Mute Swans: A hauntingly beautiful exploration of love, loss, and second chances
by
Jenny-Anne Fennell
Cricklepit Press, 01/01/2026
When Miriam is handed her mother's memory journal, she expects a quiet keepsake of the past. Instead, its pages begin to unravel the romantic myth of ...
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Literary Fiction
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
by
Samantha Ellis
Pegasus Books, 01/06/2026
Samantha's mother tongue is dying out. The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-...
more
Beth Is Dead
by
Katie Bernet
Sarah Barley Books, 01/06/2026
When Beth March is found dead in the woods on New Year's Day, her sisters vow to uncover her murderer.
Suspects abound. There's the neighbor who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival
by
Trina Moyles
Pegasus Books, 01/06/2026
When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as "the bear guy," brought home an orphaned black bear cub...
more
Call Me Ishmaelle
by
Xiaolu Guo
Grove Press, 01/06/2026
I must work on a ship as a man ... I must find freedom on the seas.
1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Digital Inc.: From Print to E-Book-Inside the Transformation of the Book Industry
by
Richard Curtis
Rivertowns Books, 01/06/2026
As a widely admired literary agent and the founder of one of the very first e-book publishers, Richard Curtis was present at the creation. He knows ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Fire Must Burn: Sparks and Bainbridge Mysteries #8
by
Allison Montclair
Severn House, 01/06/2026
Sparks fly when an old friend comes to town ...
London, 1947. After recent events have left the normally steadfast Iris Sparks thoroughly shaken, ...
more
Homeschooled: A Memoir
by
Stefan Merrill Block
Hanover Square Press, 01/06/2026
Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were "stifling his creativity." Hungry for more time ...
more
Life After Ambition: A "Good Enough" Memoir
by
Amil Niazi
Atria Books, 01/06/2026
Building off her wildly popular viral essays "Losing My Ambition" and "The Mindfuck of Mid-Life," Amil Niazi explores what life looks like "post-...
more
Meet the Newmans: A Novel
by
Jennifer Niven
Flatiron Books, 01/06/2026
For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America's Favorite Family. Millions of viewers tune in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
by
Kenneth R. Rosen
Simon & Schuster, 01/06/2026
Russian spies. Nuclear submarines. Sabotaged pipelines. Undersea communications severed in the dark of night. The fastest-warming place on earth—...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Return of the Maltese Falcon
by
Max Allan Collins
Hard Case Crime, 01/06/2026
The greatest private eye of all time returns to finish the job.
Legendary mystery writer Dashiell Hammett only wrote one novel about detective Sam ...
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Skylark: A Novel
by
Paula McLain
Atria Books, 01/06/2026
1664: Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who secretly dreams of escaping her circumstances and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Storm at the Capitol: An Oral History of January 6th
by
Mary Clare Jalonick
Public Affairs, 01/06/2026
The January 6th insurrection was a stunning and unprecedented attack on the center of American government. Unlike previous national traumas that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Charmed Library: A Novel
by
Jennifer Moorman
Harper Muse, 01/06/2026
Like many other public libraries, the one in Blue Sky Valley, North Carolina, is a haven for readers. But it's also unlike any other. In this library,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thrillers
The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas
by
Carrie Gibson
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/06/2026
"Among the emancipators are the millions whose stories will never be known. They lived the struggle. They were the great resistance." Thus does ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Matchbox Girl
by
Alice Jolly
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/06/2026
Adelheid Brunner does not speak. She writes and draws instead and her ambition is to own one thousand matchboxes. Her grandmother cannot make sense of...
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Historical Fiction
The Murder at World's End: Stockingham & Pike #1
by
Ross Montgomery
William Morrow, 01/06/2026
Cornwall, 1910. On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparations for the apocalypse that he believes will ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
The Storm: A Novel
by
Rachel Hawkins
St. Martin's Press, 01/06/2026
St. Medard's Bay, Alabama is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town, the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel that'...
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The Swan's Daughter: A Possibly Doomed Love Story
by
Roshani Chokshi
Wednesday Books, 01/06/2026
To find love is a curse ...
Prince Arris knows that marriage means murder. Thanks to a poorly worded wish to a sea witch, all one needs to rule the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Watching Over Her: A Novel
by
Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Simon & Schuster, 01/06/2026
In an Italian monastery, a sculptor named Mimo lays on his deathbed. For decades, he has lived among the monks who watch over his masterpiece, an ...
more
Wildwood: A Novel
by
Amy Pease
Atria Books, 01/06/2026
Deputy Sheriff Eli North has spent the last year getting his life back together. He hasn't touched a drop of alcohol, he's working through his PTSD ...
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Thrillers
Wreck Your Heart: A Mystery
by
Lori Rader-Day
Minotaur Books, 01/06/2026
Dahlia "Doll" Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she's the star of her ...
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Anatomy of an Alibi: A Novel
by
Ashley Elston
Pamela Dorman Books, 01/13/2026
Everyone at Chantilly's Bar noticed out-of-towner Camille Bayliss. Red lips, designer heels, sipping a Negroni. But that woman wasn't Camille Bayliss....
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Thrillers
Dandelion Is Dead
by
Rosie Storey
Berkley Books, 01/13/2026
When Poppy discovers unanswered messages from a charming stranger in her late sister's dating app, she makes an impulsive choice: She'll meet him, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Detour: A Novel (Detour Series)
by
Jeff Rake, Rob Hart
Random House, 01/13/2026
Ryan Crane wasn't looking for trouble—just a cup of coffee. But when this cop spots a gunman emerging from an unmarked van, he leaps into action...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Divine Ruin: Sister Holiday Mysteries #3
by
Margot Douaihy
Gillian Flynn Books/Zando, 01/13/2026
It's a steamy, restless end of the school year in New Orleans. Sister Holiday is finishing her music classes and preparing for her permanent vow ...
more
Don't Step into My Office: A Novel
by
David Fishkind
Arcade Publishing, 01/13/2026
Aspiring writer and general layabout Jacob Garlicker doesn't expect—walking along the beach on the night of his twenty-sixth birthday—to ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fire Sword and Sea: A Novel
by
Vanessa Riley
William Morrow, 01/13/2026
The Caribbean Sea, 1675. Jacquotte Delahaye is the mixed-race daughter of a wealthy tavern owner on the island of Tortuga. Instead of marriage, ...
more
Historical Fiction
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
by
Jung Chang
Harper, 01/13/2026
Jung Chang's epic family memoir,
Wild Swans, defined a generation, chronicling the experiences of Jung, her mother, and her grandmother—"three ...
more
Hyper
by
Agri Ismaïl
Coffee House Press, 01/13/2026
On the eve of the 1979 Revolution, Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of Kurdistan's communist party, flees Iran for London with his young family. Thirty ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I Could Be Famous: Stories
by
Sydney Rende
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/13/2026
A listless woman befriends an influencer at a rooftop party, only to discover her lifestyle is not as glamorous as it seems. A college freshman gives ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Inside Man: Head Cases #2
by
John McMahon
Minotaur Books, 01/13/2026
FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns ...
more
Is This a Cry for Help?: A Novel
by
Emily Austin
Atria Books, 01/13/2026
Darcy's life turned out better than she could have ever imagined. She is a librarian at the local branch, while her wife Joy runs a book binding ...
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Literary Fiction
Jean: A Novel
by
Madeleine Dunnigan
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/13/2026
Seventeen-year-old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative ...
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Literary Fiction
Like in Love with You: A Novel
by
Emma R. Alban
Avon Books, 01/13/2026
When Catherine Pine relocates to Bath in 1817, she comes face-to-face with her mother's arch nemesis and her daughter—the wildly popular Lady ...
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Lost Lambs: A Novel
by
Madeline Cash
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/13/2026
The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
by
Katie Benner
Metropolitan Books, 01/13/2026
T.M. Landry College Prep, a small private school in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, boasted a 100 percent college acceptance rate, placing students at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Murder Your Darlings: A Novel
by
Jenna Blum
Harper, 01/13/2026
Known for such brilliant historical novels as
Those Who Save Us and
The Lost Family, A Mighty Blaze co-founder and
New York Times ...
more
Scavengers: A Novel
by
Kathleen Boland
Viking, 01/13/2026
After being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Sheer: A Novel
by
Vanessa Lawrence
Dutton, 01/13/2026
It's 2015 and Maxine Thomas, the founder and creative director of the cult makeup company Reveal, has just been suspended by her own Board for a ...
more
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
by
Belle Burden
The Dial Press, 01/13/2026
It was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of...more
Biography/Memoir
The Age of Calamities: Stories
by
Senaa Ahmad
Henry Holt and Company, 01/13/2026
In this bold collection, Senaa Ahmad pushes the boundaries of history and its figures, sending the reader on a thrilling ride. In "Let's Play Dead," ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Bookbinder's Secret: A Novel
by
A. D. Bell
St. Martin's Press, 01/13/2026
Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Cyclist: DS George Cross Mysteries #2
by
Tim Sullivan
Atlantic Crime, 01/13/2026
DS George Cross has unique and unmatchable talents. He uses a combination of logic, determination and exacting precision to get answers where others ...
more
The Hitch
by
Sara Levine
Roxane Gay Books, 01/13/2026
Rose Cutler defines herself by her exacting standards. As an anti-racist, Jewish secular feminist eco-warrior, she is convinced she knows the right ...
more
The Jilted Countess: A Novel
by
Loretta Ellsworth
Harper, 01/13/2026
The war stole Roza Meszaros's dreams of becoming a ballerina and her aristocratic family's fortune. But the penniless Hungarian countess's fate takes ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Last of Earth: A Novel
by
Deepa Anappara
Random House, 01/13/2026
1869. Tibet is closed to Europeans, an infuriating obstruction for the rapidly expanding British Empire. In response, Britain begins training ...
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Historical Fiction
The Magic of Untamed Hearts: Wild Magic #3
by
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Berkley Books, 01/13/2026
Like her sisters, Sage and Teal, Sky Flores has a touch of magic, and it's caused nothing but heartache. Not only did she disappear into the woods ...
more
The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
by
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 01/13/2026
MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of
Plato at the Googleplex and
The Mind-Body Problem, returns ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans
by
Maya Shankar
Riverhead Books, 01/13/2026
Life has a way of thwarting our best-laid plans. Out of nowhere you get an unexpected diagnosis, or your relationship ends, or you suffer some other ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
by
Jason Burke
Knopf, 01/13/2026
In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out around the world. More ambitious, networked and far-reaching than ever before...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The School of Night: A Novel
by
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Penguin Press, 01/13/2026
It's 1985, and the young and ambitious Kristian Hadeland is moving from Norway to London to study photography. He throws himself headfirst into the ...
more
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
by
C. Thi Nguyen
Penguin Books, 01/13/2026
The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen—one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data—takes us deep into the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism
by
Ian Frazier
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/13/2026
Writing on subjects as divergent as the mega-fires that burned the grasslands of the Great Plains in 2018, the tragic secret life of the manufacturer ...
more
The Undead: A Novel of Modern Russia
by
Svetlana Satchkova
Melville House, 01/13/2026
When Maya, a young Russian film-maker, makes a low-budget horror movie with her friends, it seems like a promising start to a career in indie film. ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
We Would Have Told Each Other Everything: A Novel
by
Judith Hermann
FSG Originals, 01/13/2026
When Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst in the middle of the night on Berlin's Kastanienallee, the meeting sparks an exploration of the ...
more
A Box Full of Darkness
by
Simone St. James
Berkley Books, 01/20/2026
Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A mysterious drowning at the town's roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose body is left ...
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Thrillers
A Gift Before Dying: A Novel
by
Malcolm Kempt
Crown, 01/20/2026
After a botched high-profile murder investigation, Corporal Elderick Cole is exiled to the remote, rugged landscape of Nunavut, a vast territory in ...
more
A Very Cold Winter
by
Fausta Cialente
Transit Books, 01/20/2026
Fausta Cialente (1898–1994) was a novelist, journalist, political activist, and one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Though ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Wild Radiance
by
Maria Ingrande Mora
Peachtree Publishers, 01/20/2026
Josephine Haven is about to find out exactly where she fits into the march of Progress. Her outbursts are infamous at the House of Industry, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All the Little Houses: A Novel
by
May Cobb
Sourcebooks Landmark, 01/20/2026
It's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the ...
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Thrillers
Better the Devil
by
Erik J. Brown
Harper, 01/20/2026
When a runaway teen is arrested for shoplifting, he's desperate not to be sent back to the hyper-religious parents he knows will never accept him. ...
more
Butterfly Games: A Novel
by
Kelly Scarborough
She Writes Press, 01/20/2026
In the opulent world of the Swedish royal court, Jacquette Gyldenstolpe walks a dangerous tightrope between romance and political intrigue. Neglected ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Crucible
by
John Sayles
Melville House, 01/20/2026
As the Depression hits Detroit, Henry Ford — who doesn't like change — finds himself having to confront the crash of the economy, which he...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Crux: A Novel
by
Gabriel Tallent
Riverhead Books, 01/20/2026
Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy ...
more
Cry Havoc: A Novel
by
Rebecca Wait
Harper, 01/20/2026
Fleeing Scotland after a humiliating family scandal, sixteen-year-old Ida Campbell secures a scholarship at a failing girls' boarding school situated ...
more
Departure(s): A Novel
by
Julian Barnes
Knopf, 01/20/2026
Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself ...
more
Literary Fiction
Discipline: A Novel
by
Larissa Pham
Random House, 01/20/2026
I have the sense that something is being drawn between us. Not drawn as in line but as in arrow pulled back. Yet I dont know which of us holds the bow...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eating Ashes: A Novel
by
Brenda Navarro
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 01/20/2026
Alone and adrift in Barcelona, an unnamed narrator is haunted by the death of her teenage brother, Diego. Diego, the little boy she helped raise in ...
more
Evelyn in Transit: A Novel
by
David Guterson
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/20/2026
Radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She's easily ...
more
Every One Still Here: Stories
by
Liadan Ní Chuinn
FSG Originals, 01/20/2026
What good is it to know what things are, what lies beneath the appearance of them? It is nothing until it is stated. It is nothing if it is not named....more
Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Football
by
Chuck Klosterman
Penguin Press, 01/20/2026
Chuck Klosterman—
New York Times bestselling critic, journalist, and, yes, football psychotic—did not write this book to deepen your ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
George Falls Through Time: A Novel
by
Ryan Collett
William Morrow, 01/20/2026
Newly laid off George's internet bill is in his ex-boyfriend's name. He's got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he's walking in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Good Guys: A Novel
by
Sharon Bala
McClelland & Stewart, 01/20/2026
"The easiest choices are the ones you make for other people."
Claire Talbot is the publicist at Children of the World, an international aid charity...
more
Thrillers
Half His Age: A Novel
by
Jennette McCurdy
Ballantine Books, 01/20/2026
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder: A Novel
by
Nina McConigley
Pantheon Books, 01/20/2026
Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Just Watch Me: A Novel
by
Lior Torenberg
Avid Reader Press, 01/20/2026
Dell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She's behind on rent for her studio apartment (formerly a walk-in closet), she's being plagued by ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
by
Howard Bryant
Mariner Books, 01/20/2026
Kings and Pawns is the untold story of sports and fame, Black America and the promise of integration through the Cold War lens of two transformative ...
more
Leyla's House: A Novel
by
Zülfü Livaneli
Other Press, 01/20/2026
The last living member of a great Ottoman family, the refined yet sheltered Leyla finds herself homeless and vulnerable when her house is sold by the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief
by
T. Kingfisher
Tordotcom, 01/20/2026
No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
One Aladdin Two Lamps
by
Jeanette Winterson
Grove Press, 01/20/2026
A woman is filibustering for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day.
One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the ...
more
Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting
by
Nina Bandelj
Princeton University Press, 01/20/2026
Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Scale Boy: An African Childhood
by
Patrice Nganang
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/20/2026
Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of
Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently,
A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022
New Yorker Book of the...
more
Steppe: A Novel
by
Oksana Vasyakina
Catapult, 01/20/2026
A decade after her father walks out on her family, the narrator of
Steppe, now a literature student, decides to spend some time with him on the road ...
more
The Book of Alice: Poems
by
Diamond Forde
Scribner, 01/20/2026
"Alice / a god-song, swings still in the high / branch of our throats. I miss her, wonder / what she plants in heaven's mulch."
When her ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
by
Graham Robb
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/20/2026
Interweaving personal and historical narratives and making use of contemporary sources, Graham Robb's lively exploration of Britain through the ages ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by
Nicolas Niarchos
Penguin Press, 01/20/2026
Congo is rich. Swaths of the war-torn African country lack basic infrastructure, and, after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Flower Bearers
by
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Random House, 01/20/2026
On the same day, hundreds of miles away, Griffiths' closest friend and chosen sister, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the ...
more
The Future Saints: A Novel
by
Ashley Winstead
Atria Books, 01/20/2026
This is a love story, but not the one you're expecting.
When record executive Theo meets the Future Saints, they're bombing at a dive bar in their ...
more
The Infamous Gilberts: A Novel
by
Angela Tomaski
Scribner, 01/20/2026
Thornwalk, a once-stately English manor, is on the brink of transformation. Its keys are being handed over to a luxury hotelier who will undertake a ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
by
Sophie Pinkham
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/20/2026
From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Poet Empress
by
Shen Tao
Bramble, 01/20/2026
Wei Yin is desperate. After the fifth death of a sibling, with her family and village on the brink of starvation, she will do anything to save those ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Sea Child: A Novel
by
Linda Wilgus
Ballantine Books, 01/20/2026
England, early 1800s: Destitute and forced to leave her home in London, Isabel, a young widow of the Napoleonic Wars, returns to the village on the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Two Women Living Together
by
Kim Hana
Ecco, 01/20/2026
When most of their peers were moving in with romantic partners and having children, Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo chose independence—savoring ...
more
University: A Reckoning
by
Lee C. Bollinger
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/20/2026
The American university―one of the most successful institutions in human history―is facing an unprecedented assault from the president of ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When There Are No More Stars Left to Count
by
María Martínez
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 01/20/2026
After a car collision ends her career as a ballet soloist with the National Dance Company in Madrid, 22-year-old Maya Rivet finds herself abandoned by...
more
Romance
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy
by
Beronda L. Montgomery
Henry Holt and Company, 01/20/2026
The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine; ...
more
When We Were Brilliant
by
Lynn Cullen
Berkley Books, 01/20/2026
In 1952, Norma Jeane Baker follows documentary photographer Eve Arnold into a powder room on the night they first meet. She has a proposition for her....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing: A Novel
by
Alice Evelyn Yang
William Morrow, 01/27/2026
Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
A Brief History of a Long War: Ukraine's Fight Against Russian Domination
by
Mariam Naiem
Ten Speed Graphic, 01/27/2026
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine began long before the 2014 war that led to the Russia's invasion in 2022. The Ukrainian people have been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Beckomberga: A Novel
by
Sara Stridsberg
FSG Originals, 01/27/2026
Jackie's father, Jim, lives at Beckomberga. She takes the bus to visit him, though sometimes he refuses to see her and so instead she gets to know his...
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Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood
by
William J Mann
Simon & Schuster, 01/27/2026
The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short—better known as the Black Dahlia—in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years...
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Burn Down Master's House: A Novel
by
Clay Cane
Dafina, 01/27/2026
As turmoil simmers within a divided nation, smoke from another blaze begins to rise. Sparked by individual acts of resistance among those enslaved ...
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Historical Fiction
Dear Debbie
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 01/27/2026
Sometimes, enough is enough…
Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, ...
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Thrillers
Escape!: A Novel
by
Stephen Fishbach
Dutton, 01/27/2026
Everyone gets the story arc they deserve.
Kent Duvall, a faded reality show winner, just wants another chance at glory—to find his way out of...
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Freddie and Stella Got Hot
by
Maggie Horne
Feiwel & Friends, 01/27/2026
By the time the Beaumont-Gardiner Award is announced, everyone's going to hate Levi Preston. And they're going to love us.
Freddie and Stella are ...
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I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200
by
Robert Brockway
Page Street Horror, 01/27/2026
That's why Eddie Video makes the perfect imaginary friend: He's smart, he's loud, he loves pulling pranks, and he's always there to chase away the ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
In Bloom: A Novel
by
Liz Allan
Simon & Schuster, 01/27/2026
It's the mid-nineties, and in the small, shitty coastal town of Vincent, Australia, four Nirvana-obsessed fourteen-year-old girls form a grunge band. ...
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Literary Fiction
Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island
by
Mike Pitts
Mariner Books, 01/27/2026
Rapa Nui, known to Western cultures as Easter Island for centuries, has long been a source of mystery. While the massive stone statues that populate ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
It Lurks in the Night
by
Sarah Dass
Disney-Hyperion, 01/27/2026
All Maya Woods wants is to reunite her three best friends, Pearl, Erica, and Lystra, for one last epic boat trip to the islands around their Caribbean...
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Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
by
Julian Sancton
Crown, 01/27/2026
Roger Dooley wasn't looking for the San José. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive led him to the story of a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
One Sun Only: Stories
by
Camille Bordas
Random House, 01/27/2026
A young woman takes stock after the burglary of her apartment. A teenager becomes obsessed with the obituaries in a weekly magazine. Grandchildren ...
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Paper Cut: A Novel
by
Rachel Taff
William Morrow, 01/27/2026
Everybody knows the story. Nobody knows the truth…
Lucy Golden is a true-crime icon, infamous for the murder she committed while escaping a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Persona
by
Aoife Josie Clements
LittlePuss Press, 01/27/2026
A feral shut-in discovers a disturbing internet porn video of what seems to be herself. A seance of coked-up artists summons unearthly forces in a ...
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Sparking Fire Out of Fate: Forging Silver into Stars #3
by
Brigid Kemmerer
Bloomsbury YA, 01/27/2026
Callyn has grown closer to Queen Lia Mara in Syhl Shallow, bonded by the secret magic they share. But their magic can stay hidden only so long, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sundown Girls
by
L.S. Stratton
Nancy Paulsen Books, 01/27/2026
When sixteen-year-old Naomi Ward and her family head to a secluded cabin in the Shenandoah Valley for summer vacation they don't know the small, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker: Harriet Morrow Investigates #2
by
Rob Osler
Kensington Publishing, 01/27/2026
Chicago, 1898.In the midst of the Progressive Era, twenty-one-year-old junior detective Harriet Morrow is determined to prove she's more than a lucky ...
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The Cormorant Hunt: The Cormorant Trilogy #2
by
Michael Idov
Scribner, 01/27/2026
Disheartened CIA officer Ari Falk, now hiding in the Republic of Georgia, is hailed as a hero by some and branded a traitor by others after blowing ...
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Thrillers
The Hour of the Wolf: A Memoir
by
Fatima Bhutto
Scribner, 01/27/2026
Fatima Bhutto was a teenager when her beloved father was assassinated. Ever since, she longed for a complete and happy family. Years later, still ...
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The Seven Daughters of Dupree: A Novel
by
Nikesha Elise Williams
Gallery/Scout Press, 01/27/2026
It's 1995, and fourteen-year-old Tati is determined to uncover the identity of her father. But her mother, Nadia, keeps her secrets close, while her ...
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This House Will Feed
by
Maria Tureaud
Kensington Publishing, 01/27/2026
County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything&#...
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Thrillers
Vigil: A Novel
by
George Saunders
Random House, 01/27/2026
Not for the first time, Jill "Doll" Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. ...
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Women of a Promiscuous Nature
by
Donna Everhart
Kensington Publishing, 01/27/2026
On a brisk February morning while walking to the diner where she works, 24 year-old Ruth Foster is stopped by the local sheriff. He insists she ...
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Literary Fiction
The People's Library
by
Veronica G. Henry
47North, 02/01/2026
Echo London never wanted to be the curator of the People's Library, a digital collection of human consciousness. But when she's assigned as its head ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson
by
Andrew S. Curran
Other Press, 02/02/2026
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Enlightenment natural historians and classifiers redefined what it meant to be human. By 1800, they had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future
by
Robert Wachter
Portfolio, 02/03/2026
In
A Giant Leap, physician and thought leader Robert Wachter navigates between hype and skepticism to make a compelling case for AI's power to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed
by
Scott Eden
Spiegel & Grau, 02/03/2026
Santa Cruz is one of the country's surf meccas and a favored getaway of the Silicon Valley elite. For decades, marijuana has been cultivated, consumed...
more
A Scar like a River
by
Lisa Graff
Christy Ottaviano Books, 02/03/2026
Fallon Little has a secret—and it's not how she got the enormous scar that divides her face in two.
