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Religious or Spiritual Themes

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This Is Your Mother

A Memoir

by Erika J. Simpson

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.

Seek the Traitor's Son

by Veronica Roth

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An epic, romantic dystopian fantasy begins in Seek the Traitor's Son, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth.

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.

A Private Man

by Stephanie Sy-Quia

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A debut novel inspired by the true story of the author's grandparents, tracing the slow-burn love story between a Catholic priest and a progressive theology teacher across Rome and England during the twentieth century.

Cape Fever

A Novel

by Nadia Davids

Hardcover: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the secrets of its enigmatic owner.

Minor Black Figures

A Novel

by Brandon Taylor

Hardcover: Oct 2025 | Paperback: Oct 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author: a perceptive novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity.

Bog Queen

A Novel

by Anna North

Hardcover: Oct 2025 | Paperback: Oct 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Outlawed, the gripping story of an anthropologist's monumental discovery and the clash of civilizations it sets off over the fate of the land that holds us.

Ruth

A Novel

by Kate Riley

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In this mesmerizing and profound novel, the arc of a woman's life in a devout, insular community challenges our deepest assumptions about what infuses life with meaning.

Nicked

A Novel

by M.T. Anderson

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saint

The Bright Sword

A Novel of King Arthur

by Lev Grossman

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.

Enlightenment

A Novel

by Sarah Perry

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.

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