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The Top of the World

A Novel

by Ethan Joella

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A heartbreaking, life-affirming new novel by Ethan Joella—author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope—about a young woman searching for answers about her brother's last days.

The Door in Penrose Forest

A Novel

by Sean David Robinson

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A man returns to his strange hometown twenty years after his mother climbed a staircase in the wilderness and disappeared in this speculative mystery where We Used to Live Here meets The Midnight Library.

The Book of Birds

A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss

by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the best-selling authors of The Lost Words, a dazzling celebration of endangered birds.

Pool House

A Novel

by Mary Choi

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Bestselling young adult author Mary H.K. Choi debuts a brilliantly observed adult novel about mothers, daughters and the complexity of family set against the backdrop of Hollywood.

Earth 7

A Novel

by Deb Olin Unferth

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planet.

Contrapposto

A Novel

by Dave Eggers

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art from Dave Eggers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle, Hologram for the King, and The Eyes & the Impossible.

Mad Eden

A Novel

by Morgan Thomas

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From a pathbreaking writer, a thrilling, form-bending novel about a trans healthcare worker whose carefully built life is suddenly imperiled.

1873

The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World

by Liaquat Ahamed

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind.

The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue

by Zoulfa Katouh

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the celebrated author of As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow comes a poignant novel about a Syrian American girl who uses a magical sketchbook to turn her grief into art, painting miraculous murals of her mother's life in Syria.

Lovers XXX

by Allie Rowbottom

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A raw and unforgettable portrait of sex, friendship, and the perilous edge of liberation for two young women—set against the neon-lit porn world of 1980s Los Angeles.

Land

A Novel

by Maggie O'Farrell

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.

Whistler

A Novel

by Ann Patchett

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.

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