Thirteen-year-old Fallon has only ever ...
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Autobiography of Cotton: A Novel
by
Cristina Rivera Garza
Graywolf Press, 02/03/2026
In her own groundbreaking novel,
Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents' journey from mining towns to those same ...
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Belonging to the Air: A Novel
by
Avery Irons
Screen Door Press, 02/03/2026
Their home resonates with the hum of Maddy's sewing machine, echoes of Bird preparing supper, and Odelia's stories of times past. The women live in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
by
Ian McDonald
Tordotcom, 02/03/2026
Come one, come all to the dinosaur rodeo!
Tif Tamim wants nothing more than to be a dinosaur buckaroo. An orphan in search of a place to rest his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dawn of the North: The Ashen Series; Book Three
by
Demi Winters
Delacorte Press, 02/03/2026
The lost Volsik heir has finally returned to the people of Íseldur, and even with the warrior who's captured her heart standing by her side, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dirty Metal: A Novel
by
Allison LaMothe
Flatiron Books, 02/03/2026
New York City, 1992―Meet Parker Snow, the most tenacious reporter for a tabloid paper that thrives on juicy gossip over hard-hitting news, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
by
Khameer Kidia
Crown, 02/03/2026
What if the mainstay of mental health care involved cancelling onerous debt, giving poor people free housing, and paying reparations to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Every Exit Brings You Home: A Novel
by
Naeem Murr
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/03/2026
As a financial crisis looms, Jamal "Jack" Shaban is trying to save the residents of his Chicago condo from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really?
Is ...
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Every Happiness: A Novel
by
Reena Shah
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/03/2026
Deepa and Ruchi are 12 years old when they meet at their Catholic school in India, but their connection is swift and lasting. As the two girls grow up...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Family Drama: A Novel
by
Rebecca Fallon
Simon & Schuster, 02/03/2026
In New England, Susan Bliss is a young mother married to a professor.
In LA, Susan Byrne stars in a soap opera beloved coast to coast.
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Few Blue Skies
by
Carolina Ixta
Quill Tree Books, 02/03/2026
Paloma Vistamontes is heartbroken. A year ago, her ex-boyfriend, Julio Ramos, broke up with her after his father's death, a tragedy that drove Paloma ...
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Good Intentions: A Novel
by
Marisa Walz
St. Martin's Press, 02/03/2026
Cady has worked hard to have a good life. She has a thriving luxury event-planning business, the man she's loved since she was seventeen, and a social...
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Thrillers
Debut Author
Good People: A Novel
by
Patmeena Sabit
Crown, 02/03/2026
After fleeing a war-torn Afghanistan, the Sharaf family resettles as refugees in Northern Virginia. After many years of hard work, the father has ...
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How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates: A Novel
by
Shailee Thompson
Gallery Books, 02/03/2026
When Jamie Prescott and her best friend Laurie attend a speed-dating event, Jamie expects to meet a roster of mediocre men and indulge in some street ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
In Her Defense: A Novel
by
Philippa Malicka
Scribner, 02/03/2026
Everyone is watching. Only one person knows the truth.
The whole country has been riveted by the trial: Beloved TV star and national treasure Anna ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Isles of the Emberdark: Secret Projects #5
by
Brandon Sanderson
Tor Books, 02/03/2026
All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has been a traditional trapper of Aviar―the supernatural birds his people bond with―on the deadly island ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
It's Not Her: A Twisty Thriller about Two Families and a Chilling Lake Resort Crime from the Author of Local Woman Missing
by
Mary Kubica
Park Row, 02/03/2026
A scream shatters the silence…
Courtney Gray's peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead ...
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Thrillers
Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
by
Toni Morrison
Knopf, 02/03/2026
Perhaps no novelist has meant more to contemporary fiction than Toni Morrison. And in addition to being a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, Morrison...
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Little One: A Novel
by
Olivia Muenter
Little Brown & Company, 02/03/2026
From the outside, Catharine West's childhood sounds idyllic—balmy days spent running barefoot through the gardens, plucking ripe tomatoes ...
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Literary Fiction
Mama Came Callin': A Graphic Novel
by
Ezra Claytan Daniels
William Morrow, 02/03/2026
Kirah was born from an improbable interracial relationship that, in central Florida's infamous Asurupa County, defied all the odds. But her idyllic ...
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Graphic Novels
Mass Mothering: A Novel
by
Sarah Bruni
Henry Holt and Company, 02/03/2026
A. is an amateur translator, living alone in an unforgiving, late-capitalist metropolis. Adrift and burdened by debt following a medical trauma, she ...
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One & Only
by
Maurene Goo
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/03/2026
She knows what her happily ever after looks like. And it's not him.
Cassia Park believes in soul mates. Fated love stories. It's her family ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Queen of Faces
by
Petra Lord
Henry Holt and Company, 02/03/2026
Anabelle Gage is trapped in a male body, and it's rotting from the inside out. But Ana can't afford to escape it, even as the wealthiest in Caimor buy...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Saraswati: A Novel
by
Gurnaik Johal
Pegasus Books, 02/03/2026
Centuries ago, the myths say, the holy river Saraswati flowed through what is now Northern India. But when Satnam arrives in his ancestral village for...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Simple Heart: A Novel
by
Cho Haejin
Other Press, 02/03/2026
Nana, a Korean playwright, was adopted as a child by a French couple. Before she was Nana, she was Esther Pak, a girl growing up in a Korean orphanage...
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Literary Fiction
Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
by
Keza MacDonald
Knopf, 02/03/2026
Super Nintendo is an exuberant ode to play and the epic story of the company that has redefined it—Nintendo's quirky beginnings in 1889, its ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Copywriter: A Novel
by
Daniel Poppick
Scribner, 02/03/2026
It's the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can't dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the ...
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The End of Romance: A Novel
by
Lily Meyer
Viking, 02/03/2026
Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors whose greatest priority was enjoying the life they'd snatched ...
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The Forest on the Edge of Time
by
Jasmin Kirkbride
Tor Books, 02/03/2026
Recruited by the mysterious Project Kairos to change history and save the future from ecological disaster, Echo and Hazel are transported through time...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Glowing Hours
by
Leila Siddiqui
Hell's Hundred, 02/03/2026
Summer 1816: London is a hostile place for the newly disembarked Mehrunissa Begum, who's come to deliver her brother's letter of inheritance before ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Johnson Four: A Novel
by
Christina Hammonds Reed
Ballantine Books, 02/03/2026
Odysseus Johnson dreams of musical stardom for his three sons: Roman, the rebel, more interested in being a teenager than a performer; Rocco, arguably...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Pohaku: A Novel
by
Jasmin Iolani Hakes
HarperVia, 02/03/2026
A young woman lies in a hospital bed in a coma, watched over by her estranged grandmother. Some say she jumped off the cliff; others say she was swept...
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The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love
by
Ethelene Whitmire
Viking, 02/03/2026
On the eve of World War II, a handsome young scholar arrived in Paris. The queer, Black son of a housecleaner, who had nevertheless been decorated in ...
more
The Secret of Snow: A Novel
by
Tina Harnesk
Atria Books, 02/03/2026
Meet Máriddja: eccentric, eighty-five years old, and facing a cancer diagnosis. She's determined to keep the truth about her illness from her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Shape of Dreams: A Novel
by
April Reynolds
Knopf, 02/03/2026
We're in East Harlem, in the mid-eighties, and the large and formidable (some say crazy woman) Twin Johnson discovers the body of Anita's boy, Tyrone,...
more
The Universe Box
by
Michael Swanwick
Tachyon Publications, 02/03/2026
In engaging stories, Mischling the thief races through time to defeat three trolls before the sun rises for the first time and turns the inhabitants ...
more
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
by
Yi-Ling Liu
Knopf, 02/03/2026
In the late 1990s, as the world was waking up to the power and emancipatory promise of the internet, Chinese authorities began constructing a system ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
This Book Made Me Think of You
by
Libby Page
Berkley Books, 02/03/2026
Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart…
When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there's a birthday gift from ...
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To Kill a Cook
by
W. M. Akers
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/03/2026
Nobody in Manhattan eats better than Bernice Black. It's 1972, and she is the city's busiest restaurant critic, juggling her fiance and his two young ...
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Mysteries
Until the Clock Strikes Midnight
by
Alechia Dow
Feiwel & Friends, 02/03/2026
Darling is the most talented―and unusual―Guardian to get a chance at winning the coveted once-in-a-generation Mortal Outcome Council ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel
by
Jarrett Dapier
Ten Speed Graphic, 02/03/2026
It starts as an update at one Chicago high school: copies of a certain book are no longer allowed in the classrooms or the library. But it's not just ...
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Wolf Hour: A Novel
by
Jo Nesbo
Knopf, 02/03/2026
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2016. When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a...
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A Better Life: A Novel
by
Lionel Shriver
Harper, 02/10/2026
Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new ...
more
A Slow and Secret Poison: A Novel
by
Carmella Lowkis
Atria Books, 02/10/2026
In 1925, Vee Morgan arrives at Harfold Manor, a once-grand country estate in Wiltshire, to begin her new post as gardener. She hopes the crumbling ...
more
Historical Fiction
Antihero: Orphan X #11
by
Gregg Hurwitz
Minotaur Books, 02/10/2026
Once a black ops assassin for the government known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak broke with the program and went deep underground, using his operational ...
more
Belgrave Road: A Love Story
by
Manish Chauhan
William Morrow, 02/10/2026
Mira's days are filled with duty and light on freedom. In a new country, living with a husband she barely knows—and who she fears she'll never ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection
by
Paul Eastwick
Crown, 02/10/2026
Over the past few decades, a buzzy new branch of science has spread a deeply flawed story about romantic relationships. Cloaking itself in the ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Call of the Dragon: Call of the Dragon #1
by
Natasha Bowen
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 02/10/2026
The people are calling ...
And the gods will answer.
Moremi has only ever known peace in the Kingdom of Kwa, thanks to the two dragon gods keeping...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cold Zero: A Thriller
by
Brad Thor
Atria Books, 02/10/2026
A vanished plane. An earth-shattering secret. A countdown to World War III.
Hemisphere Airlines Flight 777—the most advanced jetliner ever ...
more
Dead First
by
Johnny Compton
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/10/2026
When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton Braith, she's more than a little suspicious...
more
Thrillers
Eradication: A Fable
by
Jonathan Miles
Doubleday, 02/10/2026
Reeling from tragedy, a former jazz musician–turned–schoolteacher named Adi answers a job listing advertising a chance to save the world. ...
more
Everyday Movement
by
Gigi L. Leung
Riverhead Books, 02/10/2026
One summer morning, college roommates, Ah Lei and Panda, wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-...
more
Fireflies in Winter
by
Eleanor Shearer
Berkley Books, 02/10/2026
Nova Scotia, 1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Frog: And Other Essays
by
Anne Fadiman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/10/2026
In
Frog, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre, the essay, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter ...
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I Hope You Find What You're Looking For: A Novel
by
Bsrat Mezghebe
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/10/2026
The year is 1991. Eritrea is on the verge of liberation from Ethiopian rule and in Washington, D.C.'s tight-knit Eritrean community, change is in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America's Caregiving Crisis
by
Laura Mauldin
Ecco, 02/10/2026
When twenty-seven-year-old Laura Mauldin moved to New York for graduate school, she fell headlong into love. But just months into the relationship, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Lithium
by
Malén Denis
New Directions Publishing, 02/10/2026
Malén Denis's
Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. "Language in this book," the author notes, "acts as a
pharmakon...more
Murder Bimbo: A Novel
by
Rebecca Novack
Avid Reader Press, 02/10/2026
A thirty-two-year-old sex worker is shocked when she's approached by undercover government agents to aid them in a top-secret plot to assassinate a ...
more
One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate
by
Ej Dickson
Simon Element, 02/10/2026
We all have an idea what it means to be a good mom: little screen time, kids hitting their milestones, endless patience and understanding, and self-...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain's Uncrowned Queen
by
Ann Foster
Hanover Square Press, 02/10/2026
Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Princess of Brunswick, was born in the northern German town of Braunschweig. Her mother and father, the duke and duchess, ...
more
She Made Herself a Monster: A Novel
by
Anna Kovatcheva
Mariner Books, 02/10/2026
We make monsters in order to destroy them. For thousands of years, we've named witches and burned them, suspected demons and exorcised them. When ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Final Problem: A Novel
by
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Mulholland, 02/10/2026
June, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic Greek island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel. ...
more
The Jills: A Novel
by
Karen Parkman
Ballantine Books, 02/10/2026
Virginia is a Jill—a professional Buffalo Bills cheerleader—living the life she's always dreamed of. She spends her weekdays practicing, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Midnight Taxi
by
Yosha Gunasekera
Berkley Books, 02/10/2026
Siriwathi Perera doesn't quite know where she's going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab driver in New York City, struggling to make ends ...
more
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family
by
Dorothy Roberts
One Signal, 02/10/2026
Dorothy Roberts grew up in a deeply segregated Chicago of the 1960s where relationships barely crossed the "colorline." Yet inside her own home, where...
more
The Renovation: A Novel
by
Kenan Orhan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/10/2026
In Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since leaving her native Istanbul, she's been ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Wandering Queen: A Novel of Dido
by
Claire Heywood
Dutton, 02/10/2026
When the King of Tyre dies, he decrees that the rule of the kingdom will pass equally to both his children: Elissa, his clever and strong-willed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
they
by
Helle Helle
New Directions Publishing, 02/10/2026
Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another,
they―the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in ...
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This Is Not About Us: Fiction
by
Allegra Goodman
The Dial Press, 02/10/2026
When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn ...
more
Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
by
Robert M. Hazen
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/10/2026
Of the codified laws of nature, famously, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
To the Death
by
Andrea Tang
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 02/10/2026
Eighteen-year-old Samantha Chan wants only one thing: revenge for her brother's death in an illegal magical duel. Ever since that terrible day, she's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wild Grace: The Untamed Women of Modern Dance
by
Sara Veale
Faber and Faber, 02/10/2026
In
Wild Grace, Sara Veale profiles nine of the pioneering North American dancers at the heart of this movement. She shows how Isadora Duncan and Loie ...
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World's Edge: A Mosaic Novel
by
James Sallis
Soho Press, 02/10/2026
All I wanted was for my life, when you picked it up in your hands, to have some weight to it.
In a not-so-distant future the United States has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
You & Me and You & Me and You & Me
by
Josie Lloyd
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/10/2026
Then Adam stumbles across a box of old mixtapes he and Jules made for each other when they were young and falling in love. He dusts off his vintage ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cleaner: A Novel
by
Jess Shannon
Scribner, 02/12/2026
A young artist returns to her childhood home, with a host of degrees and diplomas in her back pocket. But when forced to confront the reality that the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
by
Gisèle Pelicot
Penguin Press, 02/17/2026
In 2024, Gisèle Pelicot inspired millions of people with her astonishing courage and dignity as she chose to waive her right to anonymity in her ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Bad Asians: A Novel
by
Lillian Li
Henry Holt and Company, 02/17/2026
Diana, Justin, Errol, and Vivian have always been told that success is guaranteed by following a simple checklist. They worked hard, got A's, and ...
more
Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth
by
Daisy Hernández
Hogarth Books, 02/17/2026
In this one-of-a-kind book, Daisy Hernández fiercely interrogates one of the most complicated subjects of contemporary life and politics: ...
more
Everything Lost Returns: A Novel
by
Sarah Domet
Flatiron Books, 02/17/2026
1986. The Earthshine Soap Company has given Nona Dixon everything, from making her the brand's first Earthshine Girl to launching her acting career. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Evil Genius: A Novel
by
Claire Oshetsky
Ecco, 02/17/2026
It's 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen-year-old Celia Dent keeps telling herself how lucky she is to be working at a ...
more
First Sign of Danger: Haven's Rock #4
by
Kelley Armstrong
Minotaur Books, 02/17/2026
Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are entering a new chapter of life as parents to their six-month-old baby. Their family ...
more
Mysteries
Head of Household
by
Oliver Munday
Simon & Schuster, 02/17/2026
From stories about a father who shows up hungover to chaperone his daughter's kindergarten bowling trip, to another who rediscovers his love of ...
more
Her Last Breath: A Novel
by
Taylor Adams
William Morrow, 02/17/2026
After years of excuses, Tess has finally agreed to go caving with her best friend Allie. Their lives have diverged sharply since high school—...
more
Holy Boy: A Novel
by
Lee Heejoo
HarperVia, 02/17/2026
Four wildly different women are consumed by Yosep, a dreamy twenty-one-year-old K-pop idol known as "the boy."
Ahna, a woman in her forties, first ...
more
Lean Cat, Savage Cat: A Novel
by
Lauren John Joseph
Catapult, 02/17/2026
Alone at a party, sipping her celery sour, Charli knows she's in a rut. Kicking around with the rest of London's bohemian dropouts, she has no idea ...
more
Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
by
Mark Haddon
Doubleday, 02/17/2026
Simultaneously heart-breaking and hilarious,
Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. His parents were not really cut...
more
No Brainer
by
Lea Beddia
Orca Book Publishers, 02/17/2026
She doesn't like tight jeans and doesn't feel comfortable in a bra. But one boy in her gym class, Jerry, harasses Liv with rude comments about her ...
more
Literary Fiction
Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love
by
Reverend James Lawson Jr, Emily Yellin
Random House, 02/17/2026
Rev. Lawson was one of the most influential yet unheralded heroes of the civil rights era. He rose as a strategist, teacher, and organizer in pivotal ...
more
On Morrison
by
Namwali Serpell
Hogarth Books, 02/17/2026
Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed ...
more
Our Numbered Bones: A Novel
by
Katya Balen
HarperVia, 02/17/2026
She hopes the solitude might unblock the novel she can't bring herself to write.
Out in the marshes, the locals discover something shocking, risen ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Postscript
by
Cory McCarthy
Dutton for Young Readers, 02/17/2026
On the far side of a swift and unknowable apocalypse, a few sapiens are surviving off the last scraps of humanity. No longer recognizable as Cape Cod,...
more
Railsong: A Novel
by
Rahul Bhattacharya
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/17/2026
In a country rapidly modernizing after independence, Animesh Chitol bends his caste title into a quirky surname, moves his family to the brand-new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Astral Library: A Novel
by
Kate Quinn
William Morrow, 02/17/2026
Alexandria "Alix" Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
by
Shelley Puhak
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/17/2026
There have long been whispers, coming from the castle; from the village square; from the dark woods. The great lady-a countess, from one of Europe's ...
more
The Disappearing Act
by
Maria Stepanova
New Directions Publishing, 02/17/2026
The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers ...
more
The Sun and the Starmaker
by
Rachel Griffin
Sourcebooks Fire, 02/17/2026
Nestled deep in the snowy mountains of the Lost Range, the village of Reverie is a small miracle. Beyond the reach of the Sun, Reverie is dependent ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Traversal
by
Maria Popova
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/17/2026
What is life?
What is death?
What makes a body a person?
What makes a planet a world?
In
Traversal, Maria Popova ...
more
When I Kill You: A Novel
by
B.A. Paris
St. Martin's Press, 02/17/2026
Who is watching Nell Masters?
Nell Masters is certain someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from...
more
Thrillers
A Crown of Stars
by
Shana Abe
Kensington Publishing, 02/24/2026
In turn of the century England, the Jolivet family lives a charmed existence. Daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner and a French pianist, vivacious ...
more
Historical Fiction
A Good Animal: A Novel
by
Sara Maurer
St. Martin's Press, 02/24/2026
Staying is his dream. Leaving is hers. One secret threatens them both.
In the farm country outside Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan―a border town ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
by
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press, 02/24/2026
When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: it feels like ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
After The Fall
by
Edward Ashton
St. Martin's Press, 02/24/2026
Humans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good.
All his life, John has tried to live by those rules. Most days, it's not too ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blood Relay: A Novel
by
Devon Mihesuah
Bantam Books, 02/24/2026
Choctaw Detective Perry Antelope has been with her partner, Sophia Burns, for only six months. Perry is a seasoned investigator while the ex-Olympian ...
more
Brawler: Stories
by
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books, 02/24/2026
Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff's electric collection is an individual triumph, bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in ...
more
Cleopatra: A Novel
by
Saara El-Arifi
Ballantine Books, 02/24/2026
Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.
Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods ...
more
Historical Fiction
Crown City: Japantown Mysteries #3
by
Naomi Hirahara
Soho Crime, 02/24/2026
Pasadena, 1903: Eighteen-year-old Ryunosuke "Ryui" Wada staggers off the boat from Yokohama, Japan, ready to reinvent himself after the untimely ...
more
Encounters with Unexpected Animals: Stories
by
Bret Anthony Johnston
Random House, 02/24/2026
Encounters with Unexpected Animals takes readers deep into the heart of bestselling author Bret Anthony Johnston's home state of Texas, where ...
more
Get Home Safe: A Guide to Self-Defense and Building Our Collective Power
by
Rana Abdelhamid
Algonquin Books, 02/24/2026
Abdelhamid wants every woman and survivor of gender-based violence to be able to defend themselves, and every community to build collective safety. ...
more
Biography/Memoir
How to Get Away with Murder: A Novel
by
Rebecca Philipson
Minotaur Books, 02/24/2026
This fresh debut thriller finds a Scotland Yard detective trying to find the author of a self-help book that promises quite literally to teach readers...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
I Am the Ghost Here: Stories
by
Kim Samek
The Dial Press, 02/24/2026
A woman's limbs disappear into "the cloud" during wildfire-induced power outages. A lonely DoorDasher accidentally becomes the star of someone else's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
I Give You My Silence: A Novel
by
Mario Vargas Llosa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/24/2026
Toño Azpilcueta, writer of sundry articles, aspirant to the now defunct professorship of Peruvian studies, is an expert in the vals, a genre of ...
more
I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
by
Matt Kaplan
St. Martin's Press, 02/24/2026
For two decades, Matt Kaplan has covered science for the
Economist. He's seen breakthroughs often occur in spite of, rather than because of, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Kin: A Novel
by
Tayari Jones
Knopf, 02/24/2026
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are ...
more
More Than Enough: A Novel
by
Anna Quindlen
Random House, 02/24/2026
High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they've become her ...
more
Mule Boy
by
Andrew Krivak
Bellevue Literary Press, 02/24/2026
On New Year's Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule boy. He ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Saoirse: A Novel
by
Charleen Hurtubise
Celadon, 02/24/2026
In Michigan, Sarah's childhood was defined by fear and silence. As a teenager, she saw a chance to escape and took it. Now, in 1999, she is an artist ...
more
The Crossroads: Joe Pickett Novel
by
C.J. Box
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 02/24/2026
Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.
Joe was found in ...
more
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
by
Josh Ireland
Dutton, 02/24/2026
On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as Jacques Mornard into his study. Mornard waited for Trotsky to sit, then smashed an ice ...
more
The Girl and the Gravedigger: A Leopold von Herzfeldt Case #2
by
Oliver Pötzsch
HarperVia, 02/24/2026
Vienna 1894. Augustin Rothmayer, the oddball gravedigger from Vienna's Central Cemetery, is approached by Inspector Leopold von Herzfeldt with an ...
more
The Girls Before: A Novel
by
Kate Alice Marshall
Flatiron Books, 02/24/2026
There is a girl in a basement.
The door has stopped opening.
The light is gone.
Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her ...
more
The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
by
Beth Ann Fennelly
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/24/2026
What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In
The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that ...
more
The Red Winter
by
Cameron Sullivan
Tor Books, 02/24/2026
In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Reservation: A Novel
by
Rebecca Kauffman
Counterpoint Press, 02/24/2026
On the morning of the most important booking in the long history of the celebrated restaurant, Aunt Orsa's erupts into chaos with the discovery that ...
more
The Silent Period: A Novel
by
Francesca Manfredi
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/24/2026
Cristina Martino is twenty-eight and adrift. Underemployed at a university library in Turin, Italy, she still lives at home with her parents, in the ...
more
The Trident and the Pearl: The Fisher King #1
by
Sarah K. L. Wilson
Orbit, 02/24/2026
Queen Coralys rules the Kingdom of the Five Isles, but when disaster strikes, killing her husband and destroying half her nation, she pleads with the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Violin Maker's Secret
by
Evie Woods
HarperCollins Publishers, 02/24/2026
Baggage claim agent Devlin, retired teacher Walter, and appraiser Gabrielle should have nothing in common, but when a single choice sets in motion a ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Where the False Gods Dwell
by
Denny S. Bryce
Kensington Publishing, 02/24/2026
Chicago, 1935. Othella is an orphaned con artist who needs to escape the city's brutal underworld ... or else. Vivian Jean is a wealthy wife, student,...
more
Historical Fiction
White River Crossing: A Novel
by
Ian McGuire
Crown, 02/24/2026
A ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company in the winter of 1766 with a lump of gold, claiming that there is plenty ...
more
The Determined
by
Rachel Rueckert
Kensington Publishing, 02/26/2026
1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant, twenty-three-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer Captain Charles ...
more
Historical Fiction
Big Nobody: A Novel
by
Alex Kadis
Random House, 03/01/2026
I think it's safe to say that my father was probably always an abomination of nature.
It's 1974 in London and Connie Costa's already pitiful life...
more
A Bad, Bad Place
by
Frances Crawford
Soho Crime, 03/03/2026
If it hadn't been for her wee stupid dog Sid Vicious, 12-year-old Janey Devine might never have stumbled upon the corpse of Samantha Watson. And then ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Far-flung Life
by
M.L. Stedman
Scribner, 03/03/2026
When we do something that can't be undone or mended, how do we go on living? How do we find our North Star when there is no right answer? These are ...
more
An Arrow in Flight: Selected Stories of Mary Lavin
by
Mary Lavin
Scribner, 03/03/2026
During her lifetime, Irish American writer Mary Lavin was a prominent literary figure. Throughout the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, her stories were ...
more
Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
by
Benjamin Hale
Harper, 03/03/2026
This story begins in 2001 on top of Cave Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks. A six-year-old girl named Haley—Benjamin Hale's cousin—got lost ...
more
City Like Water: A Novel
by
Dorothy Tse
Graywolf Press, 03/03/2026
So much has vanished with it―classmates, teachers, counterfeit watches, the erotic toe cleavage that used to lead the way down secret passages. ...
more
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
by
Andy Beta
Da Capo, 03/03/2026
Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) was one of the most misunderstood artists of the last sixty years. For most of her life—and even in the decades since...
more
Biography/Memoir
Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution
by
Anand Gopal
Simon & Schuster, 03/03/2026
In 2011, in a northern Syrian city, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew a brutal dictatorship. For the next eighteen months...
more
El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
by
Jazmine Ulloa
Dutton, 03/03/2026
El Paso has been called the "Ellis Island" of America's southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets ...
more
Estela, Undrowning
by
René Peña-Govea
Quill & Quire, 03/03/2026
Estela Morales is one of the only Latinas who tested into San Francisco's most exclusive public high school. In her senior year, Estela just wants to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Good Woman: A Reckoning
by
Savala Nolan
Mariner Books, 03/03/2026
Gorgeous, badass, and practically waiting to pounce,
Good Woman: A Reckoning is acclaimed essayist Savala Nolan's follow-up to her "standout ...
more
Gravity: Poems
by
Elizabeth Rosner
Counterpoint Press, 03/03/2026
Composed over a period of some twenty years,
Gravity is Elizabeth Rosner's profoundly searching account of her experience as the daughter of Holocaust...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Gunk: A Novel
by
Saba Sams
Knopf, 03/03/2026
Jules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for five years, but she still works with him at Gunk, the grotty student nightclub he owns in central...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Her Hidden Fire
by
Cliodhna O'Sullivan
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 03/03/2026
In a world where dragons soar through the skies and magical abilities are an elite privilege, the ruling family of Ailm's Keep is on a knife-edge: Can...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
How Simi Got Her Groom Back: A Novel
by
Sonali Dev
Lake Union Publishing, 03/03/2026
Two sisters. One fake marriage. Zero chance of keeping the truth hidden.
The Naik sisters escaped their traumatic past in Mumbai to come to the ...
more
Romance
Lady Tremaine: A Novel
by
Rachel Hochhauser
St. Martin's Press, 03/03/2026
Twice-widowed, Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley is solely responsible for her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, a razor-taloned ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Lake Effect: A Novel
by
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Ecco, 03/03/2026
It's 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming ...
more
Lies We Tell About the Stars
by
Susie Nadler
Dutton for Young Readers, 03/03/2026
Celeste Muldoon is alone when the Big One finally hits, because, for the first time ever, her best friend stood her up after school. Nicky and Celeste...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Medium Rare
by
A. Natasha Joukovsky
Melville House, 03/03/2026
Phil is ordinary. A mid-level Washington lobbyist for a decidedly unsexy organization, unhappy in the way all mildly successful, minimally influential...
more
Night Night Fawn: A Novel
by
Jordy Rosenberg
One World, 03/03/2026
In a cluttered rent-controlled apartment in the middle of Manhattan, Barbara Rosenberg—old world yenta, committed homophobe, accomplished ...
more
No One's Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There's Nowhere Else to Turn
by
Kevin Hazzard
Grand Central Publishing, 03/03/2026
July 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten infected. The virus ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Now I Surrender: A Novel
by
Álvaro Enrigue
Riverhead Books, 03/03/2026
Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional,
Now I Surrender radically recasts the story of how ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
by
Sarah Ruden
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/03/2026
The belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to "traditional" values is a dangerous myth that has long prospered in American ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ruby Falls: A Novel
by
Gin Phillips
Atlantic Crime, 03/03/2026
In 1928, a Chattanooga man disappears down a hole in the ground and discovers a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain that he names after his...
more
Skating Wilder
by
Brandon Dumais
Flying Eye Books, 03/03/2026
No one can tell you exactly who invented it, but it has inspired generations of brave warriors to hit the curbs. This book flies through skateboarding...
more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
by
Helen Garner
Pantheon Books, 03/03/2026
A woman sends postcards to a former lover from the idyllic Gold Coast. A chorus of hometown voices gossip about a wayward friend returned. A young ...
more
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
by
Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books, 03/03/2026
In this sequel to her enduring bestseller
Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the ...
more
The Body Builders: A Novel
by
Albertine Clarke
Bloomsbury Publishing, 03/03/2026
Ada lives a solitary life. She spends her days in her London apartment building's swimming pool, occasionally visiting with her cousin Francesca and ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bookstore Diaries
by
Susan Mallery
MIRA, 03/03/2026
Jax has a slight issue with control—as in, she needs it. Always. Too bad she has power only over the Painted Lady Bookstore, the Victorian ...
more
Romance
The Disappointment: A Novel
by
Scott Broker
Catapult, 03/03/2026
It's the night before a much-needed vacation, and Jack—a former playwright mourning his failed career—catches his husband, Randy, packing ...
more
The Politician: A DS George Cross Mystery
by
Tim Sullivan
Atlantic Crime, 03/03/2026
DS George Cross loves puzzles – he's good at them – and he immediately spots one when he begins investigating the death of former mayor ...
more
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives
by
Elizabeth Arnott
Berkley Books, 03/03/2026
Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the ...
more
The Violet Hour: A Novel
by
James Cahill
Pegasus Books, 03/03/2026
Thomas Haller has achieved the kind of fame that most artists only dream of: shows in London and New York, paintings sold for a fortune. The vision he...
more
Turn Off the Light: A Novel
by
Jacquie Walters
Little Brown & Company, 03/03/2026
The Devil enters through doors left open…
On the isolated Eastern Shore of Virginia, Edith is a healer, a woman of knowledge—and a ...
more
Thrillers
Where the Girls Were: A Novel
by
Kate Schatz
The Dial Press, 03/03/2026
It's 1968, and the future is bright for seventeen-year-old Elizabeth "Baker" Phillips: She's the valedictorian of her high school, with a place at ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Wild People Quiet: A Novel
by
Tara Gereaux
Scribner Canada, 03/03/2026
Torduvalle, Saskatchewan, 1946.
Florence has created a beautiful life for herself. Her home is immaculate; she is a model employee at Pratt's ...
more
Literary Fiction
A Lady for All Seasons: A Novel
by
TJ Alexander
Vintage, 03/10/2026
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman who has lost her fortune must be in need (not want) of a husband. Beautiful, cunning Verbena ...
more
A Scandal in Königsberg
by
Christopher Clark
Penguin Press, 03/10/2026
In 1835, Johannes Ebel and Georg Heinrich Diestel were tried for having started a cult. Worse: It was a cult that encouraged scandalous sexual ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
by
Lindy West
Grand Central Publishing, 03/10/2026
Through
Shrill—the book and then the Hulu series—Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day she is stopped on the street and hailed as ...
more
All the World Can Hold
by
Jung Yun
37 Ink, 03/10/2026
It's Sunday, September 16, 2001. Franny and her husband have traded in their elegant Park Avenue co-op for a suite on board the Sonata, a once-...
more
Literary Fiction
Almost Life: A Novel
by
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Summit Books, 03/10/2026
Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacré-Coeur in Paris, 1978. Erica is a student, relishing her first summer abroad before beginning ...
more
Armaveni: A Graphic Novel of the Armenian Genocide
by
Nadine Takvorian
Levine Querido, 03/10/2026
Nadine loves stories and her mother loves to tell them—all but one. Nadine would give anything to learn about her family's history in Armenia ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Defying China: A Memoir
by
Tsultrim Dolma
Dial Books, 03/10/2026
Tsultrim Dolma, born in a tiny village in the stunning mountains of eastern Tibet, always knew there had to be more than the life expected of her: ...
more
Down Time: A Novel
by
Andrew Martin
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/10/2026
Without Cassandra, Aaron would probably be dead. Fortunately, she won't leave him―despite the drinking, flirting, solipsism, armchair socialism,...
more
Fatherland: A Novel
by
Victoria Shorr
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/10/2026
Martin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life ... except Martin is having yet another affair. Without ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
How to Survive in the Woods: A Novel
by
Kat Rosenfield
Harper, 03/10/2026
Raised by a doomsday prepper and hardened by the startup world, Emma Sharp has learned how to endure—especially in her marriage to Logan Grant, ...
more
Thrillers
Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans' Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025
by
Paul C. Rosier
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/10/2026
Indigenous Citizens chronicles Native Americans' extraordinary resilience and resistance to colonialism, coercive assimilation programs such as Indian...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
It Girl: A Novel
by
Allison Pataki
Ballantine Books, 03/10/2026
At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York's streets teem with change: electricity, automobiles, the brash young President Teddy Roosevelt—...
more
Historical Fiction
Judy Blume: A Life
by
Mark Oppenheimer
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 03/10/2026
To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics—including
Are You There God? It's Me, ...more
King of Nothing
by
Nathanael Lessore
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/10/2026
Anton Charles and his friends are the kings of the school, and they rule with an iron fist, intimidating classmates and maintaining a reputation built...
more
No Friend to This House: A Novel
by
Natalie Haynes
Harper, 03/10/2026
This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been forgotten, by everyone but me ...
Jason...more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Nonesuch: A Novel
by
Francis Spufford
Scribner, 03/10/2026
Following the acclaim of his previous novels
Golden Hill and
Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford delivers a masterpiece of literary fantasy, hailed by Joe ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Once and Again: A Novel
by
Rebecca Serle
Atria Books, 03/10/2026
The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time.
Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her ...
more
Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
by
Daniel Kraus
Counterpoint Press, 03/10/2026
Daniel Kraus first saw George A. Romero's
Night of the Living Dead when he was five years old. Through watching it approximately three hundred times ...
more
Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal?, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During W?o?rld War II
by
Evelyn Iritani
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/10/2026
In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater's bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coup― the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett's Bookshop
by
Jeannine A. Cook
Amistad, 03/10/2026
Jeannine Cook always thought she'd open a bookshop in her old age. Raised by a blind librarian, books were integral to her life, and she expected she ...
more
South of Somewhere
by
T.I. Lowe
Tyndale House Publishers, 03/10/2026
When Juniper Wilder's grief spiraled into addiction, leading first to an arrest for drunk driving, then jail and court-ordered rehab, she lost the ...
more
Romance
Spoiled Milk: A Novel
by
Avery Curran
Doubleday, 03/10/2026
In 1928, Emily Locke's final year at the isolated Briarley School for Girls is derailed when Violet, the school's brightest star (and a cunning beauty...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Strange Girls: A Novel
by
Sarvat Hasin
Dutton, 03/10/2026
A decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. During the years of silence, Ava's life has remained at a standstill, while Aliya got the one thing they...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Complex: A Novel
by
Karan Mahajan
Viking, 03/10/2026
In a sprawling complex in Delhi, the sons and daughters of SP Chopra, one of India's political architects, live together vying for influence in a ...
more
The Golden Boy
by
Patricia Finn
Cardinal, 03/10/2026
After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife ...
more
The Midnight Muse
by
Jo Kaplan
CLASH, 03/10/2026
The dead collect in low places. That's what Brynn Werner, lead singer of metal band Queen Carrion, wrote in her notebook before she vanished while ...
more
The Pie & Mash Detective Agency
by
J.D. Brinkworth
Berkley Books, 03/10/2026
Jane Pye and Simon Mash are a millennial couple with a little extra time on their hands. Jane was recently let go from her position as a back-end ...
more
This Story Might Save Your Life: A Novel
by
Tiffany Crum
Flatiron Books, 03/10/2026
Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most beloved podcasts in the world. Each week, they delight listeners with a different "against all odds" ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Westward Women: A Novel
by
Alice Martin
St. Martin's Press, 03/10/2026
It starts with an itch.
In homes across the country, women ages eighteen to thirty-five begin to slow down.
Tired. Blank. Restless.
...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Whidbey: A Novel
by
T Kira Madden
Mariner Books, 03/10/2026
Birdie Chang didn't know anything about Whidbey Island when she chose it, only that it was about as far away as she could get from her own life. She's...
more
Transcription: A Novel
by
Ben Lerner
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/12/2026
The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview ...
more
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
by
Ibram X. Kendi
One World, 03/17/2026
Recall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia, but heard around the world: "You will not replace us!" Recall the string of mass shooters ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Heiress of Nowhere
by
Stacey Lee
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 03/17/2026
1918. Orcas Island, Washington.
Lucy Nowhere has spent her eighteen years working on the vast estate of the eccentric shipbuilder who took her in ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Hovel: A Novel
by
Ailsa Ross
Strange Light, 03/17/2026
Homesickness takes many forms. Alone in the mountains because of her husband's job, occupied by little more than online video captioning she calls "...
more
Literary Fiction
I Am Agatha: A Novel
by
Nancy Foley
Avid Reader Press, 03/17/2026
Agatha, a bristly painter fleeing her own darkness, decamps to rural New Mexico to live the reclusive life of a small-town curmudgeon. It is there she...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I Love You Don't Die: A Novel
by
Jade Song
William Morrow, 03/17/2026
For as far back as she can remember, Vicky has been fascinated and obsessed with death as the only inevitable thing in life. From living above a ...
more
In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
by
Daniel Rood
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/17/2026
We imagine the plantation―the big house, the porticos, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields―as situated firmly in the dismal ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Life: A Love Story: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Berg
Random House, 03/17/2026
As 92-year old "Flo" Green writes a long letter to Ruthie, the woman who, as a little girl, lived next door to Flo, she thinks,
This is an ...more
Lucien: A Novel
by
J.R. Thornton
Harper, 03/17/2026
The son of working-class Czech immigrants, Christopher "Atlas" Novotny is a talented painter who arrives at Harvard on a full scholarship. Raised amid...
more
Mother Is Watching: A Novel
by
Karma Brown
Dutton, 03/17/2026
Mathilde "Tilly" Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and art conservator, is tasked with restoring
The Mother. The painting, believed to be the ...
more
My Lover, the Rabbi: A Novel
by
Wayne Koestenbaum
FSG Originals, 03/17/2026
The rabbi is, to the untrained eye, far from desirable. Lofty and disorderly, aging and constantly losing members of his flock, he is nonetheless the ...
more
Of Loss and Lavender: A Novel
by
Sinan Antoon
Other Press, 03/17/2026
Sami, a retired doctor, lives with his son and grandchildren in Brooklyn. As he tries to navigate this new city, it becomes increasingly clear he is ...
more
Literary Fiction
One Word, Six Letters
by
Adib Khorram
Henry Holt and Company, 03/17/2026
Freshmen Dayton and Farshid couldn't be more different―or so it seems.
When Dayton takes a dare and shouts the f-slur at a visiting author ...
more
Only Spell Deep
by
Ava Morgyn
St. Martin's Griffin, 03/17/2026
Judeth Cole has always had certain uncanny abilities. But when she arrived at Solidago - her grandfather's estate by the sea - she was forced to keep ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Paradiso 17: A Novel
by
Hannah Lillith Assadi
Knopf, 03/17/2026
All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien's shoe.
Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948's Nakba, Sufien is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Sisters in Yellow: A Novel
by
Mieko Kawakami
Knopf, 03/17/2026
Hana has nothing – she's fifteen years old and living in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive ...
more
The Feather Wars: and the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds
by
James H. McCommons
St. Martin's Press, 03/17/2026
With the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon―a bird once so numerous that its flocks darkened the sky in flight―many realized actions...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Fountain: A Novel
by
Casey Scieszka
Harper, 03/17/2026
Vera Van Valkenburgh hasn't been home in one hundred and eighty-eight years. But now Vera, forever twenty-six and able to heal from any wound, has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The House of Hidden Letters
by
Izzy Broom
Berkley Books, 03/17/2026
For sale: Greek cottage. One euro.
Skye MacKinnon is desperate for an escape. When she wins a lottery to buy a run-down cottage on a Greek island ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Lost Daughter of Sparta
by
Felicia Day
Gallery Books, 03/17/2026
Helen of Troy. Clytemnestra. Timandra.
Three sisters, infamously cursed by the goddess Aphrodite to betray their husbands, are known the world ...
more
Graphic Novels
The Monroe Girls
by
Antoine Volodine
Archipelago Books, 03/17/2026
Breton has seen brighter days. Now his body sags as he pulls a pair of binoculars to his withered face. He peers from the grimy window of a near-empty...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Plans I Have for You: A Novel
by
Lai Sanders
Simon & Schuster, 03/17/2026
When a conflict with a fellow passenger on the subway spirals into a humiliating breakdown, Shelley Hu's life is over. The incident goes viral, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Spoil: A Novel
by
Maile Chapman
Graywolf Press, 03/17/2026
Meanwhile, she and her stepbrother, thrown uneasily together by disaster and divorce, grow increasingly convinced that a malevolent presence resides ...
more
Under Water: A Novel
by
Tara Menon
Riverhead Books, 03/17/2026
After Marissa loses her mother at five, the most intimate relationship of her life begins. Her marine biologist father, determined to channel his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
You Did Nothing Wrong: A Novel
by
CG Drews
St. Martin's Griffin, 03/17/2026
Single mother Elodie's life has become a fairy tale. She's met Bren, equal parts Golden-retriever-devoted and sinfully handsome. He's whisked her and ...
more
Thrillers
Honeysuckle: A Novel
by
Bar Fridman-Tell
Bloomsbury Publishing, 03/19/2026
Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exchange for being left ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Beautiful Loan: A Novel
by
Mary Costello
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/24/2026
My name is Anna, and for some time now, I have been trying to account for certain events in my life—my adult life, that is—which, from ...more
A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems
by
Maggie Smith
Washington Square Press, 03/24/2026
The title of Maggie Smith's new collection comes from the eponymous poem:
You ask what I'll miss about this life.
Everything but cruelty, I ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Beneath: A Novel (The Rebirth Series)
by
Ariel Sullivan
Ballantine Books, 03/24/2026
Twenty-three-year-old Sasha Cadell knows time is running out in the underground city, filled with survivors of the nuclear fallout six years ago. She ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Celestial Lights: A Novel
by
Cecile Pin
Henry Holt and Company, 03/24/2026
January 28, 1986: soon after launch the
Challenger shuttle falls out of the sky and into the sea. At the same time, Oliver Ines, the most renowned ...
more
Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire
by
Simukai Chigudu
Crown, 03/24/2026
Simukai Chigudu grew up in the shadow of Africa's struggles for liberation. As he navigates the tangled threads of personal and political history, he ...
more
Crazy Genie
by
Inès Cagnati
NYRB Classics, 03/24/2026
Marie lives with her mother, Genie, in a ramshackle house by a willow-lined river in rural France. Every morning, Genie walks to the neighboring farms...
more
Literary Fiction
Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
by
Rhae Lynn Barnes
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 03/24/2026
Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. With
Darkology, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Daughter of Egypt: A Novel
by
Marie Benedict
St. Martin's Griffin, 03/24/2026
In the 1920s, archeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle made headlines around the world with the discovery of the treasure-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries
by
David George Haskell
Viking, 03/24/2026
We live on a floral planet, yet flowers don't get the credit they deserve. We admire them for their aesthetics, not their power. In this exquisite ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
In The Fields of Fatherless Children: A Novel
by
Pamela Steele
Counterpoint Press, 03/24/2026
In late 1960s Appalachia, many things loom darkly over June Branham: the Vietnam War is dividing the country, and a strip mine is eating away the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Python's Kiss: Stories
by
Louise Erdrich
Harper, 03/24/2026
It was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in ...more
Robbie McNeil's Hit List: A Mystery
by
Brianna Heath
Poisoned Pen Press, 03/24/2026
For this hitwoman, curiosity may be killer.
Contract killer Robbie McNeil never asks questions. Her mission is simple. Do the job. Get paid. Get ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
by
Amal El-Mohtar
Tordotcom, 03/24/2026
Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work ...
more
Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe's First Family
by
Veronica Buckley
Viking, 03/24/2026
"Others make war; you, happy Austria, marry."
For three centuries, the astute positioning of their many princesses and princes had kept the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Beheading Game: A Novel
by
Rebecca Lehmann
Crown, 03/24/2026
"Nobody was surprised at Anne's conviction. The world loves to put a woman in her place."
The Beheading Game begins in the hours after Anne Boleyn...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks
by
Eka Kurniawan
New Directions Publishing, 03/24/2026
Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village―until the day he must be circumcised...
more
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
by
Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Berkley Books, 03/24/2026
Spirited Zina and her secretive grandmother, Baba Valya, own a tearoom on rue Daru in Paris, where they have lived quietly since Zina's mother's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Free Verse Society
by
Delali Adjoa
Peachtree Teen, 03/24/2026
No one in Delray knows Jae Aƒenyo's story—that she's a teen mom who placed her baby for adoption—and she intends to keep it that way....
more
Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Two Kinds of Stranger: Eddie Flynn #9
by
Steve Cavanagh
Atria Books, 03/24/2026
One offers a helping hand. The other is your worst nightmare...
Social media influencer, Elly Parker, had the perfect life, that is until she ...
more
Wolf Worm
by
T. Kingfisher
Tor Nightfire, 03/24/2026
"I saw the devil in these woods."
Sonia Wilson is a talented scientific illustrator―but she is only able to follow her dream because of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Cellar Below the Cellar: A Folk Horror Novella
by
Ivy Grimes
Violet Lichen, 03/25/2026
When a wild solar storm wipes out all electronics and traps Jane at her grandmother's house in the woods, she is forced to start a new life off-grid ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
All Carry: A Novel
by
Gene Wojciechowski
Crown, 03/31/2026
Joe is a golf reporter. He's missed more Father's Days than he cares to count because that's when he has to cover the US Open. But his son Buddy has ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
American Han: A Novel
by
Lisa Lee
Algonquin Books, 03/31/2026
Jane went on to law school. Kevin came close to becoming a professional tennis player.
