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Taiwan Travelogue

by Shuang-zi Yang

"They Need to Teach This in American Schools"

Taiwan has an immense, rich history for a land the size of Maryland with a population about the same as Florida. You could spend forever on their relations with China and Japan. “Taiwan Travelogue” by...

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Whistler

"Ann Patchett returns to themes of family and memory in her beautiful, character-driven novel."

Whistler, Ann Patchett's tenth novel (after 2023's Tom Lake) begins with a chance encounter. Fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller and her husband, Jonathan, are enjoying a quiet Saturday at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art when ...

Somebody Worth Killing

by Jessica Payne

Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.

Prophecy

"Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz explores the ethics of prediction, drawing on historical examples and a magnetic writing style to make the case for caution in the age of AI."

It's difficult to overstate how much of our daily life is shaped by prediction. From the mundane (checking the weather before getting dressed; deciding which route to take to work to avoid traffic) to the massive (credit scores; election polling) ...

Odessa

"The horrors of the pogroms in the historical Russian Empire are reimagined through the lens of Jewish folklore in this haunting tale of resistance, autonomy, and survival."

Blending history with magical realism, Gabrielle Sher's debut novel Odessa takes place in the early 20th century Russian Empire during the pogroms, a series of government authorized attacks on Jewish communities throughout the empire. We follow Yetta...

A Pair of Aces

by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.

The Compound

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

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Well-Read Black Girl Books & More: Diversity Projects in Publishing

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Catch (2025), recently released in paperback, has a bizarre and intriguing premise: twin sisters who were separated at a young age, adopted into different families after their mother’s death, diverge in their ...

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American Han

"Lisa Lee explores the Korean American experience through the eyes of Jane, a floundering law student struggling to live up to her parents' expectations. When her brother commits a horrific act, family tensions resurface."

The Korean word "han" is generally defined as a feeling that encapsulates sorrow, resentment, grief, and loss of identity. Han is born from years of systemic suffering—occupation, war, displacement—and seeps into the daily lives of ...

A Thousand Ships
A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

Sweetener
Sweetener

by Marissa Higgins

Moonrise Over New Jessup
Moonrise Over New Jessup

by Jamila Minnicks

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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…

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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…

Summer's Never Over

by Darby Bozeman

A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.

The Reimagining of Thornwood House

by Jaleigh Johnson

A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.

The Jills

by Karen Parkman

In this propulsive debut, a Buffalo Bills cheerleader will stop at nothing to solve the disappearance of her best friend and teammate, navigating the dark underbelly of a hardscrabble city, the grime ...

Land

"During the Ordnance Survey of the 1800s, Tomás and his son Liam have left their home in Dublin to map a remote peninsula of Ireland. When Tomás has an unsettling encounter in a copse, Liam is unnerved by the change in his father."

On a remote peninsula in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are surveying the land, as a part of the British Ordnance Survey—an organized effort to map the whole of Ireland. The taciturn Tomás is a trained surveyor, having worked his way up...

Feast

by Catherine Kurtz

In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.

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Trust

by Hernan Diaz

An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception.

Entangled States

"Karmela Padavic-Callaghan's debut book Entangled States explores identity, memory, and uncertainty through physics, blending quantum mechanics with a deeply personal memoir."

Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics is not your typical pop-sci book. Authored by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, a science journalist and writer who has worked with major magazines like New Scientist, it beautifully blends quantum ...

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