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Katabasis

A Novel

by R. F. Kuang

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put ...

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Fox

A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspenseabout the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author "who is surely on any ...

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Playworld

A Novel

by Adam Ross

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep—along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach—...

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The God of the Woods

A Novel

by Liz Moore

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

A Novel

by Kiran Desai

Hardcover: Sep 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss.

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Our Evenings

A Novel

by Alan Hollinghurst

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed experiences.

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The Bright Sword

A Novel of King Arthur

by Lev Grossman

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.

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