But where they started is nowhere near where they have ended...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
by
Jenny Lawson
Penguin Books, 03/31/2026
Jenny Lawson is full of contradictions. She's a celebrated author but battles self-doubt, paralysis, and anxiety. She's an award-winning humorist but ...
more
How to Survive the End of the World: A Graphic Exploration of How to (Maybe) Avoid Extinction
by
Katy Doughty
Candlewick Press, 03/31/2026
Since 99.9 percent of all species that have lived are extinct, it's bound to be our turn eventually, right? So what's most likely to kill us? A well-...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
by
Serena Kutchinsky
Scribner, 03/31/2026
When she was eleven years old, Serena Kutchinsky's life changed forever. Her father Paul, who owned the high-end jewelry company the House of ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Merry-Go-Round Broke Down: A Novel of Guilt, Greed & Globalization
by
David Woo, Margalit Shinar
Regalo Press, 03/31/2026
Fall 2008. The Waldorf Astoria New York. Two armed men storm the hotel's famed bar and hold the occupants hostage: an American corporate raider, a ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
by
A.M. Gittlitz
Astra House, 03/31/2026
Metropolitans is for Mets fans, New York partisans, and everyone interested in the Mobius strip dynamic of sports and politics, the history of the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mothers and Other Strangers: A Novel
by
Corey Ann Haydu
Little Brown & Company, 03/31/2026
When Sydney and Mae meet on the playground as toddlers, it seems like kismet. Even their very different mothers—the Type-A Beth Ann and the free...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness
by
Megan Eaves-Egenes
Grand Central Publishing, 03/31/2026
People, plants and animals all depend on the natural night—both its darkness and its starlight—for so much, from regulating our sleep ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Nightmare of the Embryos
by
Mariella Mehr
New Directions Publishing, 03/31/2026
Nightmare of the Embryos is a stunning collection of short fictional works by the Swiss writer Mariella Mehr (1947–2022), one of the most ...
more
Nothing Tastes as Good: A Novel
by
Luke Dumas
Atria Books, 03/31/2026
Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries ...
more
Only a Little While Here: A Novel
by
María Ospina
Scribner, 03/31/2026
In
Only a Little While Here, award-winning author María Ospina evokes the gratification to be found through close, humble observation of nature. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Phases: A Memoir
by
Brandy
Hanover Square Press, 03/31/2026
From the moment she first sang at church in McComb, Mississippi, Brandy knew her voice was special. At fourteen she landed her first record deal. At ...
more
Son of Nobody: A Novel
by
Yann Martel
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/31/2026
The Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd's son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight with the ...
more
The Adjunct
by
Maria Adelmann
Scribner, 03/31/2026
Meet Sam, an adjunct professor at a public university in Baltimore who takes a last-minute gig at the private liberal arts college down the road. ...
more
The Celestial Seas
by
T. A. Chan
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 03/31/2026
Ishara Ming is the sole survivor of a spacefaring whaler destroyed by the Ballena, a legendary sentient spacecraft that haunts the darkness between ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Keeper: A Novel
by
Tana French
Viking, 03/31/2026
On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Arknakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the...
more
Historical Fiction
The News from Dublin: Stories
by
Colm Toibin
Scribner, 03/31/2026
Celebrated as "his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" (
Los Angeles Times), Colm Tóibín is a master ...
more
The Quarter Queen: A Novel
by
Kayla Hardy
Ballantine Books, 03/31/2026
In 1843 New Orleans, the reigning Voodoo queen is Marie Laveau, feared by her enemies and followers alike. Her daughter, Marie "Ree" Laveau the Second...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me: Maggie the Undying #1
by
Ilona Andrews
Tor Books, 03/31/2026
When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink
by
Kory Stamper
Knopf, 03/31/2026
begonia (n.): 3 -s : a deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral (see coral 3b), bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Upward Bound: A Novel
by
Woody Brown
Hogarth Books, 03/31/2026
Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is, for many of...
more
Where No Shadow Stays
by
Sara Hashem
Holiday House, 03/31/2026
Seventeen-year-old Mina is always focused on what comes next: exams, school dances, opportunities for a picnic by the lake. Filling up the future ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
What Happened Next: A Novel
by
Edwin Hill
Thomas & Mercer, 04/01/2026
What do I remember about the murder on the lake?
Charlie Kilgore was too young to remember anything, really, about how events on the lake unfolded...
more
Thrillers
A Killer in the Family: A Novel
by
Amin Ahmad
Henry Holt and Company, 04/07/2026
Ali Azeem, a naive Muslim bachelor from Mumbai, thinks he has hit the jackpot when he agrees to an arranged marriage with Maryam Khan, daughter of ...
more
Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry
by
Ada Limón
Scribner, 04/07/2026
Ada Limón—celebrated poet laureate and 2023 MacArthur fellow—takes us on an inspiring journey into a world where poetry is both a ...
more
Biography/Memoir
American Fantasy: A Novel
by
Emma Straub
Riverhead Books, 04/07/2026
When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous, nineties-era boy band and three...
more
Body Double: A Novel
by
Hanna Johansson
Catapult, 04/07/2026
Naomi and Laura meet by chance at a department store café when Naomi mistakenly takes Laura's coat. A strange magnetism is sparked during this ...
more
Diseases Without Borders: Plagues, Pandemics, and Beyond
by
Marc Zimmer
Twenty-First Century Books, 04/07/2026
But where they spread, how they spread, and how fast they move have all changed. As humans became more mobile, started trading goods and information ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Found Time
by
Caroline Goldstein
831 Stories, 04/07/2026
In 1993, Lili and Reid lock eyes after a Jeff Buckley show at Sin-é in New York's East Village. Their connection is immediate and intense—...
more
Romance
Girl Reflected in Knife
by
Anica Mrose Rissi
Dutton for Young Readers, 04/07/2026
Her mother has struggled with addiction for all of Destiny's life, moving them from town to town, bad boyfriend to bad boyfriend—including a ...
more
Guilt: A Mystery
by
Keigo Higashino
Minotaur Books, 04/07/2026
Homicide Detective Godai of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is assigned to investigate the death of a lawyer, Kensuke Shiraishi, whose body ...
more
Mysteries
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
by
Molly Crabapple
One World, 04/07/2026
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created "memory paintings" with the hope of resurrecting the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Hexes of the Deadwood Forest: A Novel
by
Agnieszka Szpila
Pantheon Books, 04/07/2026
Anna Frenza hates the tyrannical tree huggers and the idiotic eco-warriors—after all, she's the CEO of Poland's biggest oil company. But then ...
more
Honey in the Wound: A Novel
by
Jiyoung Han
Avid Reader Press, 04/07/2026
A sister disappears and returns as a tiger. A mother's voice compels the truth from any tongue. A granddaughter divines secrets in others' dreams. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
In Trees: An Exploration
by
Robert Moor
Simon & Schuster, 04/07/2026
To truly grasp the wisdom of a tree, you need to begin thinking like one…
One day, on a whim, Robert Moor set out to climb a tree near his ...
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Inheritance
by
Jane Park
Pegasus Books, 04/07/2026
Anne Kim is a lawyer in New York, her success built on forgetting the past. When her father dies, she returns to Edmonton for the funeral and is ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Labor: One Woman's Work
by
Dr. Mary Fariba Afsari
Avid Reader Press, 04/07/2026
In
Labor: One Woman's Work, Dr. Mary Afsari takes us on a deeply personal and transformative journey through her life as an ob-gyn. Set against the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Like This, But Funnier: A Novel
by
Hallie Cantor
Simon & Schuster, 04/07/2026
TV writer Caroline Neumann is thirty-four and mired in professional envy and self-hatred. Even Harry, her usually supportive therapist husband, thinks...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
by
Patrick Radden Keefe
Doubleday, 04/07/2026
In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain's spy agency, captured video of a young man ...
more
Love by the Book: A Novel
by
Jessica George
St. Martin's Press, 04/07/2026
Remy is lucky. Her debut novel, based on her three best friends, became an instant bestseller when it was released, and her agent and publisher are ...
more
My Dear You: Stories
by
Rachel Khong
Knopf, 04/07/2026
The characters in
My Dear You find themselves facing extraordinary choices in scenarios that range from the everyday to the absurd: The U.S. ...
more
Never After
by
Alexis Hall
Montlake, 04/07/2026
On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael "Micha" Dashwood uses ...
more
Piper at the Gates of Dusk: The New World #1
by
Patrick Ness
Candlewick Press, 04/07/2026
It's been twenty years since the monstrous war that almost tore New World apart, and there's a new generation on the planet. Todd and Viola's sons Ben...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Superstars
by
Ann Scott
Astra House, 04/07/2026
Louise is a woman in her early thirties with a record contract, colorful roommates, and a passionate, volatile relationship with the lesbian community...
more
Tailbone: A Novel
by
Che Yeun
Bloomsbury Publishing, 04/07/2026
Set in Seoul in 2008, Tailbone follows the story of an unnamed teenage girl who, after years of struggling with her alcoholic father's abuse, and what...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Book Witch: A Novel
by
Meg Shaffer
Ballantine Books, 04/07/2026
Rainy March is a proud third-generation book witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea
by
Jeffrey Marlow
Random House, 04/07/2026
The deep sea is our planet's last frontier. For most of human history, it was a vast, unknown realm that invoked awe and terror. And despite how much ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Ending Writes Itself: A Novel
by
Evelyn Clarke
Harper, 04/07/2026
Arthur Fletch, one of the world's bestselling novelists, is a reclusive genius known for his iconic protagonists and fiendish twists. When six ...
more
The Greek House
by
Dinah Jefferies
HarperCollins Publishers, 04/07/2026
Corfu, 1930
The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories flood back: the scent of jasmine, the green shutters of her family's home &#...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances: A Novel
by
Glenn Dixon
Atria Books, 04/07/2026
In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient Roomba listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by
To Kill a...more
The Last Renter: Archer Island #2
by
Caleb Mason
BookBaby, 04/07/2026
In
The Last Renter: An Archer Island Thriller, a dangerous mental patient escapes to Archer Island seeking revenge against her abusive stepfather and ...
more
Thrillers
The Midnight Show: A Novel
by
Lee Kelly
Crown, 04/07/2026
In the 1980s, women were not supposed to be funny. But when a group of college improv comedians gets the chance to join a new late-night show, it's ...
more
The Monk: DS George Cross Mysteries #5
by
Tim Sullivan
Atlantic Crime, 04/07/2026
DS George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now that she is back in his life, he suddenly has answers—but ...
more
The Oyster Diaries
by
Nancy Lemann
NYRB Classics, 04/07/2026
Delery Anhalt—middle-aged and prone, like Don Quixote, to "embroidering everything into vast ideals" but incapable (like Desdemona?) of ...
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Literary Fiction
The Paris Match
by
Kate Clayborn
Berkley Books, 04/07/2026
Physician Layla Bailey has spent over a year telling herself she's moved on from a painful but amicable divorce from her college sweetheart. Staying ...
more
The Subtle Art of Folding Space
by
John Chu
Tor Books, 04/07/2026
Ellie's universe, and this one, is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Chinese ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Witch: A Novel
by
Marie NDiaye
Vintage, 04/07/2026
Lucie comes from a long line of witches, with powers passed down from mother to daughter. Many of them have hidden or repressed their gifts to appease...
more
To Steal a Throne
by
Gabi Burton
Bloomsbury YA, 04/07/2026
Her magic feeds on lies.
His magic could destroy her.
Mira Kyler runs the court of Virdei from the shadows. Ever since she helped her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found
by
Andrew Graham-Dixon
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/07/2026
One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of ...
more
Visitations: Poems
by
Julia Alvarez
Knopf, 04/07/2026
As I approach the closing stanzas of a long life practicing my craft, I feel the need to collect the many loose poems I've been writing into a book ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
When It's Your Turn for Midnight
by
Blessing Musariri
Carolrhoda Books, 04/07/2026
Chianti goes to stay with her maternal grandmother, Ambuya, an eccentric and formidable ex-freedom fighter in Zimbabwe's civil war.
Ambuya's ...
more
Wolvers
by
Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/07/2026
Broke, dispossessed, and angry at the government after losing his family's New Mexico ranch, Trace Temple is looking for revenge. He's living out of ...
more
Yesteryear: A Novel
by
Caro Claire Burke
Knopf, 04/07/2026
My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
A Private Man
by
Stephanie Sy-Quia
Grove Press, 04/14/2026
It's the 1960s, and David is handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy. An exemplary Catholic priest, devotion to God is all he's ever known, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Splintering
by
Dur e Aziz Amna
Dzanc Books, 04/14/2026
In a village in rural Pakistan, Tara is watching and waiting. The smell of dung and dust hangs over her world. She is desperate to leave her petty ...
more
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
by
Melvin Patrick Ely
Henry Holt and Company, 04/14/2026
A white man hosts a wedding party for his Black servant and finds himself charged with a criminal offense; an overseer ends up dead after getting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
City of the Muse: A Novel
by
Kate Hilton
Simon & Schuster, 04/14/2026
An ill-fated dig. An ancient city believed to be cursed. And a century-old mystery at the heart of it all.
Egypt, 1903: When renowned papyrologist ...
more
Mysteries
Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead: A Novel
by
Mai Nguyen
Atria Books, 04/14/2026
All Cleo Dang has ever wanted is to be a mother. The day she discovers she's pregnant is the happiest of her life, especially when she learns that her...
more
Dear Monica Lewinsky: A Novel
by
Julia Langbein
Doubleday, 04/14/2026
Forty-five-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escape the shadow of something she did several decades ago. On a study abroad program to France in the summer ...
more
Deathly Fates
by
Tesia Tsai
Wednesday Books, 04/14/2026
As a priestess paid to guide the deceased home, Kang Siying has never feared death. However, when her beloved father collapses, Siying realizes that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Famesick: A Memoir
by
Lena Dunham
Random House, 04/14/2026
For the last decade, as she's spent countless hours in doctor's waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, being the owner and ...
more
Forgive-Me-Not
by
Mari Costa
First Second, 04/14/2026
Aisling is many things to many people: princess, heir to the throne, teenage daughter of two loving parents… She's also about to learn a lot ...
more
Go Gentle
by
Maria Semple
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/14/2026
Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcée, she lives a contented life on New York City's Upper West Side. Having ...
more
Go-Between Girl: My Indentured Roots as Reclaimed Present
by
Andrea Gunraj
McClelland & Stewart, 04/14/2026
Andrea Gunraj delves into the under-told legacy of indentured labour and its lasting impacts on descendants across diasporas, from the Caribbean and ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Invasive Species: A Novel
by
Ellery Adams
Hanover Square Press, 04/14/2026
Something's not right in Cold Harbor—more so than usual. While this sleepy small town has seen its fair share of monsters in cheating husbands ...
more
Jan Morris: A Life
by
Sara Wheeler
Harper, 04/14/2026
When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to the young Queen Elizabeth in London, she became the...
more
Japanese Gothic: A Novel
by
Kylie Lee Baker
Hanover Square Press, 04/14/2026
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn't remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
by
Jonathan Cheng
Knopf, 04/14/2026
For nearly eight decades, North Korea has marched defiantly to its own beat, shaking off its Soviet and Chinese sponsors to emerge as the world's most...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Lady No
by
Kim Hyesoon
Ecco, 04/14/2026
In March 2014, Kim Hyesoon, the grand dame of contemporary Korean poetry, began to post anonymously on the online blog of Munhakdongne, a major South ...
more
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Last One Out: A Novel
by
Jane Harper
Pine & Cedar, 04/14/2026
Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by ...
more
Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System
by
Shaun Ossei-Owusu
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/14/2026
The law promises justice. Too often, it delivers inequality. This contradiction raises a basic question: Why does a legal system that claims to stand ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Lázár: A Novel
by
Nelio Biedermann
Summit Books, 04/14/2026
At the turn of the 20th century, the Lázárs welcome their newest member in their rural summer estate, surrounded by a menacingly dark, ...
more
Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World
by
Kaitlyn Teer
Harper, 04/14/2026
How do you raise children in a world rapidly being reshaped by climate change? How do our narratives about climate change and care help us or hinder ...
more
Midnight, at the War: A Novel
by
Devi S. Laskar
Mariner Books, 04/14/2026
Foreign correspondent Rita Das has left New York for the war-torn Middle East, a reassignment she asks for after she learns she is pregnant and is ...
more
Morsel
by
Carter Keane
Tor Nightfire, 04/14/2026
Lou did what the children of parents with backbreaking, poorly paying jobs are supposed to do: pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Murder Mindfully
by
Karsten Dusse
Soho Crime, 04/14/2026
Criminal defense lawyer Björn Diemel has been given an ultimatum: repair his work-life balance, or his wife will leave him—and take their ...
more
Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir
by
Leise Hook
Henry Holt and Company, 04/14/2026
Who are you? What are you? And how does it feel to be you? Leise Hook was asked these intrusive questions so many times growing up that they haunted ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
On the Calculation of Volume: Book IV
by
Solvej Balle
New Directions Publishing, 04/14/2026
We're a little more than halfway through Balle's hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Porcupines: A Novel
by
Fran Fabriczki
Summit Books, 04/14/2026
Sonia is a Hungarian immigrant who is raising her daughter, Mila—her beloved Milosh—on her own in sunny Los Angeles. Her days are a blur ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Self-Help from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living
by
Peter Jones
Doubleday, 04/14/2026
Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at a university in Siberia when his third icy winter there plunged him into a dark place. Luckily, he knew ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Soundtrack: A Novel
by
Jason Reynolds
Crown Books for Young Readers, 04/14/2026
Stuy Grey plays the drums, just like his mom, a founding member of the all-black punk band the Bed-Stuy Magic Dusters. He teaches himself by watching ...
more
Stay for a Spell
by
Amy Coombe
Ace Books, 04/14/2026
Princess Tanadelle of the Widdenmar is disillusioned with life as a princess. She longs for real conversation, the chance to build a life of her own ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming
by
Angela Pelster
Milkweed Editions, 04/14/2026
Crisis is an agent of evolution, and Angela Pelster knows what it means to evolve. As a child, she burned grass to keep weeds at bay and watched ...
more
The Insomniacs
by
Allison Winn Scotch
Berkley Books, 04/14/2026
n the city that never sleeps, it's not always easy to share what's on your mind with the people who know you best. Huddled in an all-night diner over ...
more
The Killing Spell
by
Shay Kauwe
Saga Press, 04/14/2026
Kea Petrova is dealing with more than her fair share of trouble.
At just twenty-five years old, she's the youngest of five Hawaiian clan leaders ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Left and the Lucky: A Novel
by
Willy Vlautin
Harper, 04/14/2026
Eddie Wilkens is a workaholic house painter in his early forties. His wife has left him to her regret, and his main employee, Houston, is a loafer and...
more
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton: A Novel
by
Jennifer N. Brown
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/14/2026
Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery―she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Model Patient
by
Lucy Ashe
Union Square & Co., 04/14/2026
Evelyn Westbrook has given up her career as a model and wants to find fulfilment in married life. But when her husband suggests they start trying for ...
more
The Monuments of Paris: A Novel
by
Violaine Huisman
Penguin Press, 04/14/2026
Violaine Huisman grew up in Paris with her beautiful, bipolar mother —the subject of Huisman's acclaimed debut novel
The Book of Mother —...
more
Literary Fiction
The Take
by
Kelly Yang
Berkley Books, 04/14/2026
Would you sell your youth for $3 million?
Maggie Wang, a broke young Asian American writer, needs a lifeline. Ingrid Parker, a veteran white ...
more
These Familiar Walls
by
C. J. Dotson
St. Martin's Press, 04/14/2026
In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of her family, particularly her younger sister, when she befriends the ...
more
Thrillers
They Made Us Blood and Fury
by
Cheryl S. Ntumy
Rosarium Publishing, 04/14/2026
Anyi is the gem of the Countless Clans. Their Queens make lifeblood, a magical substance used for everything from medicine to weapons. Once, Anyi had ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Too Close to Home: A Novel
by
Seraphina Nova Glass
Prospect Park Books, 04/14/2026
Those lucky enough to live in the elite lakefront community of Cloverhill Lakes are drawn to it for its safety and top-notch school district. The moms...
more
Wife Shaped Bodies: A Novel
by
Laura Cranehill
Saga Press, 04/14/2026
Forbidden from leaving her house from girlhood until marriage, Nicole has only her mother's lessons and what she can see from her bedroom window to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A History of Heartache
by
Patrick Strickland
Melville House, 04/21/2026
Loosely inspired by the 1996 heroin epidemic in the grittier suburbs of Dallas, this gripping collection of short stories — many published ...
more
Short Stories
A Room in Bombay: A Memoir
by
Manil Suri
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/21/2026
Indian American author Manil Suri grew up in a large, crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai) that his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three ...
more
Afternoon Hours of a Hermit
by
Patrick Cottrell
Ecco, 04/21/2026
And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?...
I would say I was Dan Moran, a Korean adoptee, single, approaching ...more
Literary Fiction
Aphrodite in Pieces
by
Lauren J. A. Bear
Ace Books, 04/21/2026
Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite surprises an itinerant sculptor with a shocking request:
Hear my story, see me for who I truly am, ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Aside from My Heart, All is Well
by
Héctor Abad
Archipelago Books, 04/21/2026
Luis Cordóba, also known as Gordo, leads an unconventional life. His vocation as a priest has not stopped him from becoming a film critic, ...
more
George Orwell: Life and Legacy
by
Robert Colls
Oxford University Press, 04/21/2026
George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a ...
more
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
by
Daniel Hahn
Knopf, 04/21/2026
Shakespeare may have breathed the air of sixteenth-century England, but today, all the world is his stage. Every year, millions of people, from Bogot&...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Israel: What Went Wrong?
by
Omer Bartov
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/21/2026
The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War....
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Last Night in Brooklyn: A Novel
by
Xochitl Gonzalez
Flatiron Books, 04/21/2026
Spring, 2007
At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She's in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her ...
more
Livonia Chow Mein: A Novel
by
Abigail Savitch-Lew
Simon & Schuster, 04/21/2026
In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Mad Mabel: A Novel
by
Sally Hepworth
St. Martin's Press, 04/21/2026
Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea―or a cutting ...
more
Morbid Curiosities
by
S. Hati
Feiwel & Friends, 04/21/2026
When the Institute's invitation arrived at my doorstep, it felt like it had been inked in my blood, sweat, and tears.
Aarya's life plan has been ...
more
Mrs. Shim Is a Killer: A Novel
by
Kang Jiyoung
Harper, 04/21/2026
Mrs. Shim needs money. She's lost her husband and her job, and she's got three mouths to feed at her kitchen table. If she doesn't find work soon, she...
more
No Way Home: A Novel
by
T. C. Boyle
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 04/21/2026
No Way Home tells the haunting story of Terrence Tully, an LA medical resident who is abruptly informed that his mother has died. Arriving at her home...
more
Odessa: A Novel
by
Gabrielle Sher
Little Brown & Company, 04/21/2026
Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother's anxiety, her father's rules, and the path that's been ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Permanence: A Novel
by
Sophie Mackintosh
Avid Reader Press, 04/21/2026
Clara and Francis are in love, but nobody knows it. For months they have been stealing away from their respective lives, leaving no trace of their ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
by
Carissa Véliz
Doubleday, 04/21/2026
Today's computer scientists play the same role as the oracles of the ancient world and the astrologers of the Middle Ages. Modern predictions not only...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Rabbit Test and Other Stories
by
Samantha Mills
Tachyon Publications, 04/21/2026
A time-traveling fisherwoman keeps landing on the right shore, but at the wrong time. A pair of witches fight over the gate between life and death. A ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Small Town Girls: a writer's memoir
by
Jayne Anne Phillips
Knopf, 04/21/2026
Jayne Anne Phillips grew up in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. The distinctly American landscape of Appalachia—dense with forests ...
more
Somewhere Soft to Land: A Novel
by
Kai Alonté
Ballantine Books, 04/21/2026
Dzifa has always felt a bit off. Maybe it's the family baggage, or maybe it's just how she's wired; she craves sanctuary, a soft place to land, but ...
more
The Bush Tea Murder: (A Caribbean Island Mystery)
by
Ashley-Ruth Bernier
Crooked Lane Books, 04/21/2026
Food journalist Naomi Sinclair doesn't expect a side of murder with her passion fruit juice. But when her return to Saint Thomas heralds a series of ...
more
Mysteries
The Caretaker: A Novel
by
Marcus Kliewer
Atria Books, 04/21/2026
Exciting Opportunity:
Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY.
