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So Many Stars

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

by Caro De Robertis

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Award-winning novelist Caro De Robertis offers a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of queer and trans elders of color, from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens to tell their stories of ...

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.

A Well-Trained Wife

My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

by Tia Levings

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me."

Roman Year

A Memoir

by Andre Aciman

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.

Mother Mary Comes to Me

by Arundhati Roy

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as...

The True Happiness Company

A Memoir

by Veena Dinavahi

Hardcover: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman's dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic alternative ...

Mornings Without Mii

by Mayumi Inaba

Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A beloved Japanese modern classic: a meditation on solitude, independence, writing, and life alongside a cat.

Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

by Cat Bohannon

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The real origin of our species: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today

Bloodbath Nation

by Paul Auster

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration with photographer Spencer Ostrander

Alligator Tears

A Memoir in Essays

by Edgar Gomez

Hardcover: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual.

Around the World in Eighty Games

From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games

by Marcus du Sautoy

Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

An award-winning mathematician explores the math behind the games we love and why we love to play them.

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