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Universality

A Novel

by Natasha Brown

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Remember—words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a "powerful new voice in British Literature" (The Sunday Times).

Seduction Theory

A Novel

by Emily Adrian

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

For fans of Conversations with Friends and Vladimir comes a magnetic, fresh take on marriage and loyalty: when two married professors tiptoe toward infidelity, their transgressions are brought to light in a graduate student's ...

Entangled States

A Life According to Quantum Physics

by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A young queer millennial physicist unveils some of the most mind-bending physics concepts in the universe—and uses them to illuminate their own fascinating life story.

This Is Your Mother

A Memoir

by Erika J. Simpson

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.

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,...

All Flesh

A Novel

by Ananda Devi

Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A ticking bomb of teenage savagery that blows the hypocrisies and prejudice of society to smithereens.

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.

Hot Air

A Novel

by Marcy Dermansky

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A joyfully unhinged story of money, marriage, sex, and revenge unspools when a billionaire crashes his hot-air balloon into the middle of a post-pandemic first date.

Vanishing World

by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by ...

Three Days in June

A Novel

by Anne Tyler

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.

The Witch

A Novel

by Marie NDiaye

Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In a small French town, a mediocre witch trapped in a cruel marriage cries watery tears of blood as she passes on her gifts to her twin daughters, who soon must make a choice: stay close to the nest and the mother who nourished them, or soar away ...

Audition

A Novel

by Katie Kitamura

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

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