Macy Mullins can't say why...
more
Thrillers
The Dead Ringer: A Novel
by
Dane Bahr
Counterpoint Press, 04/21/2026
Montana, 1935. Bludgeoned and buried alive by his bank-robbing partner and half brother, Benjamin Kilt should have been a corpse. But now very much on...
more
The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America
by
David Levithan, Gabriel Duckels
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 04/21/2026
The AIDS crisis in America is complex and composed of countless individual stories of grief, love, and advocacy. Its history shows the power of youth ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Language of Liars
by
S. L. Huang
Tordotcom, 04/21/2026
In his training as a spy, Ro was warned:
you will always be living a lie.
Jumping into a Star Eater's mind in the first place requires a moment ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Memory Museum: Stories
by
M Lin
Graywolf Press, 04/21/2026
These frank, tender, and playful stories offer profound insight into the ambivalence of migration, the perverse ways race and class can operate, and ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Photonic Effect
by
Mike Chen
Saga Press, 04/21/2026
The starship
Horizon's crew spent ten years trapped across the expanse of space. Now they're finally home—only it's not the home they knew. The ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Plunge: A Novel
by
Lila Raicek
MIRA, 04/21/2026
Following the death of her disgraced fiancé, Liv returns to New York City where she finds shelter in the apartment of a former mentor. Lonely and...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Rolling Stones: The Biography
by
Bob Spitz
Penguin Books, 04/21/2026
All great music is a threat.
What left is there to say about The Rolling Stones? A hell of a lot, it turns out.
Bob Spitz has brought his ...
more
The Rough Side of the Mountain: A Memoir
by
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Mariner Books, 04/21/2026
Long before Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to prominence in politics, she was a daddy's girl from the Westside of Atlanta—the baby of her family who ...
more
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
by
Craig Fehrman
Avid Reader Press, 04/21/2026
Celebrated young historian Craig Fehrman, whose first book,
Author in Chief, was hailed by Thomas Mallon in
The Wall Street Journal as "one of the ...
more
Thistlemarsh
by
Moorea Corrigan
Berkley Books, 04/21/2026
In the wake of The Great War, the world is a decidedly unmagical place for Mouse Dunne. She once dreamed of becoming a Faerie anthropologist, but with...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
To the End of Reckoning
by
Joseph Moldover
Mysterious Press, 04/21/2026
Twenty-three-year-old Lukas Moore has returned to his hometown of Faith, New York, and left his burgeoning acting career behind to care for his father...
more
Thrillers
Until We Meet Again
by
Lily Kim Qian
First Second, 04/21/2026
Lily isn't sure where home is anymore. Her family is constantly on the move, resettling in different towns across Canada and, eventually, in Shanghai,...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust
by
Michael Hall
Bloomsbury Caravel, 04/28/2026
National Trust houses and landscapes might seem to embody conventional family values, but for generations some very different stories were hidden away...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Violent Masterpiece: A Novel
by
Jordan Harper
Mulholland, 04/28/2026
Los Angeles, right now. America with its back up against the wall. This Frankenstein's monster of crimes and lurid dreams sewn together into something...
more
All Flesh: A Novel
by
Ananda Devi
FSG Originals, 04/28/2026
Bullied at school with near-hellish doggedness by cold-hearted classmates and fattened at home with increasingly extravagant feasts by an ...
more
Ambrosia Lee Drops the Mic
by
Patricia Park
Crown Books for Young Readers, 04/28/2026
They say Hollywood is like high school, and has-been child actor Ambrosia Lee feels like she's at the bottom of the social ladder. Her acting career ...
more
Boring Asian Female
by
Canwen Xu
Berkley Books, 04/28/2026
Elizabeth Zhang is well aware of her place in the world. She's in the tenth percentile for likability, the seventieth percentile for attractiveness, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Dark Is When the Devil Comes: A Novel
by
Daisy Pearce
Minotaur Books, 04/28/2026
The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn't come out.
Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English ...
more
Thrillers
Dreamt I Found You: A Novel
by
Jimin Han
Little Brown & Company, 04/28/2026
When Dahee Shin was nine years old, she made a promise to protect her favorite cousin, Channing, who has always been like a sister to her. Now, at ...
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Literary Fiction
Fat Swim: Fiction
by
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Hogarth Books, 04/28/2026
With a brash and stylish voice that implicates and confronts the reader, Emma Copley Eisenberg wades into the contradictions, joys, and violence of a ...
more
Short Stories
From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdo?an
by
Suzy Hansen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/28/2026
Karagumruk, an Istanbul neighborhood once dominated by Ottoman-era homes, is now known for petty thieves, cheap apartment blocks, and a massive influx...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ghost Town: A Novel
by
Tom Perrotta
Scribner, 04/28/2026
Jimmy Perrini lives in 1970s suburban New Jersey, a few miles from Manhattan, but a world apart. At the end of eighth grade, after tragedy strikes, ...
more
How to Fake It in Society
by
KJ Charles
Bramble, 04/28/2026
It is 1821 and Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte is making a splash in London Society. The son of Jeanne de Valois de La Motte, infamous for ...
more
I Live You For Ever: Dementia in a Loving Marriage
by
Meredith Rutter Marple
Atmosphere Press, 04/28/2026
What began as small slips—forgotten directions, mental-math errors—unfolded into a relentless progression of symptoms associated with ...
more
Biography/Memoir
If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light
by
Kim Choyeop
Saga Press, 04/28/2026
In
If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light, Korean science fiction superstar Kim Cho-yeop leads us to places we never thought we'd reach, imagining ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Liar's Dice: A Novel
by
Juliet Faithfull
Random House, 04/28/2026
Dolores and Mita grow up in rural Brazil, identical and inseparable. But Mita develops a mysterious illness that challenges the family. One day, ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block
by
Jesse Q Sutanto
Berkley Books, 04/28/2026
Retirement should mean long-awaited trips to the sapphire waters of Santorini or careening down a sand dune in Dubai. For sixty-three-year-old Mebel, ...
more
Murders and Acquisitions
by
Thomas Dunne
Blackstone Publishing, 04/28/2026
Entitlement
Greed
Rivalry
Revenge
It's just another day for the wealthy, privileged Maybachs—at least the few who still pay ...
more
Questions 27 & 28
by
Karen Tei Yamashita
Graywolf Press, 04/28/2026
To be considered for release, they were required to answer the so-called loyalty questionnaire. Question 27 asked the inmates―who had been ...
more
Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay
by
Mary Lisa Gavenas
Viking, 04/28/2026
Growing up in Depression-era Texas, Mary Kathlyn Wagner is a dutiful daughter and diligent student with ambition aplenty and no place to use it. ...
more
The Original: A Novel
by
Priya Parmar
Ballantine Books, 04/28/2026
Katharine Hepburn won more Oscars than any actor in history—and yet her most memorable role is the one she carved for herself.
When young ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Radiant Dark: A Novel
by
Alexandra Oliva
SJP Lit, 04/28/2026
It's March 1980, and Carol Girard and her husband are living an ordinary life in a small town in the Adirondacks. They have just had their first child...
more
This Is Not About Running: A Memoir
by
Mary Cain
Mariner Books, 04/28/2026
Few women have ever run 800 meters in under two minutes. Even fewer people have taken on running's abusive training culture and won. Mary Cain has ...
more
To See Beyond
by
Anna Badkhen
Bellevue Literary Press, 04/28/2026
Our hyper-informed digital era of climate catastrophe, historically unmatched migration, and genocide confronts us with a terrible conundrum: the pain...
more
We Burned So Bright
by
TJ Klune
Tor Books, 04/28/2026
The road stretched out before them. No other cars, just the headlights on the blacktop. Above, the cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky….
...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine
by
Francesca Albanese
Other Press, 04/28/2026
Francesca Albanese is the most lucid voice against Israel's apartheid policies in Gaza and the West Bank, a voice that has been heard around the world...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Won't Be Long Now
by
Elizabeth Hardinger
A John Scognamiglio Book, 04/28/2026
Billie Enholm has never known quite how to define what makes her different from her schoolmates and her cousins, but there's no denying that she is. ...
more
Historical Fiction
Shelter Island: A January Hoolihan and Crisscross Adventure
by
Jill Wisoff
Fantasy Creature Books, 05/04/2026
But gal pal Crisscross, a little kid from the nabe obsessed with hounds and pirates, shadows January. And in her wake? A heap of trouble!
January ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Little Bit Bad: A Novel
by
Cassandra Neyenesch
Summit Books, 05/05/2026
Perdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her neighbor's anarcho-Marxist roofer, is ...
more
A Long and Speaking Silence: The Singing Hills Cycle #7
by
Nghi Vo
Tordotcom, 05/05/2026
Every story begins somewhere.
On the banks of the Ya-lé River, the town of Luntien gathers to celebrate the start of the rainy season, but the...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Murder in Hollywood
by
Michael Crichton
Blackstone Publishing, 05/05/2026
In the glitz and decadence of 1970s Hollywood, an era when sex and drugs are readily available on any movie set, the writer of the next Western ...
more
Abundance: A Novel
by
Hafeez Lakhani
Counterpoint Press, 05/05/2026
In suburban Miami, sixty-year-old Sakeena—co-owner of a Dunkin' franchise along with her husband, Ramzan—has nine months to live unless ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Accumulation
by
Aimee Pokwatka
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/05/2026
When documentary filmmaker turned stay-at-home mom Tennessee Cherish moves into the the dream house her husband bought for her, a brighter future ...
more
Thrillers
After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World
by
Ian Shapiro
Basic Books, 05/05/2026
The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous political optimism: communism was receding and democracy was on the march in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda
by
Ru Marshall
OR Books, 05/05/2026
Twenty years in the making,
American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda unravels the story of the secretive faux-anthropologist who ...
more
As I Dream of You
by
Jennifer Lee
First Second, 05/05/2026
Falling in love is supposed to hurt. That's what Franny and Sam, two cynical teenagers raised on tales of heartbreak and loss, have come to understand...
more
At Sea: A Novel
by
Y. M. Abdel-Magied
Pegasus Books, 05/05/2026
When Zainab, an expert driller, is tasked with overseeing a high-stakes oil rig operation, she leaves behind her pregnant sister to embark on the most...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Backtalker: An American Memoir
by
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Simon & Schuster, 05/05/2026
It is not very often that someone comes along and permanently reshapes the way Americans think about two of the most important issues of the day. In ...
more
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
by
Adrian Matejka
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/05/2026
Gathering hits from six extraordinary collections,
Be Easy showcases his singular sonics and narrative vision in fresh, dynamic poems that lyrically ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
But Won't I Miss Me: A Novel
by
Tiffany Tsao
HarperVia, 05/05/2026
In a world where drastic measures have averted the global environmental crisis, humans too are now subject to great transformation.
Vivi should be...
more
Caller Unknown: A Novel
by
Gillian McAllister
William Morrow, 05/05/2026
There is nothing that Simone won't do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they ...
more
Change of Plans
by
Sarah Dessen
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 05/05/2026
Finley has always felt most comfortable in someone else's shadow. Fortunately, she's got Colin, her magnetic boyfriend, who sweeps her along for ...
more
Dissection of a Murder: A Novel
by
Jo Murray
Dutton, 05/05/2026
When Leila Reynolds is handed her first murder case, she's shocked by the victim: a well-known, well-respected judge, whose death sent shockwaves ...
more
Enormous Wings: A Novel
by
Laurie Frankel
Henry Holt and Company, 05/05/2026
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn't choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas&#...
more
Five: A Novel
by
Ilona Bannister
Crown, 05/05/2026
Have you ever tried to pass the time by imagining the lives of the strangers standing next to you? Ilona Bannister's
Five introduces readers to five ...
more
Five Weeks in the Country: A Novel
by
Francine Prose
Harper, 05/05/2026
In the summer of 1857, when British newspapers warned of an approaching comet about to destroy the earth, an unusual-looking stranger arrived at ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Frida Slattery As Herself: A Novel
by
Ana Kinsella
Ecco, 05/05/2026
You could probably run cities on the energy generated between directors like him and actresses like her.
When Frida Slattery and John Reddan meet ...
more
Literary Fiction
Ghost Stories: A Memoir
by
Siri Hustvedt
Simon & Schuster, 05/05/2026
Ghost Stories is an intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written after the death of Siri Hustvedt's husband, Paul Auster. The book...
more
GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything
by
Freya India
Henry Holt and Company, 05/05/2026
GIRLS® is what girls have become in the modern world. We are ornaments on display, filtered and Facetuned. We are objects, shopped for on dating ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Good Joy, Bad Joy: A Novel
by
Mikki Brammer
St. Martin's Press, 05/05/2026
Break the rules. Find your joy.
For over eighty years, Joy Bridport has played by the rules: she's been a devoted wife and mother, contributing to ...
more
Good News: A Novel
by
Alexa Yasemin Brahme
Algonquin Books, 05/05/2026
Maggie is on the brink. Her MFA thesis—a vast canvas of twenty women suspended between life and death—is met with polite confusion, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hear Ye Mortals
by
Yamile Saied Méndez
Levine Querido, 05/05/2026
In 1976 Rosario, Argentina, brothers Daniel and Adrián Aguirre share a passion for music and a bond as best friends. However, under the ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Holloway
by
Elana K. Arnold
Clarion, 05/05/2026
It is the late summer of 2021, and a girl named Nora is on the Paris Metro.
Nora, whose mother loved her, even though Nora was broken.
Nora, who...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Homebound: A Novel
by
Portia Elan
Scribner, 05/05/2026
It's 1983 and Becks can't wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. She's nineteen, blasting her Walkman, and hiding from the fact that her beloved ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Honey: A Novel
by
Imani Thompson
Random House, 05/05/2026
Yrsa is in a funk. She's bored of her PhD program, bored of her research on Afropessimism, bored of the entitled undergrads she has to cater to. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
by
David Epstein
Riverhead Books, 05/05/2026
We live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and prizes freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding ...
more
John of John: A Novel
by
Douglas Stuart
Grove Press, 05/05/2026
Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer ...
more
Liberty Island: A Novel
by
Virginia Hume
St. Martin's Press, 05/05/2026
1900: 28-year-old Anna Bradley spends summer days supervising three little girls, including her niece, Julia Demarest, on an island off the coast of ...
more
Historical Fiction
List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories
by
Dylan Landis
Soho Press, 05/05/2026
In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into the world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York City, a naïve caretaker struggles ...
more
Literary Fiction
Look What You Made Me Do: A Novel
by
John Lanchester
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/05/2026
"
Every successful marriage has its own private language." So it is for baby boomer Kate and her beloved architect husband Jack, thirty years into ...
more
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World – A History of Civilization Through Trial and Error, Ice Age to Bronze Age
by
Patrick Wyman
Harper, 05/05/2026
There's a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting and gathering to farming, wandering bands to villages and cities, clans and chieftains ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mother Tongue: A Memoir
by
Sara Novic
Random House, 05/05/2026
Sara Nović's early years were steeped in music, Bible study, and a strong desire to fit in. But when she failed her school's mandated hearing ...
more
My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past
by
Tracy Clark-Flory
Gallery Books, 05/05/2026
Tracy Clark-Flory had a sister out there, somewhere. She knew that her mom, Deb, was sent to a home for unwed mothers as a pregnant teenager in the ...
more
Now Then: A Novel
by
Morgan Radford
Amistad, 05/05/2026
Now — 1991 Cambridge, MA. Liliana Soto Walker is an 18-year-old freshman who arrives at Harvard from the humble Appalachian home of her Cuban ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Offseason: A Novel
by
Avigayl Sharp
Astra House, 05/05/2026
In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's
Bleak House to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
One Leg on Earth: A Novel
by
'Pemi Aguda
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/05/2026
Something is haunting the pregnant women of Lagos. Across the city, they are walking into water ... and drowning.
Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Platform Decay: The Murderbot Diaries #8
by
Martha Wells
Tor Books, 05/05/2026
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.
Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Seek Immediate Shelter: A Novel
by
Vincent Yu
Flatiron Books, 05/05/2026
On an otherwise unremarkable morning, the residents of a small town in Massachusetts all receive the same alert:
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. ...more
Shards of Silence
by
Brian Lee Young
Heartdrum, 05/05/2026
Even if it hurts to leave behind his friends and family in Navajo, New Mexico—especially his great-grandmother, Mildred—Derrick knows his ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
She Knows All the Names: Throne of Khetara #2
by
Michelle Jabès Corpora
Sourcebooks Fire, 05/05/2026
Fresh to the throne, the cunning new pharaoh schemes to bring unprecedented power to the Kingdom of Khetara. He commands absolute allegiance, leaving ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Calamity Club: A Novel
by
Kathryn Stockett
Spiegel & Grau, 05/05/2026
Oxford, Mississippi, 1933.
Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now ...
more
The Fallen: The Lost Girls of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence
by
Louise Brangan
Simon & Schuster, 05/05/2026
Everyone familiar with Ireland's history has heard of the Magdalene Laundries, places where "fallen" women were sent for reform, but few understand ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh
by
James Lasdun
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/05/2026
In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at Moselle, their home in South Carolina's Lowcountry. By then, ...
more
The Fine Art of Lying: A Novel
by
Alexandra Andrews
Harper, 05/05/2026
In the beginning, there was art.
It was Clare Bast's love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hill: A Novel
by
Harriet Clark
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/05/2026
Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Contract of Isako
by
Fonda Lee
Orbit, 05/05/2026
Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend must come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow—to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Library of Flowers
by
L.C. Chu
Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/05/2026
For centuries, the Hua women have held sway over the courts of emperors and billionaires with their magical perfumes able to stir hearts and ensure ...
more
The Outer Country: A Novel
by
Davin Malasarn
One World, 05/05/2026
Estranged sisters Manda and Siripon have not seen each other in years when Manda travels to Los Angeles for the birth of Siripon's son, Ben. The women...
more
The Sane One: A Memoir
by
Anna Konkle
Random House, 05/05/2026
The doorbell rings again. The man on the other side is a mirror image of me, same hair, cheeks and nose. I haven't seen him for many years.
"Hi ...more
The Things We Never Say: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Strout
Random House, 05/05/2026
Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual ...
more
The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceausescu's Romania
by
Herta Müller
Pegasus Books, 05/05/2026
From her childhood in Romania, in a village "as small as a thimble on the edge of the world," through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Müller's...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Wish: A Novel
by
Heather Morris
Harper, 05/05/2026
Jesse is fifteen. She loves her friends, her little brother and her parents, even when they're arguing, which feels constant these days. But most of ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Yankee Sphinx: An FDR Novel
by
Mark Frost
Flatiron Books, 05/05/2026
In 1934, Will Hassett is working as a journalist when he gets a call from an old friend who now works at the White House. He arrives expecting to ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Young Will Remember
by
Eve J. Chung
Berkley Books, 05/05/2026
1950. It's the coldest winter in decades, and twenty-eight-year-old Chinese American journalist Ellie Chang is on a military flight to cover a battle ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
by
Deborah Lutz
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/05/2026
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. ...
more
True Crime: A Memoir
by
Patricia Cornwell
Grand Central Publishing, 05/05/2026
Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from...
more
Turn Where: A Geography of Home
by
Chet'la Sebree
The Dial Press, 05/05/2026
Where do I belong in a country that has never loved me? What does it mean to be an American?
Lauded poet and essayist Chet'la Sebree interrogates ...
more
Essays
Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter
by
Stephanie Fairyington
Pantheon Books, 05/05/2026
Ugly is a word with fangs that can kill a woman's self-esteem in one bite. Edicts about how women should look, behave, and think are the brutal forge ...
more
Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known
by
Scott Simon
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/05/2026
Scott Simon's household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals. Whether two-legged or four-, flesh-covered, fur-covered, ...
more
Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump's Mass Deportation Program
by
Julia Ainsley
Harper, 05/05/2026
In
Undue Process, NBC's Senior Homeland Security correspondent Julia Ainsley takes us inside the Trump White House to expose how Stephen Miller, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Witch Hunt: Grace O'Malley Thrillers #1
by
Richard O'Rawe, Bernadette O'Rawe
Severn House, 05/05/2026
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live ...
Detective Superintendent Grace O'Malley of London's Metropolitan Police receives a dubious phone call. A ...
more
Wolf, Moon, Dog: A Novel
by
Thomas Wharton
Pegasus Books, 05/05/2026
In a hard and hungry season thousands of years ago, a young wolf is turfed out of his pack and left to fend for himself among strange, clever new ...
more
Literary Fiction
Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
by
Lerone Martin
Amistad, 05/05/2026
We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform his outlook and his approach to ...
more
Young World
by
Soman Chainani
Random House, 05/05/2026
America is on the brink of collapse, and the youth have lost all faith in their leaders. As a pivotal election approaches, Benton Young, a high school...
more
A Siege of Owls: A Novel
by
Uchenna Awoke
Catapult, 05/12/2026
Ekwe, a boy driven often by hunger pangs, resents his twelve-year-old sister for not wanting to be married to a wealthy, adult man who offers the ...
more
American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
by
Isaac Fitzgerald
Knopf, 05/12/2026
"It's a difficult thing, to separate legend from story from memory from fact."
As a child, Isaac Fitzgerald was always captivated by Johnny ...
more
Coyoteland: A Novel
by
Vanessa Hua
Flatiron Books, 05/12/2026
Living in El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, is supposed to mean you've made it. So when Jin Chang moves there with his ...
more
Death of the Soccer God: A Novel
by
Dimitry Elias Léger
MCD, 05/12/2026
Gilbert Chevalier's life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by every woman he meets, and blessed with incomparable talents on the ...
more
Ignore All Previous Instructions
by
Ada Hoffmann
Tachyon Publications, 05/12/2026
Kelli Reynolds loves creating stories more than anything in the world. But on Callisto, a generative AI company called Inspiration owns everything, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century Literature
by
Maïa Hruska
Ecco, 05/12/2026
"What happens to a writer's work when it is translated–specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"
In
Kafkaesque, Maïa ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Make Me Better: A Novel
by
Sarah Gailey
Tor Books, 05/12/2026
An exclusive invitation.
A remote island infamous for its miraculous ecology.
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to fix everything that's broken.
But ...
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Men Like Ours: A Novel
by
Bindu Bansinath
Bloomsbury Publishing, 05/12/2026
When Matthew Pillai is found dead, slumped over the wheel of his BMW, the women of Willow Road are roped into the investigation of their friend's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
by
Barry Walters
Viking, 05/12/2026
From the underground dancefloors of the Seventies to the global charts of the Nineties, LGBTQ artists and audiences shaped music's sound, style, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Name Was Gerry Sass: A Novel
by
Tiffany Hanssen
Atlantic Crime, 05/12/2026
Gerry Sass is not who he appears to be. On the surface, he is the proud owner of a local country music station outside of Mystic, Iowa. Beneath it, he...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
New Skin: A Novel
by
Sarah Wang
Little Brown & Company, 05/12/2026
At twenty-six, Linli Feng is still trying to escape her mother Fanny's orbit. But after three years of estrangement, just when Linli has been accepted...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Radiant Star
by
Ann Leckie
Orbit, 05/12/2026
The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star has always been a source of both conflict and hope for the people of Ooioiaa. However, the imperial Radch ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Robert B. Parker's Booked: Sunny Randall #13
by
Alison Gaylin
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 05/12/2026
World famous author Melanie Joan Hart asks for Sunny's help in tracking down Book Babe, the screen-name of an enormously popular book reviewer, who ...
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Thrillers
Seek the Traitor's Son
by
Veronica Roth
Tor Books, 05/12/2026
Elegy Ahn did not ask for destiny to find her.
She is happy with her life as a soldier, defending her small country from the Talusar, a powerful ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Spinning at the Edges: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Poliner
Harper, 05/12/2026
For much of her adult life Ruth Pearl has lived in the small New England town of Wells, Connecticut, on the shore of Lake Topaqua. Decades back, when ...
