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The Slip

A Novel

by Lucas Schaefer

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.

The Original

A Novel

by Nell Stevens

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.

Katabasis

A Novel

by R. F. Kuang

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put ...

The Compound

A Novel

by Aisling Rawle

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.

Endling

A Novel

by Maria Reva

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-...

Woodworking

by Emily St. James

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An unforgettable and heartwarming book-club debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students.

Great Big Beautiful Life

by Emily Henry

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.

The Young Will Remember

by Eve J. Chung

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel about a correspondent trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War, and the women who help her find her way home, from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Shandong.

When I found the courage to lift my head, I ...

The Hill

A Novel

by Harriet Clark

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

After her mother is sentenced to life in a hilltop prison, Suzanna vows to return to the hill forever. An unexpectedly funny and deeply moving novel about the many ways we punish and return to each other.

Flashlight

A Novel

by Susan Choi

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.

Gliff

A Novel

by Ali Smith

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing.

All Flesh

A Novel

by Ananda Devi

Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A ticking bomb of teenage savagery that blows the hypocrisies and prejudice of society to smithereens.

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