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1960s & '70s

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So Many Stars

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

by Caro De Robertis

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Award-winning novelist Caro De Robertis offers a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of queer and trans elders of color, from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens to tell their stories of ...

Murderland

Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

by Caroline Fraser

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic ...

The Usual Desire to Kill

A Novel

by Camilla Barnes

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter—for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.

A Private Man

by Stephanie Sy-Quia

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A debut novel inspired by the true story of the author's grandparents, tracing the slow-burn love story between a Catholic priest and a progressive theology teacher across Rome and England during the twentieth century.

I Am Agatha

A Novel

by Nancy Foley

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Sigrid Nunez, a darkly funny and moving debut novel about the unforgettable Agatha, whose devotion to a widow with dementia (and an inconvenient attachment to her daughter's grave) sparks a radical reckoning with ...

Partially Devoured

How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

by Daniel Kraus

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall and Angel Down dives into a horror movie classic to examine his favorite film's importance to our history, culture, and psychology--a perfect blend of research and memoir for fans of the movie, the ...

A Bad, Bad Place

by Frances Crawford

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling debut mystery about a young girl and her grandmother grappling with the fallout of an unexplained murder in 1979 Glasgow,

Kin

A Novel

by Tayari Jones

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge...

Evil Genius

A Novel

by Claire Oshetsky

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An exuberant, brutally hilarious novel about a young woman's insatiable quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way.

Scale Boy

An African Childhood

by Patrice Nganang

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa―complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.

Kent State

An American Tragedy

by Brian VanDeMark

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illuminating its causes and lasting consequences.

We Refuse

A Forceful History of Black Resistance

by Kellie Carter Jackson

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy.

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