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The Bone Door: A Novel
by
Frances White
Hanover Square Press, 05/12/2026
When Hop awakens in an ancient labyrinth, he has no memory of his life, or how he got here.
He does not recognise the mysterious girl trapped with ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Forgotten Midwife
by
Laura Anthony
Gallery Books, 05/12/2026
New Jersey, 2023. Riley Carmichael is getting married and finally joining a huge, loving family, but she can't help but feel the emptiness of her own ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Foursome: A Novel
by
Christina Baker Kline
Mariner Books, 05/12/2026
When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they're not just a curiosity—they're a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Franchise
by
Thomas Elrod
Tor Books, 05/12/2026
A land filled with magic and dragons and wizards and warriors.
Thousands of people live and work within its borders, fearful of their enemies and...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Hanging Bones
by
Elle Tesch
Feiwel & Friends, 05/12/2026
Some monsters are born. Some are made. All can be killed.
Once every few years, the Scavenge Moon rises. From beyond its pale glow steps the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Last Mandarin: A Novel
by
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books, 05/12/2026
In a fast-paced, all-too-real thriller co-written by #1
New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny and award-winning journalist Mellissa Fung, ...
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The Lost Book of Lancelot: A Novel
by
John Glynn
Grand Central Publishing, 05/12/2026
Hidden away on the Isle of Women, a nameless orphan grows up among a powerful sisterhood, but always at a distance. He hears whispers of a prophecy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The May House: A Novel
by
Jillian Cantor
Atria Books, 05/12/2026
No matter what's going on in the May sisters' lives, the one thing they can rely upon is seeing each other for one week in May at their grandmother's ...
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Literary Fiction
The Pillagers' Guide to Arctic Pianos: A Novel
by
Kendra Langford Shaw
Pantheon Books, 05/12/2026
In the far reaches of the Territory of the Arctic, the Spahr family lives on a fjord accessible only by kayak and float plane, in a landscape rapidly ...
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Three Days Grace
by
Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato
Indigo River Publishing, 05/12/2026
On the eve of their trip to South Africa, Lynne and her wife, Susan, await three guests in a Paris hotel: Nick, Lynne's distant son; Laslo, Susan's ...
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Literary Fiction
Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.
by
Jonathan Vigliotti
One Signal, 05/12/2026
In
Torched, Vigliotti brings readers inside the inferno that devastated Los Angeles, weaving on-the-ground reporting with the deeper story of how a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Vilhelm's Room: A Novel
by
Tove Ditlevsen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/12/2026
I want to write a book about Vilhelm's room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise's death, which I have ...more
When Companies Run the Courts: How Forced Arbitration Became America's Secret Justice System
by
Brendan Ballou
Public Affairs, 05/12/2026
America has a hidden justice system. There, decisions are made in secret, and "judges" are paid for by the companies and abusers who are being sued. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Your Promise: A Novel
by
Camille Laurens
Other Press, 05/12/2026
When novelist Claire Lancel's relationship with Gilles Fabian began, it felt like a dream, an idyllic love story. 6 months in, during a romantic ...
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Thrillers
A Perfect Hand: A Novel
by
Ayelet Waldman
Knopf, 05/19/2026
Miss Alice Lockey, daughter of a tenant farmer, has by dint of hard work, innate intelligence, and a cunning ability to predict the moods of her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Time to Gather: How Ritual Created the World--and How It Can Save Us
by
Bruce Feiler
Penguin Books, 05/19/2026
Since time immemorial, humans have turned to ritual to connect us in periods of change. Until today. Birth rituals and coming-of-age rituals have ...
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All Them Dogs: A Novel
by
Djamel White
Riverhead Books, 05/19/2026
Tony Ward is back in Dublin. After five years in England, where he fled after murdering a rival gang member, he returns to find that his mentor is ...
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All Us Saints: A Novel
by
Katherine Packert Burke
Bloomsbury USA, 05/19/2026
Exactly 19 years ago, in May of 1992, 17-year-old Roland St. Cloud fatally stabbed his twin sister Edna's three best friends. The slaying became ...
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Literary Fiction
An Expanse of Blue
by
Kauakanilehua Mahoe Adams
Heartdrum, 05/19/2026
Aouli Elizabeth Smith is adrift: unheard at home and an unbeliever at church, fighting her sister and losing her best friend. Overflowing with feeling...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Broken Truths: A Novel
by
Alessandro Robecchi
Other Press, 05/19/2026
An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the height of his success because he found the ...
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Canon: A Novel
by
Paige Lewis
Viking, 05/19/2026
Yara can't comprehend why God has chosen them to slay Dominic, the ruthless leader of the army of Bad Guys. Cast out by their family and reeling from ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
by
Zayd Ayers Dohrn
W.W. Norton & Company, 05/19/2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the FBI's Ten Most ...
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Dear Missing Friend
by
Susan McGuirk
Sea Crow Press, 05/19/2026
A character-driven historical saga featuring the love triangle of a seaman, a governess and a wealthy speculator. Told through letters, the sweep of ...
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Historical Fiction
Decomposition Book: A Novel
by
Sara van Os
Hanover Square Press, 05/19/2026
Spiraling from a disastrous falling-out with her best friend, Savannah retreats to her parents' empty lake house in upstate New York to tend her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Eat Bitter: A Story About Guts, and Food
by
Lydia Pang
HarperOne, 05/19/2026
Eat bitter is a Chinese proverb meaning 'endure hardship to taste sweetness.' For Lydia Pang, it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors, a ...
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Biography/Memoir
Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics
by
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Beacon Press, 05/19/2026
"I see physics everywhere," Karmela Padavic-Callaghan writes. "It offers itself to me when I try to make sense of all the paths my life did and did ...
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Biography/Memoir
Glyph: A Novel
by
Ali Smith
Pantheon Books, 05/19/2026
Ghosts don't exist.
They don't. End of.
Story, however.
It is haunting.
Everything tells it.
It all starts when Petra and ...
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How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
by
Theo Baker
Penguin Press, 05/19/2026
Slush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley's favored teenagers.
Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Hungered: A Novel
by
Amanda Rizkalla
Henry Holt and Company, 05/19/2026
Sofia's mother promises that soon she'll have her own bedroom to decorate. Soon, too, she'll be able to see her friends, go back to school, and eat ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Inferno: The Nero Trilogy #3
by
Conn Iggulden
Pegasus Books, 05/19/2026
AD 60. Rome stands at the height of its power—glittering with wealth, drowning in intrigue.
On Palatine Hill, Nero Claudius Caesar rules as ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
It's Hard to Be an Animal: A Novel
by
Robert Isaacs
Grand Central Publishing, 05/19/2026
Strolling through Central Park on a blind date with the hilarious, irrepressible Molly Bent, Henry Parsons is feeling hopeful for the first time in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter
by
Dr. Ada Ferrer
Scribner, 05/19/2026
In 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power, Ada Ferrer's mother made the agonizing decision to flee Cuba with her infant daughter, Ada, and ...
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Landing in Place: A Graphic Novel
by
Sherine Hamdy
Kokila, 05/19/2026
Anisa is following in her sister Reem's footsteps: She's a freshman at her sister's alma mater, she's on the same premed track, and she's inherited ...
more
Magician
by
Tracy Lynne Oliver
Roxane Gay Books, 05/19/2026
First, he is a Boy, born to a Mother who cannot abide his existence. Despite her torments, the Boy finds a way to survive and create a small space for...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Mare: A Novel
by
Emily Haworth-Booth
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/19/2026
For a long time, a woman lives with her husband and their dog. She teaches writing courses, plods away at a book of her own, and doesn't think much ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Memory Rehearsal
by
Eleni Sikelianos
City Lights Publishers, 05/19/2026
In 1901, Eva Palmer abandoned her life as a privileged New York socialite, moving to Paris with her lover, the writer, and salonist, Natalie Barney. ...
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Biography/Memoir
Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
by
Ece Temelkuran
Scribner, 05/19/2026
Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?
Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed ...
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Biography/Memoir
On Witness and Respair: Essays
by
Jesmyn Ward
Scribner, 05/19/2026
Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair.
From the two-time National Book Award winner and
New York Times bestselling author Jesmyn ...
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Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited—and the Fight to Retake Control
by
Lisa E Davis
Simon & Schuster, 05/19/2026
When we think about the things that have barred success for African Americans, intellectual property law is hardly the first thing that comes to mind,...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Palaces of the Crow: A Novel
by
Ray Nayler
MCD, 05/19/2026
Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, has befriended a local flock of crows in her shtetl. Czeslaw is an underage Polish ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Pollock's Last Lover: A Novel of Art and Deception
by
Stephen P. Kiernan
William Morrow, 05/19/2026
In 2006, Sotheby's sells a painting by Jackson Pollock for $140 million—the highest sum ever paid for a work of art. Two weeks later, an older ...
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Literary Fiction
Returns and Exchanges: A Novel
by
Kayla Rae Whitaker
Random House, 05/19/2026
It's December 24, 1979, just before closing at Baker-Taylor's, and Fran (née Baker) is surveying her domain. Her husband, Fred, is charming ...
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Score: Hollywood Renaissance #2
by
Kennedy Ryan
Forever, 05/19/2026
You never forget your first love. Isn't that what they say? Verity Hill knows this truth intimately. She didn't simply miss Wright "Monk" Bellamy when...
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Tarantula
by
Eduardo Halfon
Bellevue Literary Press, 05/19/2026
In 1984, Eduardo and his younger brother, living in exile for several years in the United States, travel back to their native Guatemala to participate...
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The Burning Side: A Novel
by
Sarah Damoff
Little Simon, 05/19/2026
When April and Leo's house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind
by
Rosa Montero
Europa Editions, 05/19/2026
In this bold and deeply researched blend of memoir, essay, literary analysis, and intellectual sleuth story, Montero draws on psychology, neuroscience...
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The Echoing Universe: How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos
by
Dr. Emma Chapman Ph.D.
Basic Books, 05/19/2026
In space, no one can hear you scream.
But the universe is far from silent. It's been speaking all along, broadcasting its stories and...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism
by
Alexander Lee
Basic Books, 05/19/2026
In the early sixteenth century, amidst the ruins of war and mounting religious hatred, the world's first Jewish "ghetto" was established in Venice. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Gulf of Lions
by
Caitlin Shetterly
Harper, 05/19/2026
Reconciling with her husband after a betrayal and recovering from a yearlong battle with breast cancer, Alice longs for an escape from the trials of ...
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The Hope Keeper: A Novel
by
Heather Webb
Sourcebooks Landmark, 05/19/2026
Desperate for work, she approaches the affluent crowd her brother Julien once courted to expand Beaumont Jewelers. Their ringleader is wealthy ...
more
Historical Fiction
The One Day You Were My Husband: A Novel
by
Rosie Walsh
Pamela Dorman Books, 05/19/2026
Carrie and Johan marry on a beach in Thailand only months into their whirlwind romance. Carrie, a British surgical intern, is too happy to care that ...
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The Players Club: A Novel
by
Rachel Mills
Atria Books, 05/19/2026
Beth Greenwood has spent her life playing it safe. She's been a graphic designer at the same company for a decade, she dutifully meets men from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War
by
James Verini
Simon & Schuster, 05/19/2026
In March of 2022, three weeks after invading Ukraine, Russian forces bombed the shelter housed in the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater, in the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Villain: Hench #2
by
Natalie Zina Walschots
William Morrow, 05/19/2026
The hench once called Anna, now known to her colleagues and enemies as the Auditor, has carved out a wicked name for herself. Any superhero unlucky ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Hear a New World: A Novel (Long London #2
by
Alan Moore
Bloomsbury Publishing, 05/21/2026
It's 1958 and Dennis Knuckleyard has decided to leave his adventures in the Great When in the past where they belong. For nine years, he's avoided so ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Fortune of Sand: A Novel
by
Ruta Sepetys
Ballantine Books, 05/26/2026
Detroit, 1927. A city of smoke and ambition, where glittering wealth conceals a graveyard of secrets.
Marjorie Lennox is the youngest daughter...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries
by
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Crown, 05/26/2026
Celebrated public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American history and the country's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
And How Have You Been?
by
Maria Judite de Carvalho
Two Lines Press, 05/26/2026
In her usual, incisive prose, Carvalho returns to what really threatens us, not the sea or witchcraft or a lion with watchful eyes, but people and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Babylon, South Dakota: A Novel
by
Tom Lin
Little Brown & Company, 05/26/2026
When Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife, Mei Lee, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Being Aro: A Collection of Aromantic Fiction about Love, Connection, and Empowerment
by
Madeline Dyer, Rosiee Thor
Page Street YA, 05/26/2026
These twelve stories showcase aromantic people breaking generational curses, finding acceptance, and protecting the vulnerable while highlighting the ...
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Dead Weight
by
Hildur Knútsdóttir
Tor Nightfire, 05/26/2026
Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door.
When she tracks down the cat's wayward owner, she finds a young...
more
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution
by
Sarah M. S. Pearsall
Doubleday, 05/26/2026
While the American Revolution is often celebrated as the birth of American "exceptionalism," award-winning historian Sarah M. S. Pearsall argues ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ghalen: A Romance in Black
by
Walter Mosley
Amistad, 05/26/2026
One of the most acclaimed writers working today, Walter Mosley spins magic once again in this beautiful novel that explores the lives of Black ...
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I'll Watch Your Baby: A Novel
by
Neena Viel
St. Martin's Griffin, 05/26/2026
1974. Lottie Turner is already infamous. Running a wheel of schemes and scams, she's willing to work for what she wants in…creative ways. But no...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Inspiration Porn: Essays
by
Ryan O'Connell
St. Martin's Press, 05/26/2026
For years, Ryan O'Connell wished he was different. Raised in a small Southern California beach town described as "Laguna Beach with meth," his dad had...
more
Killing Spree: Poems
by
Jorie Graham
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 05/26/2026
In a review of her first book,
Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts (1980),
The New York Times heralded Jorie Graham as a "poet of large ambitions and ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe
by
Gail Crowther
Gallery Books, 05/26/2026
Far from the spotlights of the Hollywood film sets and the flashbulbs of the press, Marilyn Monroe was a great reader and lover of books. Her ...
more
Meet Me at the Picket Line
by
Jasper Sanchez
HarperCollins Publishers, 05/26/2026
All's fair in love and solidarity...
Eli Goldstein might be the only teenager looking forward to earning minimum wage at his objectively terrible ...
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Night Objects: A Novel
by
Eli Raphael
Grand Central Publishing, 05/26/2026
It is true that I wished him dead dozens of times. Hundreds, even. But I, Lenny Winter, did not kill that boy.
Lenny Winter is fifteen years-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
No God but Us: A Novel
by
Bobuq Sayed
Harper, 05/26/2026
When Delbar—a hapless twenty-something with dreams of becoming a drag queen—is spectacularly outed, he flees the insular immigrant-dense ...
more
Nothing on Earth
by
Ian MacKenzie
The Unnamed Press, 05/26/2026
For a long time, Anna was in counterterrorism, but now she is on a new mission, one which has friends and enemies across the globe scrambling to find ...
more
Thrillers
Ode to the Half-Broken
by
Suzanne Palmer
DAW Books, 05/26/2026
Thirty years ago the world nearly ended.
Be was there, but the old robot has since settled into a life of isolation in the abandoned New York ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It: A Novel
by
Brooke Averick
Crown, 05/26/2026
Is it possible to find true love when going on a date makes you want to throw up?
Phoebe Berman fears the one thing she wants the most: love. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Pixie
by
Jill Dawson
Bloomsbury Publishing, 05/26/2026
"Pixie". I like it. "Pixie Pamela". It's a good name for me: sometimes tiny and invisible. Other times bouncing up to the ceiling to look down on ...more
Historical Fiction
Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You: A Novel
by
Julián Delgado Lopera
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 05/26/2026
It is a known fact that the queens who refuse their destiny are haunted. Rejection turns itself inward, a bullet to the heart of said queen, and ...more
Say Nephew: Boyhood, Unclehood, and Queer Mentorship
by
Steven Pfau
Catapult, 05/26/2026
Blending memoir and criticism, Steven Pfau pays tribute to the gay uncles who have shaped his sense of queer identity, culture, and history. The most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
by
Joseph Osmundson
Bloomsbury Publishing, 05/26/2026
Since grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the queer scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia ...
more
The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy
by
Jeffrey Winters
Scribner, 05/26/2026
The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the many throughout most of human history. This is now more starkly visible than ever—a time when, ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Land and Its People: Essays
by
David Sedaris
Little Brown & Company, 05/26/2026
In
The Land and Its People, Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. Trying on the role of caretaker after ...
more
The Lost Soldiers: Kyiv Mysteries #3
by
Andrey Kurkov
HarperVia, 05/26/2026
Fresh from the case of the stolen heart, one that shattered his belief in the regime he works for, Samson Kolechko is confronted by a new mystery that...
more
The Maidenheads: A Novel
by
Benny B. Peterson
Dutton, 05/26/2026
Jamie is bad at endings, which is why she's stuck at a dead-end Baltimore newspaper job, continuing to have break-up sex with her first-ever hetero ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Midnight Train: A Novel
by
Matt Haig
Viking, 05/26/2026
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.
The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.
To see what kind of person...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays
by
Andrea Hairston
Tor Books, 05/26/2026
Every Sunday, Oona the St. Berdoodle and her current owner, Zsuzsu, make their way through the winding paths of the State Park to the enigmatic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Summer Boy: A Novel
by
Philippe Besson
Scribner, 05/26/2026
Tell me, do you know why the most beautiful love stories must always end badly?
In the summer of 1985, on a scruffy resort island off the ...
more
The Tuxedo Society: A Novel
by
Paul Rudnick
Atria Books, 05/26/2026
They are fierce patriots. They are licensed to kill. And they are really, really gay. Welcome to democracy's secret weapon, the Tuxedo Society.
...
more
Waiting on a Friend: A Novel
by
Natalie Adler
Hogarth Books, 05/26/2026
Renata is a young dyke-about-town who can see ghosts, something she's doing more and more of lately as too many of her friends are dying of a new, ...
more
We Could Be Anyone
by
Anna-Marie McLemore
Feiwel & Friends, 05/26/2026
Lola and I grew up hearing that we could become anything, but our parents hadn't meant it the way gringo parents did. They meant it as a warning.
...
more
When No One Else Will
by
Amanda Skenandore
Kensington Publishing, 05/26/2026
In the fall of 1939, while Europe grapples with the outbreak of war, Mimi Lukas wages a private battle in her Chicago neighborhood. Her husband, Stan,...
more
Historical Fiction
True Crime
1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
by
Liaquat Ahamed
Penguin Press, 06/02/2026
Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Pair of Aces
by
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
Berkley Books, 06/02/2026
Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan's first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on the one and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Alan Opts Out: A Novel
by
Courtney Maum
Little Brown & Company, 06/02/2026
Alan Anderson is a powerful advertising executive who has built a successful life and thriving business by making people buy stuff they don't actually...
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An Artful Dodge
by
Karen Odden
Soho Crime, 06/02/2026
London, 1879: Twenty-year-old Kit Jimeson has fingers so nimble she can nick a necklace off a lady in a crowded theater without raising alarm. Kit and...
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Bad Queer
by
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
Faber and Faber, 06/02/2026
I feel invincible.
Like I could run and run
and never stop for breath.
I feel a power in me
I didn't know I had.
The ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
Called by the Hills: A Wild Flowering in the Himalaya
by
Anuradha Roy
HarperOne, 06/02/2026
When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they ...
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Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess
by
Ben Mezrich
Grand Central Publishing, 06/02/2026
In September 2022, the unthinkable happened: nineteen-year-old American chess prodigy Hans Niemann defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Collapse: A Novel
by
Édouard Louis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/02/2026
Édouard's brother spent much of his life dreaming. He lived in a poor, working-class world, where he imagined that he would become one of the ...
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Crescendo: A Novel
by
Jane Healey
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/02/2026
Max Kitson is a world-renowned pianist, and his twin sister, Natasha, is his manager and minder. But when, in 1957, at age 20, the former prodigy ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb
by
Sarah Valentine
Harper, 06/02/2026
Facing the global threat of a rising Communist world power in the aftermath of World War II, the U.S. employed hundreds of Black Americans to speed ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Girl's Girl: A Novel
by
Sonia Feldman
The Dial Press, 06/02/2026
Fifteen-year-old Mina's whole world is her two best friends, but after an unexpected kiss, the established dynamics of their trio quickly unravel. ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Goldenborn
by
Ama Ofosua Lieb
Scholastic Press, 06/02/2026
Akoma Addo has one rule: don't get too close to the supernatural.
Ever since a blazing orb of light left her father in a coma, she's buried herself...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Hunger and Thirst: A Novel
by
Claire Fuller
Ballantine Books, 06/02/2026
1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job delivering mail at a ...
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I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes
by
Andrew Wilson
Grand Central Publishing, 06/02/2026
Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon. Featuring a wealth of unpublished material,
I Wanna Be Loved By You presents Marilyn in a startling new light. It draws upon...
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Land: A Novel
by
Maggie O'Farrell
Knopf, 06/02/2026
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Lovers XXX
by
Allie Rowbottom
Soho Press, 06/02/2026
Los Angeles, 1982. Jude is eighteen, newly out of reform school and hungry for more than her small-town past can offer. Searching for her best friend,...
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Mad Eden: A Novel
by
Morgan Thomas
MCD, 06/02/2026
Ro and Liam live in a ramshackle cabin in a secluded stretch of Florida. Neither their home nor their sometimes-tumultuous relationship is what the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Medicine Wheels
by
Byron Graves
Heartdrum, 06/02/2026
When Bryce's mom walks out on her abusive boyfriend and back into jail for breaking her probation, he's left facing the summer of his junior year with...
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Meeting New People: A Novel
by
Daniel M. Lavery
HarperVia, 06/02/2026
Sixty something, twice-divorced Barbara is at a crossroads. In the midst of her emotional uncertainty, she looks back on the dissolution of the nine ...
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Monique Escapes: A Novel
by
Édouard Louis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/02/2026
Late one night, Édouard receives a telephone call from his mother. In tears, she tells him that her partner, her first since her abusive marriage...
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Puck: A Novel
by
Samantha Allen
Zando, 06/02/2026
Meet Puck: the nonbinary, thirty-year-old mastermind behind
Homewreckers, a dating show that puts troubled couples through hell—with a little ...
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Rabbit, Fox, Tar: A Novel
by
P.C. Verrone
Catapult, 06/02/2026
When Baby appears in Original Hill, her name is on everyone's lips. A young Black woman is a rare sight in this part of town, and she sits all day on ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Rebellious: The Story of Keith Haring in 12 Pictures
by
Michael G. Long
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/02/2026
As an artist and activist, one theme remained a constant throughout Keith Haring's life: rebellion. In this young adult biography, acclaimed author ...
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Restrung: A Memoir of Music and Transformation
by
Vijay Gupta
Da Capo, 06/02/2026
By age twenty-five, Vijay Gupta had lived several lifetimes: he played Carnegie Hall at eight, studied at Juilliard and Yale before most had finished ...
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Shadow Reaper
by
Lynette Noni
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 06/02/2026
The city of Aravell is in peril, plagued by a deadly blackmist and reapers who roam the streets, stealing magic from innocent children in their thirst...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen
by
Charles O'Malley, Scott W. Stern
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/02/2026
She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear's daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sisters of a Halved Heart: A Novel
by
Nayantara Roy
Algonquin Books, 06/02/2026
Indian-American Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York. She reconnects with Jack, an old acquaintance ...
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Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran
by
Yeganeh Torbati, Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Doubleday, 06/02/2026
In 1979, a revolution in Iran swept aside a monarchy, fueled by the Iranian people's dreams of social justice and political freedom. But in the years ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Sublimation
by
Isabel J. Kim
Tor Books, 06/02/2026
The border cuts you in two.
