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Room on the Sea

Three Novellas

by Andre Aciman

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Three hypnotic novellas about obsessional love, missed connections, and enduring regret by the bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name.

As If

A Novel

by Isabel Waidner

Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to one another, and yet they look remarkably alike.

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.

Angel Down

A Novel

by Daniel Kraus

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The critically acclaimed author of the "crazily enjoyable" (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war.

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-...

Entangled States

A Life According to Quantum Physics

by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A young queer millennial physicist unveils some of the most mind-bending physics concepts in the universe—and uses them to illuminate their own fascinating life story.

Palaces of the Crow

A Novel

by Ray Nayler

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect.

John of John

A Novel

by Douglas Stuart

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father's expectations and a son's desires.

The Names

A Novel

by Florence Knapp

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?

Eat the Ones You Love

by Sarah Maria Griffin

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

This is a story about desire, dreams, decay―and working retail at the end of the world.

Odessa

A Novel

by Gabrielle Sher

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave.

The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

A Novel

by Jennifer N. Brown

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess.

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