Need a good read to accom­pa­ny you this win­ter? Well, book no fur­ther: these thir­teen new titles — which cov­er sub­jects like queer­ness across bor­ders, matri­lin­eal ties, and the mak­ing of Super­man—are sure to keep you on your toes, and also off your feet.

The Diaries of Franz Kaf­ka by Franz Kaf­ka; Ross Ben­jamin, trans.

The 12th Com­mand­ment by Daniel Torday

Code Name Sap­phire by Pam Jenoff

My Last Inno­cent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin

Kün­stlers in Par­adise by Cath­leen Schine

Sim­ple Gim­pl: The Defin­i­tive Bilin­gual Edi­tion by Isaac Bashe­vis Singer; Liana Finck, illus.; Saul Bel­low, trans.

The Woman Beyond the Sea by Sar­it Yishai-Levi; Gilah Kahn-Hoff­mann, trans. 

Kyra Lisse is a writer and edi­tor from the Philadel­phia area. Her work has been pub­lished in or is forth­com­ing from Ghost City Review, Sky Island Jour­nal, SWWIM, New Voic­es, and Assay: A Jour­nal of Non­fic­tion Stud­ies, among oth­er places. Kyra cur­rent­ly lives in Lan­cast­er, PA.