When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind. One person enters their new country, the other stays trapped ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Summerland Cove: A Novel
by
Ellen Baker
Mariner Books, 06/02/2026
Lindy has the summer of a lifetime planned at her family's beloved cottage in Summerland Cove, Maine, where she's spent summers all her life and where...
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Literary Fiction
Tell Your Friends: A Novel
by
Lauren Wilson
Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, 06/02/2026
University was meant to be Crystal's way out. Growing up, there was nothing in her life that couldn't be turned into content for her mother's popular ...
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The Adventures of Juan Planchard
by
Jonathan Jakubowicz
Grand Central Publishing, 06/02/2026
"My name is Juan Planchard. I'm twenty-nine years old, and I have five million dollars in my account. I own a house in Caracas, another in Madrid, and...more
The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America's Eastern Wilderness
by
Andrew Moore
Mariner Books, 06/02/2026
Before skyscrapers and smokestacks rose across the eastern U.S., elk, bison, wolves, and cougars roamed. Typically imagined as icons of the West, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Bookseller: A DS George Cross Mystery
by
Tim Sullivan
Atlantic Crime, 06/02/2026
Detective Sergeant George Cross has a knack for dismissing red herrings: He goes by the cold hard facts, and nothing else. But with a concerning ...
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Thrillers
The Children: A Novel
by
Melissa Albert
William Morrow, 06/02/2026
Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History
by
Thomas W. Laqueur
Penguin Books, 06/02/2026
Long before the phrase man's best friend became common parlance, dogs were already standing beside us in art as in life. In
The Dog's Gaze, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Double Dutch Fuss: A Memoir
by
Phill Branch
Amistad, 06/02/2026
Long before every moment of our lives was tracked by technology, Phill Branch was under surveillance. His father was a football-playing, weed-smoking,...
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The Game of Oaths
by
S. C. Bandreddi
Candlewick Press, 06/02/2026
It's 1896. Beneath a hotel in the heart of Paris is the famed le Cirque des Ombres, led by ringmaster and Enchanteur Jean-Pierre. But behind the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Hidden Nations of Animals: A Grand Tour of Earth's Wild Civilizations
by
Ryan Huling
Avery, 06/02/2026
From far-flung forest settlements in Canada's "beaver belt" to disputed territories of clashing Argentine ant armies, Ryan Huling's around-the-world ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
The Jellyfish Problem
by
Tessa Yang
Berkley Books, 06/02/2026
Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he died seven months ago. So she spends her days hidden away at...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy
by
Matthew Campbell
Portfolio, 06/02/2026
Amidst the chaos of Cambodia's brutal genocide, a new crime wave emerged—one that would sweep across borders and entangle the world's most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue
by
Zoulfa Katouh
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/02/2026
Seventeen-year-old Jihad Dabbagh has always seen life with a heightened sense for colors, one of many magical blessings the women in her family ...
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The Queen's Coronation: A Novel
by
Jennifer Ryan
Ballantine Books, 06/02/2026
London, 1953. Buckingham Palace and the many employees vital to the smooth running of the monarchy find themselves in bedlam as the Queen's coronation...
more
Historical Fiction
The Return of the Great Powers
by
Brendan Simms
Basic Books, 06/02/2026
From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Spiritualists
by
Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 06/02/2026
Stella Bohdan is never alone—never—and yet she is the loneliest person she knows, dead or alive. A gifted psychic who can hear the voices ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day America
by
Geoff Williams
Pegasus Books, 06/02/2026
In 1936, ironically after one of the coldest winters on record, North America experienced a heat wave that remains unmatched today. Thanks to a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions
by
Ruth Ozeki
Viking, 06/02/2026
In this spirited and emotionally resonant collection, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki turns her singular gaze to the short story, exploring ...
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The Unicorn Hunters: A Novel
by
Katherine Arden
Del Rey, 06/02/2026
Anne of Brittany was a child when France invaded and drove her royal father to his death. Now she is a young woman, sovereign duchess of an occupied ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wilder Way: A Memoir of Adventure, Freedom, and an Uncharted Life
by
Eva zu Beck
Gallery Books, 06/02/2026
Are you living with a capital "L"? When was the last time you truly felt you were your wildest, most free, most alive self? Eva zu Beck, professional ...
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The Windsor Affair: A Novel
by
Melanie Benjamin
Delacorte Press, 06/02/2026
Feuding Windsor brothers and their wives—some things, it seems, never change.
The Windsor Affair recreates the cataclysmic events that nearly ...
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Historical Fiction
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
by
Eric Jay Dolin
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/02/2026
From the best–selling author of
Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship
Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood: A Novel
by
Rasheed Newson
Flatiron Books, 06/02/2026
Xavier C. Barlow, one of Hollywood's young Black stars taking the industry by storm in the late 1950s, is Skyline Studios's ambitious attempt to rival...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
They All Fall in Love at the End: A Novel
by
Haili Blassingame
Scribner, 06/02/2026
It's the fall of 2024, and twenty-four-year-old Cat isn't asking for too much: all she wants is three boyfriends, to write her little novels, and to ...
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Literary Fiction
Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival
by
Justine van der Leun
Ecco, 06/02/2026
When award-winning journalist Justine van der Leun began looking into the issue of criminalized survival, she was astonished to see how women were ...
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Valley of the Moms: A Novel
by
Hannah Selinger
Little Brown & Company, 06/02/2026
Hamilton, Massachusetts is one of those suburban towns that appears untouched by the outside world where stay-at-home moms wear 2ct diamond studs to ...
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What Came West: A Novel
by
Josh Weil
Doubleday, 06/02/2026
Sierra Nevada, 1840s, just before the Gold Rush ignites. Silas Hall has never belonged anywhere except the wild. Bullied as a child and uneasy even ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class
by
Chris Smalls
Pantheon Books, 06/02/2026
In the early days of the Covid pandemic, warehouse worker Chris Smalls and his colleagues continued showing up as the rest of the world was shutting ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Where You'll Find Us
by
Jen St. Jude
Bloomsbury YA, 06/02/2026
Calla Quick has no future. At least, that's how it feels. Her parents disowned her via text message, and now she can't afford to go to an all-women's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Whistler: A Novel
by
Ann Patchett
Harper, 06/02/2026
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man...
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Without Terminus: untraining an archive
by
Chaun Webster
Graywolf Press, 06/02/2026
In his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual poetics, and cultural criticism to trace the ways ...
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A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America
by
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Atlantic Monthly Press, 06/09/2026
Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Protestant "city on a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Way Home: A Memoir of Losing Yourself, and the Beauty of Returning
by
Cinelle Barnes
Little A, 06/09/2026
In 2023, Cinelle Barnes is writing a travelogue about journeying home to the Philippines after a twenty-year separation when she suffers a traumatic ...
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Biography/Memoir
Baby in a Box: Stories
by
Sarah Braunstein
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/09/2026
These stunning stories, steeped in dark humor, startle and dismay, and introduce us to a cast of eccentric and wholly believable characters. ...
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Short Stories
Based on a True Story: A Novel
by
Sarah Vaughan
Harper, 06/09/2026
All families have secrets. But it's the lies that can kill.
A lavish seventieth birthday party. A body found on a storm-lashed beach. And a secret ...
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Beard Science
by
Penny Reid
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 06/09/2026
Jennifer Sylvester wants one thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee's reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the perpetual good girl and obedient ...
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Romance
Blue Beach
by
Karyn Parsons
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/09/2026
Fifteen-year-old Blue Collins's parents own the only Black beach in Santa Monica in 1929. She loves spending time there with her handsome friend Ben ...
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Cat Love: A Novel
by
Tomás Q. Morín
Pantheon Books, 06/09/2026
The indelible cat heroine of this unexpected tale recalls her life with "the Mustache," her beloved owner. Trapped in a one-way mirrored box, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Children of the Wild: A Novel
by
Kevin Powers
Harper, 06/09/2026
Ewer's Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and return with the technical knowledge ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register
by
Ann Larson
One Signal, 06/09/2026
Grocery stores may all seem the same. But the supermarket as an institution is anything but ordinary or one-dimensional. At the supermarket where I ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Contrapposto: A Novel
by
Dave Eggers
Knopf, 06/09/2026
Cricket Dib, born on the American prairie, has no particular prospects or ambitions until, in grade school, he realizes he can draw. He soon meets a ...
more
Daughters of the Sun and Moon: A Novel
by
Lisa See
Scribner, 06/09/2026
In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Earth 7: A Novel
by
Deb Olin Unferth
Graywolf Press, 06/09/2026
Well, that's about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Fairfield County: A Novel
by
DéLana R. A. Dameron
The Dial Press, 06/09/2026
A sprawling landscape of sand, red clay, and pine trees, South Carolina's Fairfield County is the only place the Bolton family has ever called home. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Feast
by
Catherine Kurtz
Berkley Books, 06/09/2026
Minha is born on the backstreets of late-nineteenth-century London, daughter of an Indian spice merchant and an English prostitute. She has a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Freedom: Essays
by
Zinzi Clemmons
Viking, 06/09/2026
Weaving personal reflections with piercing insight and expansive vision across nine brilliant essays, Zinzi Clemmons explores the complexities of the ...
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Heather: A Novel
by
Caitlin Mullen
Celadon, 06/09/2026
1994. In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley's twin sister, Sabrina, has been having an affair ...
more
Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
by
Katherine Grandjean
Random House, 06/09/2026
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then another...
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
by
James M. Tabor
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/09/2026
In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Nymph: A Novel
by
Sofia Montrone
Avid Reader Press, 06/09/2026
To ten-year-old Leo, life is a collection. She spends her mornings tidying the rooms of her Nonna Tina's timeworn Italian agriturismo, carefully ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Obstetrix
by
Naomi Kritzer
Tordotcom, 06/09/2026
O Lord, deliver us.
Doctor Liz has just been acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota when she's kidnapped.
They're not just ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Pool House: A Novel
by
Mary H.K. Choi
Flatiron Books, 06/09/2026
Stevie cannot escape her mother. Abandoning college plans to work a dead-end job, her days are a purgatorial bore. Many dream of moving to L.A. and ...
more
Rasputin Swims the Potomac: A Novel
by
Ben Fountain
Flatiron Books, 06/09/2026
Reporter Clarence Thomas Jr. is looking for a great story, former country music teen star Faith Spack has parlayed her fame into a job at the White ...
more
San Quentin Exodus
by
Bill Smoot
Apprentice House, 06/09/2026
His only friend is a pit bull he rescues from dog fighting. On the cusp of college, James commits a crime that results in a prison term of thirty to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Strangers Behind Closed Doors: A Novel
by
Catherine Adel West
Park Row, 06/09/2026
Giovanni Mason worked hard to become the first Black head concierge at Chicago's exclusive and glamorous Ivory Hotel. It's a job that requires ...
more
Summer's Never Over
by
Darby Bozeman
Berkley Books, 06/09/2026
Five years ago, Greer left her family's summer camp in the mountains of Georgia and vowed she'd never return. An idyllic season had turned into a ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
Swell
by
Bo-mi Son
Two Lines Press, 06/09/2026
But they're often filtered through the perspective of someone else: documentarians, novelists, storytellers, gossips. Then, as the stories build atop ...
more
Short Stories
The Animal Room
by
Lauren Acampora
Grove Press, 06/09/2026
Tensions simmer in small-town Connecticut. A city transplant is haunted by the deer carcass hanging in her neighbor's garage. A psychiatric patient ...
more
The Art of Becoming a Citizen: A Memoir
by
Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/09/2026
"He just had the presidency stolen from him."
It's November 1960, and a crush of reporters eagerly await the first postelection meeting ...
more
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
by
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/09/2026
The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Daffodil Days: A Novel
by
Helen Bain
Scribner, 06/09/2026
In the early 1960s in a small English town, the church bells ring. The people go about their days, catching glimpses of one another.
There's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Fervent Whites: A Novel
by
De'Shawn Charles Winslow
One World, 06/09/2026
The year is 1982 and the people of Fervent-on-Hudson have begun to move on from a local double homicide that upended the once-quiet town. But when ...
more
The Missed Connection
by
Tia Williams
Grand Central Publishing, 06/09/2026
Sasha Cruz knows types. As a booked-and-busy casting agent, she's always casting—at happy hour, the grocery store, everywhere. She's all about ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Traveler: One Man's Epic Quest to Discover Our Shared Humanity
by
Andrea Wulf
Knopf, 06/09/2026
From an early age, it was clear that George Forster possessed a brilliant mind. At just ten years old, he became a botanist when he accompanied his ...
more
The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers
by
Carlos Barragán
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/09/2026
Ikotun, one of Lagos's poorest neighborhoods, lies ten miles and a world away from the towers and beaches at the heart of Nigeria's megacity. By day, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
This Immortal Heart: A Novel of Aphrodite
by
Jennifer Saint
Ballantine Books, 06/09/2026
From the moment Aphrodite emerges fully formed from the sea, she is devastatingly beautiful and imbued with ancient power. Driven by passion yet ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America
by
David S. Reynolds
Penguin Press, 06/09/2026
In the bitterly polarized decades leading up to the American Civil War, it was commonplace to argue that America's strife could be traced back to the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Villa Coco: A Novel
by
Andrew Sean Greer
Doubleday, 06/09/2026
Broke and directionless, our young man (the chosen moniker of
Villa Coco's narrator) takes a job in the Italian countryside as the all-purpose ...
more
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves
by
Stephen O'Connor
Bellevue Literary Press, 06/09/2026
Günter Zeitz, psychoanalyst-in-training and the son of a Catholic country doctor, and Josine Rosen, Sigmund Freud's patient and the daughter of a...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
by
Katja Hoyer
Basic Books, 06/09/2026
The Central German town of Weimar is perhaps most familiar to non-Germans for giving its name to the Weimar Republic. After Germany's inglorious ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
You, Me, and Infinity
by
Deb Caletti
Labyrinth Road, 06/09/2026
When Margaret sees Mars for the first time, it doesn't feel like love at first sight so much as future at first sight—she just knows right away ...
more
A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
by
Sarah J. Jackson
Mariner Books, 06/16/2026
When Black mediamakers raise their voices and speak uncomfortable truths about America, they shape memories of the nation and push us toward a future ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Arrivals and Departures: A Novel
by
Amanda Eyre Ward
Ballantine Books, 06/16/2026
The Perkins family has problems. They're scattered across the globe. Lee, a glamorous reality-TV star, is struggling with her mental health in the ...
more
As If: A Novel
by
Isabel Waidner
FSG Originals, 06/16/2026
Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine has just walked out on his. Lewis is ...
more
Blood River Witch: A Novel
by
T J Martinson
Counterpoint Press, 06/16/2026
Deputy Sheriff Alicia Moore is thrust into the center of a chilling murder investigation when she discovers a victim identifiable only by his ...
more
Thrillers
Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself
by
Deni Elliott
Beacon Press, 06/16/2026
For years, renowned ethics scholar Deni Elliott lived with her own moral dilemma: though severely visually impaired since birth, she spent decades ...
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Cece Downing's Start Over Summer: A Novel
by
Soon Wiley
Dutton, 06/16/2026
Recently fired from her dependable career as an actuary, and recovering from a messy breakup with her fiancé, thirty-two-year-old Cece Downing is...
more
Literary Fiction
Charity and Sylvia
by
Tillie Walden
Drawn & Quarterly, 06/16/2026
The month is February in the year 1807. The place is Weybridge, Vermont: small, cold, lonely, and beautiful. Sylvia Drake is exhausted. As an unwed ...
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Come Undone: A Novel
by
Eddie Huang
One World, 06/16/2026
Hubie lives an exciting life. He hosts a traveling food show, works with his best friend, and samples the best the world has to offer. There's only ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper
by
Alex Wright
Basic Books, 06/16/2026
No society had ever generated so much ink and paper in so little time. Between the Revolutionary War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the number...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ghost-Eye: A Novel
by
Amitav Ghosh
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/16/2026
Varsha Gupta wants fish for lunch. Her family is shocked; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and ...
more
Good Company: A Novel
by
Kate Christensen
Harper, 06/16/2026
Ever since her father broke her heart when she was nine, Julia Heimdahl has tried to be good company for bad men: a jovial drinking companion, an ...
more
I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World
by
Sarah Wilson
Penguin Books, 06/16/2026
It's hard to escape the feeling that something is deeply wrong ... that life has become precariously off-balance. We are hit hourly with headlines ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World
by
Katherine Dunn
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/16/2026
Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that and squinted in exasperation before saying, "We're lost....
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
by
Lauren Hough
Pantheon Books, 06/16/2026
Lauren Hough has always been haunted by the road trips she never got to take: no money, no vacation days, no car capable of making the trip. So, upon ...
more
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
by
Amena Brown
Tiny Reparations, 06/16/2026
Black women always find a place to meet: in the natural hair aisle, at Beyoncé concerts, even online in memes and catchphrases. This book is one ...
more
Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
by
Perrin Roosevelt Ireland
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/16/2026
In delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body
by
Erin Maglaque
Astra House, 06/16/2026
Today, we understand the mind and the body to be distinct; that the mind exercises control over the flesh. But as Erin Maglaque experienced the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-and the American Revolution-Transformed Britain
by
Danielle Allen
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/16/2026
When Danielle Allen unearthed a parchment of the Declaration of Independence buried away in Sussex, England, little did she know that she had ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Self-Help for Serial Killers: A Novel
by
Asia Mackay
Bantam Books, 06/16/2026
This couple's midlife crisis is murder ... literally.
Hazel and Fox have it all: two children, a beautiful home, and a late-night habit of ...
more
Six Savage Thrones: Queens of Elben #2
by
Holly Race
Orbit, 06/16/2026
The kingdom of Elben is in turmoil. One of its magical palaces lies in ruins at the bottom of the ocean and the king is on the hunt for the traitor ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Somebody Worth Killing
by
Jessica Payne
Berkley Books, 06/16/2026
Nadia Davis is living the dream as a successful working mom with a career she loves, two adorable little girls, and a devoted husband who has no idea ...
more
The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State
by
Emmaia Gelman
University of California Press, 06/16/2026
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a major US political organization, yet its politics have gone largely unexamined. While the ADL is often portrayed...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Cruelty of Nice Folks: On Being Black in America's Liberal Heartland
by
Justin Ellis
Harper, 06/16/2026
It's the "North," they like to say, not the Midwest. It's different. We're nice here, progressive; Minneapolis is a city for everyone. But in 2020, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Emilys: A Novel
by
Heather Abel
Random House, 06/16/2026
"And if we weren't afraid of the darkness? What world would we make then?"
Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children in ...
more
The Frenzy: Stories
by
Joyce Carol Oates
Hogarth Books, 06/16/2026
Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity...more
The Lady Imam
by
Carla Power
One World, 06/16/2026
A fierce feminist, single mother of five, an advocate for and member of the LGBTQ+ community, and a respected scholar, amina wadud has led a revolt ...
more
Biography/Memoir
The Lowe Job: A Novel
by
Grace Alexander
William Morrow, 06/16/2026
When Lili Lowe gets caught having an affair with her married boss, an admired local politician, she finds herself at the epicenter of a scandal that ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter's Search for Goodness in a Cruel World
by
Sally Hayden
Scribner, 06/16/2026
We live in an era defined by crisis—whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Voyagers: A Novel
by
Meg Charlton
Harper, 06/16/2026
With many believing it could be first contact with extraterrestrial life, humanity holds its breath. But for Alex, a thirtysomething lawyer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Agnes Lives!: A Novel
by
Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/23/2026
New York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer is seeking the appropriate killer. Candidates include: an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
All This Want (and I Can't Get None)
by
T Clark
One World, 06/23/2026
Set mostly in and around a small working class neighborhood, Clark explores the lives of young Black girls, women, and nonbinary characters, slicing ...
more
Short Stories
Debut Author
Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand
by
Fiona Sampson
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/23/2026
By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In ...
more
Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
by
Matthew Wolfe
Viking, 06/23/2026
In the early hours of October 28, 1996, a driver in rural Oregon spotted flames rising from a federal ranger station. Firefighters quickly ...
more
Green City Wars
by
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Tor Books, 06/23/2026
In the solar cities of the future, the humans relax in the sun and the animals work in the shadows. Genetically engineered Little Helpers, serving ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
It Could Have Been Her: A Novel
by
Lisa Jewell
Atria Books, 06/23/2026
Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate one May afternoon when a small white dog appears. The teenaged girl that had been staying ...
more
It's All River: A Novel
by
Carla Madeira
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 06/23/2026
"Lucy was a virgin-whore. A dreamer. She wanted to test her power. She wanted men to fast for her, to grovel, to pay tithes."
Lusted after by ...
more
Literary Fiction
Little Wild: A Novel
by
Laura Evans
Henry Holt and Company, 06/23/2026
Suffolk, 1937. As the English countryside swelters in a historic heat wave, preparations for a party at Snare House are in full swing. The Winthers' ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Long Island Girls: A Novel
by
Gabrielle Korn
St. Martin's Press, 06/23/2026
The only thing Susan loves more than music is Eliza, and both keep breaking her heart.
The first time Susan and Eliza meet, it's 2005, and Susan is...
more
Mendo: How an Unlikely Group of Rebels Turned Cannabis into California's Cash Crop
by
Charlie Harris
Counterpoint Press, 06/23/2026
California's homegrown weed industry helped launch the solar power industry, and that's not all. Mendocino county--or Mendo--sits within California's ...
more
True Crime
Debut Author
Names Have Been Changed: A Novel
by
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Tiny Reparations, 06/23/2026
Ophir's tale begins in Singapore, where a petty crime spins out of control, estranging her from home and family. Resorting to false identities and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Nebraska
by
Monica Datta
Astra House, 06/23/2026
Anna Chatterjee has just been released from prison. Her husband, Prabir, has arrived to take her home and found her already gone; their flighty and ...
more
Nine Lives: A Novel
by
Catherine Steadman
Bantam Books, 06/23/2026
These are your neighbors. One is a killer.
Reeling from a very recent divorce, Frankie has moved into a glamorous London neighborhood. This is a ...
more
Thrillers
Nothing to My Name: A Novel
by
Kangkang Li Kovacs
Viking, 06/23/2026
Nothing to My Name chronicles the intertwined fates of three generations of Chinese women: Ah Xue, Mimosa, and Fei. The Grandmother, Ah Xue, witnesses...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Noticing: Intimate Encounters With the Natural World
by
Richard Louv
Algonquin Books, 06/23/2026
Long beloved for his insightful, inspiring nature writing, Richard Louv returns with his most personal book yet. Noticing is about discovering who you...
more
Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution
by
Denise Kiernan
Dutton, 06/23/2026
History has always celebrated the "Founding Fathers"—the sly but victorious tactics of Washington, the daring exploits of Lafayette, the grand ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Rainsong
by
Lila Riesen
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 06/23/2026
Mendocino is not the quaint coastal California town Zayn Pereira imagined. It's shrouded in a fog that never lets up. Posters of a missing teen girl ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Retro: A Novel
by
Jessica M. Goldstein
Ballantine Books, 06/23/2026
When Ash spots an ad for Retro during a depressing Instagram scroll—she's in debt and unemployed; everyone else is, evidently, thriving—...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Rule of Lies: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin's Russia
by
Jamison R. Firestone
Harper, 06/23/2026
Raised by his father, a multimillionaire conman and crack addict who owned Manhattan's most expensive brothel, twenty-four- year-old Jamison Firestone...
more
The Door in Penrose Forest: A Novel
by
Sean David Robinson
Crooked Lane Books, 06/23/2026
As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a research trip to investigate a stalled migration of monarch butterflies. One night, upon hearing her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Future Perfect: A Novel
by
Cay Kim
Riverhead Books, 06/23/2026
Before you are anything, you are a daughter.
At first you are at home inside your pregnant mother: a beloved daughter, a vision of the future. But ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery
by
Kaitlyn Tiffany
Crown, 06/23/2026
In the winter of 1967, the official account of the Kennedy assassination was beginning to unravel. A scattered group of Americans had pointed to major...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars
by
Isaac Butler
Bloomsbury Publishing, 06/23/2026
It's 1988, the final year of the Reagan presidency, and the curtain is closing on the Cold War. In the absence of external adversaries, the American ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Tinder Box
by
M. R. Carey
Orbit, 06/23/2026
Wounded in his county's endless wars, former soldier Mag Tresti finds work in the home of a reclusive widow, Jannae Mirchella. But Jannae is more than...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Tillinghast: A Novel
by
Clare Cavenagh
Viking, 06/23/2026
Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
4 Janes: A Novel
by
Marian Yee
Little A, 06/30/2026
Jane Eyre is a missionary's wife.
