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Earth 7

A Novel

by Deb Olin Unferth

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planet.

Contrapposto

A Novel

by Dave Eggers

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art from Dave Eggers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle, Hologram for the King, and The Eyes & the Impossible.

Land

A Novel

by Maggie O'Farrell

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.

Whistler

A Novel

by Ann Patchett

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.

We Could Be Anyone

by Anna-Marie McLemore

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Two teen con-artists must execute an almost impossible scam at an exclusive mansion in this thriller that's White Lotus meets Mexican Gothic - for teens.

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.

Returns and Exchanges

A Novel

by Kayla Rae Whitaker

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family's rise and fall throughout the 1980s—a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of mixing family with business, from the acclaimed author of The Animators.

All Them Dogs

A Novel

by Djamel White

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A young Irish gangster is caught in a brutal dance between love and loyalty.

Palaces of the Crow

A Novel

by Ray Nayler

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect.

The Foursome

A Novel

by Christina Baker Kline

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline's own distant relatives — who married world-...

Seek the Traitor's Son

by Veronica Roth

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An epic, romantic dystopian fantasy begins in Seek the Traitor's Son, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth.

The Young Will Remember

by Eve J. Chung

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel about a correspondent trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War, and the women who help her find her way home, from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Shandong.

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