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Black Bear

A Story of Siblinghood and Survival

by Trina Moyles

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss.

Isola

A Novel

by Allegra Goodman

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this breathtaking saga, an epic story of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam.

Book of Lives

A Memoir of Sorts

by Margaret Atwood

Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures.

Linguaphile

A Life of Language Love

by Julie Sedivy

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.

A Truce That Is Not Peace

by Miriam Toews

Hardcover: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews' memoir of the will to write-a work of disobedient memory, humor, and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society.

Mood Swings

A Novel

by Frankie Barnet

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means.

No Fault

A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

by Haley Mlotek

Hardcover: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An intimate and candid account of one of the most romantic and revolutionary of relationships: divorce.

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

A Novel

by Katherine Arden

Hardcover: Feb 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling ...

Those Pink Mountain Nights

by Jen Ferguson

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a ...

Something, Not Nothing

A Story of Grief and Love

by Sarah Leavitt

Paperback: Sep 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A poignant graphic memoir about the power of art to transform and heal after the death of a loved one.

Like Home

by Louisa Onome

Hardcover: Feb 2021 | Paperback: Jul 2024

Critics' Consensus:

Fans of Netflix's On My Block and readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Angie Thomas will love this debut novel about a girl whose life is turned upside down after one local act of vandalism throws both her relationships and neighborhood into turmoil.

Age 16

by Rosena Fung

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about how mothers and daughters pass down—and rebel against—standards of size, gender, race, beauty, and worth.

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