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War Related

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Angel Down

A Novel

by Daniel Kraus

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The critically acclaimed author of the "crazily enjoyable" (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war.

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-...

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.

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.

When I found the courage to lift my head, I ...

America, América

A New History of the New World

by Greg Grandin

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both.

We Do Not Part

A Novel

by Han Kang

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Han Kang's most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter of Korean history.

Nonesuch

A Novel

by Francis Spufford

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London Blitz—from "one of our most powerful writers of wayward historical fiction" (The Washington Post).

The Demon of Unrest

A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

by Erik Larson

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in ...

Every One Still Here

Stories

by Liadan Ní Chuinn

Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A searching, incisive, and profound debut collection of stories about people―mothers, fathers, sons, strangers, sisters―living in the aftermath of violence.

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.

Buckeye

A Novel

by Patrick Ryan

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

"A small-town novel of epic proportions" (Tom Perrotta), this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.

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