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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.

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.

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.

Archive of Unknown Universes

A Novel

by Ruben Reyes

Hardcover: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, a piercing debut novel following two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war—a stunning exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past, and the ...

Women and Children First

A Novel

by Alina Grabowski

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town.

Glassworks

by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Hardcover: May 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms.

Wild and Distant Seas

A Novel

by Tara Karr Roberts

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.

North Woods

A Novel

by Daniel Mason

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and ...

The Great Abolitionist

Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union

by Stephen Puleo

Hardcover: Apr 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.

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