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Books set primarily in the Northeast region of the USA

New England, USA

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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.

The House on Buzzards Bay

A Novel

by Dwyer Murphy

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

When a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, a sudden disappearance and the arrival of a seductive stranger threaten to unearth the darkest secrets of their relationships.

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.

The River Is Waiting

A Novel

by Wally Lamb

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the ...

The Things We Never Say

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout's new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher's life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship,...

Memorial Days

A Memoir

by Geraldine Brooks

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.

The Bewitching

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

Brawler

Stories

by Lauren Groff

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our time.

Some Bright Nowhere

A Novel

by Ann Packer

Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an intimate and profoundly moving look at a long marriage and the ways in which a startling request can change a couple's understanding of who they are, together and apart...

Rental House

A Novel

by Weike Wang

Hardcover: Dec 2024 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations.

The Book of George

A Novel

by Kate Greathead

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. for our times: Kate Greathead's razor-sharp but big-hearted excavation of millennial masculinity, The Book of George.

Heart the Lover

by Lily King

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love.

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