Our 2025 Editors’ Picks are here! Contributing editor Stephanie Wong recommends Wanting by @clairejia.bsky.social.

honored to be an @npr.org favorite book of 2025 🤩 if you’re looking for a great holiday gift for someone you love or have a crush on or want to befriend or are embroiled in a one-sided parasocial frenemyship with please consider gifting WANTING!!!!!! 🩷🏡 tinhouse.com/book/wanting/

I wrote on this game and it’s coming out in 2026!!!!!! 💐🌺🌹🌷🌸🌻🌼🥀

thank you electric literature and @wendyjfox.bsky.social for reading WANTING and writing so beautifully about it!!! 🥹💓

tonight I gloriously end my tour in San Francisco at green apple @booksonthepark.bsky.social at 7 pm!!!!!!!!!!! in conversation with @jonvhickey.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!! I demand your presence

extremely belated bc I forgot my bluesky password but EVERYONE LISTEN TO ME AND BRAD GAB!!!!!! WE ARE VERY HILARIOUS AND PERSONABLE!!!!!!!!

see you tonight Chicago!!!!!!! 6:30 city lit books ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

definitely felt like the annoying baby brother of this group 😇 thank you literary hub!!!!!!!

📚 This month, the Otherppl Book Club is reading WANTING, the excellent debut novel by @clairejia.bsky.social, available from @tinhouse.bsky.social . 🎧 Stay tuned for my conversation with Claire on the podcast later this month.

we end the east coast tour in Greenville, SC TOMORROW AT M JUDSON AT 7:30!!!!!!!!!!! COME THROUGH!!!!!!!! Tickets here 🩷 mjudsonbooks.com/event/books-...

DC WE TALK WANTING TONIGHT AT 7 PM @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social H STREET LOCATION WITH NINI BERNDT

PHILLY TONIGHT 6:30 PM HEAD HOUSE BOOKS WITH @eshanisurya.bsky.social SEE YOU THERE!!!!!!!!!!!

NYC! SEE YOU TONIGHT AT THE STRAND!!!!!! 7 PM! DOORS OPEN AT 6:30!!! come listen to me and @tingrolls.bsky.social gab all things wanting!!! 🩷🩷🩷 get your tickets now if you haven't already!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/claire-jia...

SEE YOU TONIGHT SOUTH HADLEY 7 PM ODYSSEY BOOKSHOP

Who am I seeing in Boston tonight!!!!!!! 7 pm Porter Square Books Cambridge!!!!!!

I’M OFF ON TOUR!!!!! THE SUMMER OF WANTING BEGINS!!!!! TONIGHT in Portland, Maine!!! Here’s what’s coming up first this week 🥰🚙 7/7: Portland/PRINT 7 pm 7/8: Cambridge/Porter Square Books 7 pm  7/9: South Hadley/Odyssey Bookshop 7 pm 7/11: NYC/Strand 7 pm More details at tinyurl.com/mryxmd5w 🩷🏡🌷

So excited to keep digging into @clairejia.bsky.social’s WANTING, out this week from @tinhouse.bsky.social! I’m loving it so far—this is clearly complex girlhood relationships done right! 💓🌸

Happy Pub Day! 🏊‍♀️💜 Wanting by Claire Jia @clairejia.bsky.social is out today! “Dives deep into the layers of envy, regret & longing that pierce through even the strongest friendships.” —⭐Harper’s Bazaar, A Best Book of Summer tinhouse.com/book/wanting/

my novel is out today. here I am, holding the last draft and the first draft, 10 years apart. thank you, thank you all for reading 🏡🩷

Wanting: A Novel by @clairejia.bsky.social‬ is almost here! 🏊‍♀️ 💜 🏊‍♀️ 💜 An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of 2025! Read more & order now! tinhouse.com/book/wanting/

i made a front-facing video. hope you’re all happy now

join @clairejia.bsky.social and me as we misbehave live on @therumpus.net’s IG account in an hour!!!! 😼😼😼

come watch me and greg mania talk my new book and life at large at the rumpus IG on tuesday june 10!!! 🥰

one week from today! ✨ so excited to chat with the marvel that is @clairejia.bsky.social on #ShowUsYourDesk, LIVE from @therumpus.net IG on tues, july 10th @ 6pm ET/3pm PT! join us or i’ll cry homophobia!!!!!!! 🪩

Join us Tuesday, June 10 at 6 pm ET / 3 pm PT on Instagram LIVE for the latest Show Us Your Desk! ‪@gregmania.bsky.social‬'s next desk belongs to @clairejia.bsky.social‬, author of Wanting (@tinhouse.bsky.social‬).

8 hours before barnes & noble 25% off preorder sale ends! sooo: wanted to explain why preorders are important! more preorders = larger orders from booksellers, better placement in bookstores, and higher chances of landing on a bestseller list!! pls make WANTING a bestseller! 🥹🩷📚

ah, thursday, my favorite day. when the weekend brims on the horizon and it’s not yet too late to finish all the shit you should’ve done tuesday

Want to be one of the first to read the searing debut novel Wanting by @clairejia.bsky.social ?❤️‍🔥 Alexandra Chang calls it "a mesmerizing exploration of ambition, self-delusion, and the complicated bonds of friendship." ❤️‍🔥Request now! forms.gle/NKrG5buaX8A4...

harper’s bazaar says u should read my book on the beach this summer!!! 🩷🌊

san bernadino would be a beautiful name for a baby girl

please feast your eyes upon the amazing cover for WANTING!!!!!!!! designed by beth steidle 🏡🩷

feeling so thankful for my literal decade-long incredible agent and friend Sylvie Carr who made baby 22-year-old Claire think she could publish a book 🥺WANTING hits shelves July 1, 2025 🩷🏡📕available for preorder now🫨❣️

mentally i have been here for 4 days