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Stop Me If You've Heard This One

A Novel

by Kristen Arnett

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love.

Whidbey

A Novel

by T Kira Madden

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A stunning literary achievement and portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his murder—the explosive and highly anticipated debut novel from beloved and award-winning memoirist, T Kira Madden.

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.

Absolution

Southern Reach, book 4

by Jeff VanderMeer

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.

Real Americans

A Novel

by Rachel Khong

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our ...

Say Hello to My Little Friend

A Novel

by Jennine Capó Crucet

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic.

Alligator Tears

A Memoir in Essays

by Edgar Gomez

Hardcover: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual.

Gator Country

Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

by Rebecca Renner

Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters

A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

A Novel

by Raul Palma

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil's bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.

The Reformatory

A Novel

by Tananarive Due

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Sep 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit

The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

by Noliwe Rooks

Hardcover: Jul 2024

Critics' Consensus:

An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation.

Banyan Moon

A Novel

by Thao Thai

Hardcover: Jun 2023 | Paperback: Jun 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.

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