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Bring the House Down

A Novel

by Charlotte Runcie

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A theater critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe writes a vicious one-star review of a struggling actress he has a one-night stand with in this sharply funny, feminist tinderbox.

My Friends

A Novel

by Fredrik Backman

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

Critics' Consensus:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later.

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.

The Emperor of Gladness

A Novel

by Ocean Vuong

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

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.

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.

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.

Earth 7

A Novel

by Deb Olin Unferth

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planet.

Contrapposto

A Novel

by Dave Eggers

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art from Dave Eggers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle, Hologram for the King, and The Eyes & the Impossible.

Baby in a Box

Stories

by Sarah Braunstein

Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Prescient and idiosyncratic stories about the cost and joys of caretaking from a "sharp-witted, ravishing" (New York Times) writer.

Atmosphere

A Love Story

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love ...

So Far Gone

A Novel

by Jess Walter

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis' True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a ...

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