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Nature & Environment

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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.

Endling

A Novel

by Maria Reva

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-...

Hotshot

by River Selby

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting.

Eat the Ones You Love

by Sarah Maria Griffin

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

This is a story about desire, dreams, decay―and working retail at the end of the world.

Nightfaring

In Search of the Disappearing Darkness

by Megan Eaves-Egenes

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A heartfelt exploration of the night on Earth, following a travel journalist and dark sky advocate around the globe as she seeks out dark places in our ever-brightening world.

Only a Little While Here

A Novel

by María Ospina

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds.

How Flowers Made Our World

The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries

by David George Haskell

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today.

Under Water

A Novel

by Tara Menon

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An intense, atmospheric novel about the devastating power of friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic events.

The Antidote

A Novel

by Karen Russell

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their ...

Ruby Falls

A Novel

by Gin Phillips

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain, the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves, and a woman who'...

Raising Hare

A Memoir

by Chloe Dalton

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

I Am the Ghost Here

Stories

by Kim Samek

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Twelve women confront the mounting existential terrors of modernity—climate change, unbridled capitalism and greed, an entertainment industry that will go to surreal lengths to stay relevant—in this debut story collection set in a ...

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