triangle with enough drama to rival the noir-est film noir she’s ever seen.

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For short works by Nova Ren Suma, see the anthologies page.