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Sweetener

A Novel

by Marissa Higgins

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of A Good Happy Girl, a lesbian screwball comedy following two exes who turn to online dating after their dramatic split—only to end up seeing the same woman.

The Briar Club

A Novel

by Kate Quinn

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.

Horse

A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Hardcover: Jun 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2024

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and ...

Jackie & Me

by Louis Bayard

Hardcover: Jun 2022 | Paperback: Jun 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we've never seen her before.

Becoming

by Michelle Obama

Hardcover: Nov 2018 | Paperback: Mar 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2019 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.

Life Undercover

Coming of Age in the CIA

by Amaryllis Fox

Hardcover: Oct 2019 | Paperback: Sep 2020

Critics' Consensus:

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter.

The Secrets We Kept

A novel

by Lara Prescott

Hardcover: Sep 2019 | Paperback: Jun 2020

Critics' Consensus:

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth ...

Mighty Justice

My Life in Civil Rights

by Dovey Johnson Roundtree , Katie McCabe

Paperback: Nov 2019

Critics' Consensus:

"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history." —Michelle Obama

American Princess

A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt

by Stephanie Marie Thornton

Paperback: Mar 2019

Critics' Consensus:

"Presidential darling, America's sweetheart, national rebel: Teddy Roosevelt's swashbuckling daughter Alice springs to life in this raucous anthem to a remarkable woman."' - Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

Speak No Evil

by Uzodinma Iweala

Hardcover: Mar 2018 | Paperback: Mar 2019

Critics' Consensus:

In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.

That Kind of Mother

by Rumaan Alam

Hardcover: May 2018 | Paperback: Feb 2019

Critics' Consensus:

From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep.

Code Girls

The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

by Liza Mundy

Hardcover: Oct 2017 | Paperback: Oct 2018

Critics' Consensus:

"Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece of forgotten history, and given these American heroes the recognition they deserve." - Nathalia Holt, ...

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