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Old School Indian

A Novel

by Aaron John Curtis

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Oct 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal.

Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire

by Don Martin

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Welcome to Foxfire.

Sweetener

A Novel

by Marissa Higgins

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of A Good Happy Girl, a lesbian screwball comedy following two exes who turn to online dating after their dramatic split—only to end up seeing the same woman.

Automatic Noodle

by Annalee Newitz

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz.

Hot Girls with Balls

A Novel

by Benedict Nguyen

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams' first rematch in a year.

Banned Together

Our Fight for Readers' Rights

by Ashley Hope Pérez

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling YA anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators.

The Railway Conspiracy

A Dee and Lao Mystery

by John Shen Yen Nee, S.J. Rozan

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction—and kung fu skills—to take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in a rollicking new mystery set in 1920s London.

The follow-up to The Murder...

Theory & Practice

A Novel

by Michelle de Kretser

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a writer looking back on her young adulthood and grappling with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.

Counting Backwards

by Binnie Kirshenbaum

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A middle-aged couple struggles with the husband's descent into early-onset Lewy Body dementia in this profound and deeply moving novel shot through with Kirshenbaum's lacerating humor.

Saint of the Narrows Street

by William Boyle

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

As an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear the consequences—and face each other—in this thrilling southern Brooklyn-set tragic opera of the highest caliber from crime ...

Season of the Swamp

A Novel

by Yuri Herrera

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.

Yr Dead

by Sam Sax

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in ...

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