Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cake | 2007 | Sandra Newman | Buy |
| 2 | The Country of Ice Cream Star | 2014 | Sandra Newman | Buy |
| 3 | The Heavens | 2019 | Sandra Newman | Buy |
| 4 | The Men | 2022 | Sandra Newman | Buy |
| 5 | Julia | 2023 | Sandra Newman | Buy |
Sandra Newman’s standalone novels range across literary and speculative fiction, unified by ambitious premises and stylistic risk-taking. Cake, her debut, is a satirical novel about fame and identity. The Heavens blends time travel with Shakespeare-era London in a story about a woman who may be altering history through her dreams.
Her later novels have drawn the most attention — The Country of Ice Cream Star for its invented language and post-apocalyptic world-building, and Julia for its bold reinterpretation of one of the most famous novels in English. Newman writes with a willingness to take on large ideas and unconventional narrative structures.