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The White Hot

A Novel

by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Hardcover: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The story of a runaway mother's ten days of freedom—and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment—from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes.

The Dime Museum

A Novel in Stories

by Joyce Hinnefeld

Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Hinnefeld's web of characters are bound by legacies, genes, philanthropy, and chance but gravitate largely around Charlie, a rich, white, college graduate who ends up in Venice.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

A Novel

by James McBride

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

Early Sobrieties

A Novel

by Michael Deagler

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Like a sober, millennial Jesus' Son, Michael Deagler's debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering addict adrift in the fragmenting landscape of America's middle class.

Beautyland

A Novel

by Marie-Helene Bertino

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth, by the acclaimed author of Parakeet.

Murder by Degrees

A Mystery

by Ritu Mukerji

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering woman doctor as she investigates the disappearance of a young patient who is presumed dead.

The Unsettled

A Novel

by Ayana Mathis

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Jun 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her...

We Are Not Like Them

A Novel

by Christine Pride, Jo Piazza

Hardcover: Oct 2021 | Paperback: Aug 2022

Critics' Consensus:

Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event—a powerful and poignant exploration of race in ...

With the Fire on High

by Elizabeth Acevedo

Hardcover: May 2019 | Paperback: Mar 2021

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.

The Dutch House

by Ann Patchett

Hardcover: Sep 2019 | Paperback: Jan 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and...

Marilou Is Everywhere

A Novel

by Sarah Elaine Smith

Hardcover: Jul 2019 | Paperback: Jul 2020

Critics' Consensus:

Consumed by the longing for a different life, a teenager flees her family and carefully slips into another -- replacing a girl whose own sudden disappearance still haunts the town.

Harry's Trees

by Jon Cohen

Hardcover: Jun 2018 | Paperback: Jun 2019

Critics' Consensus:

When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight.

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