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Prophecy

Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

by Carissa Véliz

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthcare to the news and social media we consume...

The Usual Desire to Kill

A Novel

by Camilla Barnes

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter—for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.

A World Appears

A Journey into Consciousness

by Michael Pollan

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.

Theory & Practice

A Novel

by Michelle de Kretser

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a writer looking back on her young adulthood and grappling with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.

Vigil

A Novel

by George Saunders

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A wise, playful, electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world ...

Indignity

A Life Reimagined

by Lea Ypi

Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Nov 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.

Bright Objects

by Ruby Todd

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands....

A Truce That Is Not Peace

by Miriam Toews

Hardcover: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews' memoir of the will to write-a work of disobedient memory, humor, and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society.

The Anthropologists

by Aysegül Savas

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family?

Creation Lake

A Novel

by Rachel Kushner

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most gifted authors of her generation" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who ...

Toward Eternity

A Novel

by Anton Hur

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it ...

The Alternatives

A Novel

by Caoilinn Hughes

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive talent," the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside.

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