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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.

Homebound

A Novel

by Portia Elan

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Five interlocking lives. One beloved story. A dazzling adventure across centuries and continents in search of the things that hold us together.

Girl on Girl

How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

by Sophie Gilbert

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture.

Nightfaring

In Search of the Disappearing Darkness

by Megan Eaves-Egenes

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A heartfelt exploration of the night on Earth, following a travel journalist and dark sky advocate around the globe as she seeks out dark places in our ever-brightening world.

Dark Laboratory

On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

by Tao Leigh Goffe

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.

The Age of Calamities

Stories

by Senaa Ahmad

Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Written by an inimitable new voice, The Age of Calamities is a genre-defying, mind-bending collection of absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories.

Alien Earths

The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

by Lisa Kaltenegger

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.

Beasts of the Sea

A Novel

by Iida Turpeinen

Hardcover: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In the spirit of Richard Powers and Daniel Mason, a novel spanning three centuries and tied together by the tale of Steller's sea cow—a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans—at once intimate and sweeping about the tragic clash ...

We Refuse

A Forceful History of Black Resistance

by Kellie Carter Jackson

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy.

Replaceable You

Adventures in Human Anatomy

by Mary Roach

Hardcover: Sep 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy.

The Last Extinction

The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs

by Gerta Keller

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The story behind Dr. Gerta Keller's world-shattering scientific discovery that dinosaur extinction was NOT caused by asteroid impact, but rather by volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula, a discovery that highlights today's existential threat of ...

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

Stories

by Ruben Reyes

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.

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