A bookseller in Vietnam.
A time traveler.
A hero in a modern gothic tale.
What if Jane's story didn't ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Chelsea Girls
by
Catherine Lloyd
Kensington Publishing, 06/30/2026
Post-war London is a city in flux, with burned-out buildings serving as vivid reminders of the past. But beneath those scars is a sense of resurging ...
more
Historical Fiction
Days of Sun and Shadow
by
India Hayford
A John Scognamiglio Book, 06/30/2026
Alabama, 1813: In the midst of the battle and massacre at Fort Mims, a baby is born. It's a portentous beginning for Emilie McCain, who has inherited ...
more
Historical Fiction
Everybody's Perfect
by
Jo Walton
Tor Books, 06/30/2026
The Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a mythical shadow sister to Venice and crossroads of the nine worlds.
When a laborer called Tiry has...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Five
by
César Aira
New Directions Publishing, 06/30/2026
Five, selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by "the Duchamp of Latin America" (Natasha Wimmer), brings together―each an ...
more
Literary Fiction
July Sun: Stories
by
Aamina Ahmad
Riverhead Books, 06/30/2026
In these seven powerful stories, Aamina Ahmad finds a world of pathos in the narrowest circumstances, from the fugitive intimacies of villages where ...
more
Short Stories
Main Characters: A Novel
by
Bobby Palmer
Little Brown & Company, 06/30/2026
When Clara and Seb first cross paths in a London square, it's the start of something exciting. Clara, an aspiring director stuck in an entry-level job...
more
Literary Fiction
Moss'd in Space
by
Rebecca Thorne
Bramble, 06/30/2026
Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia's assessment, it was not "a meteoric sign of stupidity." Sure, the alien starship may ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire
by
Emma Southon
Simon & Schuster, 06/30/2026
When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul he boasted that he killed a million Gauls and enslaved a million more. This is the truth about the Roman empire: ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction
by
Dr. Lixing Sun
Basic Books, 06/30/2026
Let's talk about sex. Not boring, human sex, but the endlessly fascinating, varied, and complex forms of reproduction in the rest of the natural world...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
RED X
by
David Demchuk
Hell's Hundred, 06/30/2026
In 1984, a young gay man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a community of friends and lovers desperate for answers. Instead, they face ...
more
Thrillers
Sex on Murder Island: Luella van Horn Mysteries #2
by
Jo Firestone
Bantam Books, 06/30/2026
Marie Jones has hit rock bottom. Just three months ago, her crime solving alter-ego Luella van Horn cracked the case of a murdered contestant on the ...
more
Mysteries
The Au Pair: A Novel
by
Teddy Wayne
Harper, 06/30/2026
Steven Hammer was once an acclaimed literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to a high-powered woman is crumbling, and the only ...
more
Thrillers
The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
by
Colin Asher
W.W. Norton & Company, 06/30/2026
In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and "outlaws." But in
The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Summer of the Serpent
by
Cecilia Eudave
Soho Press, 06/30/2026
Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Top of the World: A Novel
by
Ethan Joella
Scribner, 06/30/2026
June 1975. Maggie Bishop has just graduated high school, the future hers to embrace—but she's still reeling from the death of her older brother,...
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Literary Fiction
These Immortal Truths: Peaches & Honey #1
by
Rachelle Raeta
Tor Books, 06/30/2026
"Did I not tell you, Anna? Death will not come for you."
Anna is used to hunger and hardship. Ever since the pale shadows on her skin were mistaken...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Thornbird
by
E. Kennedy
Delacorte Press, 06/30/2026
Ten years after her father—the infamous serial killer Gabriel Thorn—was caught, Ryan Shipley is back in Starling, Tennessee, trying to lay...
more
Thrillers
Winners & Liars
by
Aleema Omotoni
HarperCollins Publishers, 06/30/2026
Derin's acceptance into Cambridge University is the end of an era—just not the one she expected.
When she and her ultra-competitive Uni prep ...
more
Mysteries
Debut Author
A Real Animal: A Novel
by
Emeline Atwood
Catapult, 07/07/2026
A Real Animal follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War
by
Anna Thomasson
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
Late summer 1937. Europe is inching toward war. In the South of France a group of friends picnic in a secluded clearing. The women have peeled down ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
American Alt: A True Story of Madness and Friendship in a Fractured Country
by
Chris Lockhart
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/07/2026
On the eve of January 6, 2021, Michael Dodd and his three friends found themselves in a stolen vehicle on the grounds of the Washington State Capitol,...
more
Biography/Memoir
An Infinite Love Story
by
Chanel Cleeton
Berkley Books, 07/07/2026
When Joe Mitchell launches into space, the world is watching. It's 1968, and the country waits with anticipation and excitement for another successful...
more
Romance
Augusta Pine Does Not Exist
by
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Balzer + Bray, 07/07/2026
I was fifteen when I became a murderer.
After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an ultimatum: accept a harsh prison sentence or ...
more
Babylon: The Biography of a Metropolis
by
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
'Babylon' is a name that has a double life: it denotes the great ancient Mesopotamian city with a long and complex history, and it is also a fictive ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Buried Feelings
by
Kit Rosewater
Delacorte Romance, 07/07/2026
Cam was the one who discovered the hunt. He brought it to Ivy like an offering, took her hand as they combed through San Francisco, searching for ...
more
Romance
Coming Out Perfect: #1 A Graphic Novel
by
Richard Mercado
Graphix, 07/07/2026
When Kevin's parents ignore his attempts to come out of the closet, he devises a plan to become more like Raymond, the popular gay kid at his high ...
more
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Country People: A Novel
by
Daniel Mason
Random House, 07/07/2026
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a ...
more
Literary Fiction
Every Version of You: A Novel
by
Natalie Messier
Gallery Books, 07/07/2026
Joey Vasquez's life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she's a Los Angeles lawyer on the cusp of making partner, but while she's a ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt: A Novel
by
Ben Reeves
Avid Reader Press, 07/07/2026
Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, grey town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final ...
more
Literary Fiction
Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
by
Mark B. Smith
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/07/2026
To those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Helpless: A Novel
by
Jessica Knoll
Scribner, 07/07/2026
Now, Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. On the surface, both...
more
Thrillers
Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites
by
Dino J. Martins
Knopf, 07/07/2026
"
May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard" is the oldest sentence ever written using an alphabet. Inscribed onto an ivory comb from ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Hide and Seek: A Novel
by
Soren Sveistrup
Harper, 07/07/2026
Count to one, count to two ...
A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child's counting rhyme.
Count to four, count to five ....more
Thrillers
Just Another Dead Boy
by
Kelly Mccaughrain
Candlewick Press, 07/07/2026
In a world where everyone knows the date they will die, wild-child Regan works at a luxury resort as a "Juliet" for the Romeo & Juliet Service, ...
more
Romance
Man Overboard!: A Novel
by
Kathleen Rooney
Gallery Books, 07/07/2026
Patrick "Kick" Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he's in a real pickle.
Drifting alone in the sea after falling ...
more
Literary Fiction
Marzahn, Mon Amour
by
Katja Oskamp
Peirene Press, 07/07/2026
From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Men in Love: A Novel
by
Irvine Welsh
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
Choose life. Choose love? The
Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in Irvine Welsh's blazing new novel.
It is the late 1980s, the ...
more
Literary Fiction
Miss Bates: Emma Revisited: A Novel
by
Catherine Cliff
Pegasus Books, 07/07/2026
Henrietta Bates, the iconic bore of Austen's Emma, is the opposite of handsome, clever, and rich Emma: she is plain, ill-educated, and impoverished. ...
more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Most Ardently Yours: A Novel
by
Freya Sampson
Sourcebooks Landmark, 07/07/2026
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of many romance novels, must be in want of a book boyfriend."
...
more
Romance
Nightjar: Stories
by
Emily Ruskovich
Random House, 07/07/2026
Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the protagonist of "Victor's Room" begins to doubt...
more
Perverts: Stories
by
Mac Crane
The Dial Press, 07/07/2026
An employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriend's parents for the first time. A self-...
more
Short Stories
Scavenging Beauty: A Memoir in Walks
by
Angelica Glass
Riverhead Books, 07/07/2026
Angelica Glass spent decades as a social worker helping families struggling with poverty, addiction, abuse and neglect. Needing relief from work-...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Some People: A Novel
by
Parini Shroff
Ballantine Books, 07/07/2026
Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan...
more
Literary Fiction
Summer of Love
by
Kerri Maher
Berkley Books, 07/07/2026
1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the counter-culture revolution that flourishes during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Bird Tribe: The Dreambird Chronicles #3
by
Lucinda Roy
Tor Books, 07/07/2026
Yearning is the only compass you need to fly a way home.
Two years after Ji-ji's miraculous flight on her own impossible wings, the Dream of ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Great Wherever: A Novel
by
Shannon Sanders
Henry Holt and Company, 07/07/2026
At thirty-two, Aubrey Lamb is stumbling into adulthood. An underpaid gig worker in Washington, DC, she's grieving the end of a serious relationship ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lure of Wolves and Whispers: The Martyred Isle #1
by
Amanda Connolly
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 07/07/2026
On the mist-shrouded Isle of Eireann, buying magic comes with a price.
But when her beloved older sister is gravely injured, Maeve risks everything...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Man
by
Laura Sims
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/07/2026
The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new ...
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Thrillers
Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State
by
Joseph Ogilvy
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/07/2026
Look west from San Francisco or Monterey, past the surfers and cargo ships. This is the California Current, 1,900 miles of the most productive waters ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
We Will See You Bleed
by
Ron Currie
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/07/2026
A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbor against neighbor, leaving everyone broke and exhausted.
As head of the union...
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Thrillers
Wisdom Corner: A Novel
by
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Ecco, 07/07/2026
Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. But when a legendary figure from...
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Thrillers
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
by
Rachel Aviv
Knopf, 07/07/2026
You Won't Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other (and for themselves). With uncanny depth of perception, ...
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Essays
Across the Widest Sea
by
Jean Cremers
Maverick, 07/14/2026
Abandoned in the middle of the ocean by her parents to learn to fend for herself, Léonie must find dry land. She meets Balthazar, a teenager ...
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Graphic Novels
Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old
by
Lucy Schiller
Flatiron Books, 07/14/2026
Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Air: A Novel
by
Christian Kracht
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 07/14/2026
Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from
Kuki, a prestigious design magazine: ...
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Literary Fiction
All We Have Is Time: A Novel
by
Amy Tordoff
Atria Books, 07/14/2026
1605, London.Beatrix lives a solitary life in the shadows, wandering the city streets looking for ways to forget. Forget that everyone she has ever ...
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Literary Fiction
Astronaut!: A Novel
by
Oana Aristide
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/14/2026
Romania, 1989, the twilight of Ceausescu's dictatorship: A time when every neighbor, every friend, every family member may be an informant for the ...
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Historical Fiction
Bedlam
by
Jennifer Higgie
Verso, 07/14/2026
Jennifer Higgie presents a year in the life of Richard Dadd, infamous inmate of one of England's most notorious sanitariums, London's Bethlem ...
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Historical Fiction
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
by
Pamela Colloff
Knopf, 07/14/2026
For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling ...
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True Crime
Chosen Family: A Novel
by
Madeleine Gray
Mariner Books, 07/14/2026
Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls' high school...
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Literary Fiction
Dominion: The Silk and Iron Trilogy #1
by
Jean Kwok
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/14/2026
In a world divided into four rival Dominions, power is everything—and Rubi Morningtail has almost none. Three years after the Annihilation ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Everything to the Sea: A Novel
by
Alicia Upano
William Morrow, 07/14/2026
This is how the story goes: Jane will fall in love. And then all of this will vanish.
Home for one final summer, Jane is working and saving cash ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Famous Men: A Novel
by
Julie Buntin
Random House, 07/14/2026
The right book at the right time can change your life.
Will Miles is trapped. Trapped in tiny Greening, Michigan, where a toxic high school ...
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Hustle, Baby: A Novel
by
Priya Guns
Doubleday, 07/14/2026
It's hard enough to be a teenager at the turn of the millennium, and especially so for Dilo, who on top of juggling school and caring for her baby-...
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Literary Fiction
I Want You to Be Happy: A Novel
by
Jem Calder
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/14/2026
Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He long ago abandoned his ambition of being a novelist and works ...
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Literary Fiction
It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
by
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books, 07/14/2026
Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound ...
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Lady X: A Novel
by
Molly Fader
Ballantine Books, 07/14/2026
Los Angeles, 2024. After learning that her A-List actor husband sent explicit photos to multiple girls on social media, Margot Cooper runs away from ...
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Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection
by
Samantha Paige Rosen
Beacon Press, 07/14/2026
At age 29, when Samantha Paige Rosen made an unexpected move back home, she was surprised to find how much she loved living with her parents again. ...
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Essays
Men Like Us: A Novel
by
Carson Markland
Algonquin Books, 07/14/2026
The seventh of nine children, he's long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with the same firm hand that ...
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Historical Fiction
Misery's Wife: A Novel
by
Joan Tierney
Flatiron Books, 07/14/2026
Elixane lives in a village ravaged by waves, storms, and the encroaching forest. When she was too young to remember, her elder sisters each picked a ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
People Watching in the Desert: A Novel
by
Cali Adeline
Harper, 07/14/2026
Sonny Magee has spent most of her life alone, finding comfort in quiet solitude and scribbling in the private pages of her notebook. She lost her ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Please Don't Touch the Body: Stories
by
Emily Doyle
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/14/2026
The 11 stories in
Please Don't Touch the Body are at once dry and comic, grounded and surreal as they play deftly with genre and expectation to ...
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Short Stories
Mysteries
The Intrigue
by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Del Rey, 07/14/2026
Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. ...
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Thrillers
The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War, and Betrayal
by
Catherine Ostler
Atria Books, 07/14/2026
Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a wealthy Jewish family's home in the 8th arrondissement, the grandest quarter of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy
by
Lauren Collins
Penguin Press, 07/14/2026
After the Civil War, Reconstruction ushered in an era of political equality and economic opportunity for Black people, and it lasted longer in ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide
by
Eyal Weizman
Penguin Press, 07/14/2026
Eyal Weizman is one of the world's leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict, and the built and natural environment. As director ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife
by
Imogen Willetts
Grove Press, 07/14/2026
There is a specific energy to it. Cafes and shops close their shutters. Darkness descends. "The air begins to tingle," wrote John Dos Passos of ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Armor for Liars
by
S. E. Grove
Simon & Schuster, 07/21/2026
In a world where magic is drawn from the realm of the dead, enchanters—always men—go to great lengths to steal it. Voyaging to the spirit ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Cool Machine: The Harlem Trilogy #3
by
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 07/21/2026
1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained ...
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Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/21/2026
We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and/or under the law. But as robust as ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dooneen
by
Keith Ridgway
New Directions Publishing, 07/21/2026
Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that―there ...
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Give Me Everything You've Got: A Novel
by
Imogen Crimp
Henry Holt and Company, 07/21/2026
In the midst of an unrelenting heat wave, up-and-coming filmmaker Ruby arrives at the summer home of her idol. Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist ...
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Literary Fiction
Henry Tudor Must Die
by
Jillian Laine
Berkley Books, 07/21/2026
Anne Boleyn is going to die, and neither her cleverness nor her witchery can save her. So when her late rival, Catalina de Aragón, miraculously ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown
by
Roberta Kwok
Sourcebooks, 07/21/2026
In
Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Lovecraft's Brood: Nineteen Tales of Cosmic Horror
by
Ellen Datlow
Tachyon Publications, 07/21/2026
A prison guard and a convict have an affair fueled by the hallucinations of fungal spores. Squatters arrive in a weird train station, where they ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Salvage: A Graphic Novel
by
Renée Nault
Forgotten Books, 07/21/2026
Paolo lives in the Flats, a dangerous, water-logged community where families survive by salvaging materials from skyscrapers hidden just beneath the ...
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Graphic Novels
Tenderness: A Novel
by
Rowan Beaird
Flatiron Books, 07/21/2026
On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O'Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment ...
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Literary Fiction
The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory
by
Emily Eakin
Penguin Press, 07/21/2026
When Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French ...
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Biography/Memoir
The New People: A Novel
by
Andrea Uptmor
Little Brown & Company, 07/21/2026
Months after the housing bubble bursts, newlywed Chicagoans Emma and Rachel move into a charming little house in a conservative Indiana college town, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Story Keeper: A Gothic Mystery of Family Secrets Unveiled Across Three Timelines
by
Kelly Rimmer
Graydon House, 07/21/2026
When a curious book,
The Midnight Estate, catches her attention in her late uncle's library, Fiona is plunged into a tale that mirrors her own—a...
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Historical Fiction
The Talking Bone: A Novel
by
Rene Denfeld
Harper, 07/21/2026
Ruby Spencer is known as "the exonerator." Her job as an investigator is to free innocent men from death row, and she's good at what she does. What ...
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Thrillers
Unsayable: A Life in Writing
by
Michael Cunningham
Random House, 07/21/2026
Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what's on the other side.
At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began ...
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Biography/Memoir
Yellow Pine: A Novel
by
Claire Vaye Watkins
Riverhead Books, 07/21/2026
In her homestead deep in the Mojave, Rose has found a way to live "on the other side of the portal," with an intentionality that's brought her hard-...
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Literary Fiction
All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
by
Emilee Hackney
Penguin Books, 07/28/2026
Born and raised deep in the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains, Emilee Hackney knew little beyond the ridgelines and coalfields of southwest ...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Beginning Middle End: A Novel
by
Valeria Luiselli
Knopf, 07/28/2026
Valeria Luiselli's novel opens the morning a mother and her teenage daughter arrive in Sicily, during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic ...
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Evamar
by
Margarita Engle
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/28/2026
Just before she was transformed
into an invisible spirit
my grandmother whispered her last wishes
into my ear:
Sprinkle my ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Fishbone Cinderella: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Lim
Del Rey, 07/28/2026
1940s Hong Kong
When Japanese soldiers invade her hometown, Ha Yut Ying makes an unlikely escape—by turning invisible. But her miraculous ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flickerstate
by
F. A. Davidson
Sourcebooks Fire, 07/28/2026
Norah Sullivan has just discovered she's a navigator: a person who can manipulate probability. The same day Norah's navigation manifests, she and her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Furious Violet: A Novel
by
Sarai Walker
Harper, 07/28/2026
Violet "West" Shelley has unwillingly spent her life in the spotlight as the only daughter of a legendary poet and feminist icon who died tragically ...
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Thrillers
I Made You Up Inside My Head: A Novel
by
Marta Pérez-Carbonell
Riverhead Books, 07/28/2026
On an overnight train from London to Edinburgh, a translator becomes engrossed in the stories of the strangers who share her compartment. One has ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Obsessed
by
Lizzie Buehler
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 07/28/2026
Astrid is obsessed with the Russian American novelist Sofiya Sova, whose life trajectory serendipitously parallels Astrid's own and whose writing ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Red Earth: A Novel
by
Morgana Kretzmann
HarperVia, 07/28/2026
On the lush Brazil-Argentina border, whispers of greed run deep, finally having come to claim the last sanctuary. A hydroelectric dam promises ...
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Literary Fiction
The Winds of Maracaibo: A Novel
by
María Elena Morán
Knopf, 07/28/2026
It was too late, y la ternura no basta—now that she'd tasted the gunpowder, and the gunpowder was bolivariano, revolutionary. And that ...more
Literary Fiction
When Mikan Road Was Ours: A Novel
by
D.K. Furutani
Atria Books, 07/28/2026
Amidst a sweltering Los Angeles heat wave, Murano, a reclusive high school English teacher, is muddling through life. Reeling from his father's sudden...
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Historical Fiction
You Only Live Twice
by
Autumn Allen
Kokila, 07/28/2026
Barely one week into senior year of high school, Boston native Zakiyyah is making her 2012-2013 Get Free Plan.
Step one: quit high school. (PSA: ...
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Inspiration from 9,000 Miles Away: An Improbable Gift, a Resilient Cuisine, and Life Lessons Learned
by
Meena Cheng
Impact 9000 LLC, 07/30/2026
For me, it arrived at 5 a.m. on a winter morning, crossing oceans and time from 9,000 miles away to find me — in a voice I had never heard, ...
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Biography/Memoir
Appraisals: A Novel
by
Claire Boyles
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/04/2026
Maggie Brandt, a third-generation farmer, is cultivating a few acres of organic vegetables in rural Colorado—a place where industrial farming ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Amateur: A Novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 08/04/2026
1978: It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are flirting with ninety when Mira Winston, eighteen years old, drives a golf ball from her ...
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The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
by
Chris Young
Little Brown & Company, 08/04/2026
If our world were more just, Chris Young would have been crossing a stage at college graduation at the age of 22. Instead, he was marched into a ...
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Biography/Memoir
Time Travel for Beginners
by
Jaclyn Moriarty
Berkley Books, 08/04/2026
On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. Inside, you'll be welcomed by the smell...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dreamland
by
Olivie Blake
Tor Books, 08/11/2026
The headlines are calling it the "summer of exsanguination" in LA―girls are being murdered, the Santa Ana winds are blowing a strange energy ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sunrise: A Novel
by
Téa Obreht
Random House, 08/11/2026
In 2024, Nina's small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Her boyfriend Ben, who was flying it, is nowhere to be found. Lost ...
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Literary Fiction
The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time?and How to Fix It
by
Annie Lowrey
Ecco, 08/25/2026
Everyone knows that dealing with government bureaucracy can be a nightmare. Doing your taxes is bad enough, but for those applying for financial aid, ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
They Say a Girl Died Here: A Novel
by
Sarah Pinborough
Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, 08/25/2026
Anna Maybourne never imagined herself living in a place like Harper's Creek, a nowhere town full of dusty farmland plagued by drought. It's supposed ...
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Thrillers
Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
by
Abdelrahman ElGendy
Hogarth Books, 09/01/2026
In 2013, two years after the January 25 revolution, seventeen-year-old Abdelrahman ElGendy was a budding student activist in Cairo. Hope for a free ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Pirate Queen
by
Ariel Lawhon
Doubleday, 09/08/2026
Grace O'Malley was born to be a sea captain. But despite her natural skill on the water, Grace learns early that her dreams of a life at the helm are ...
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Literary Fiction
Reset
by
Kevin Charles
1A - No Publicist Assigned, 09/14/2026
Tom and Elena Miller built a beautiful life over nearly three decades of marriage. But as Tom approaches his fiftieth birthday, the crushing weight of...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Exit Party: A Novel
by
Emily St. John Mandel
Knopf, 09/15/2026
Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, ...
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Literary Fiction
American Hagwon
by
Min Jin Lee
Cardinal, 09/29/2026
In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the ...
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Literary Fiction
Lady of Uncanny Charms (Whimbrel House)
by
Charlie N. Holmberg
47North, 09/29/2026
Owein arrives in England to marry Lady Cora of Leiningen, his dearest friend and confidante he's known mostly through letters. However, Queen Victoria...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Sweet Pea
by
Kit de Waal
St. Martin's Griffin, 11/03/2026
When Paulette arrived on English shores as a young girl, she left behind a grandmother in St. Kitts who called her "Sweet Pea," taught her to cook, ...
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Literary Fiction
Notes on Postcards: A Memoir
by
Jennifer Croft
Catapult, 11/10/2026
Postcards have accompanied Jennifer Croft throughout her life, providing comfort, beauty, humor, and inspiration. When she left her hometown for the ...
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Biography/Memoir
Revenge Plot
by
Stephanie Wrobel
Berkley Books, 11/10/2026
All Arnie Tenderton wants this Christmas—all he's ever wanted—is to be a published author. For decades he has toiled over one novel after ...
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Literary Fiction
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon: A Modern Biography
by
Martha Saxton
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/24/2026
The Enlightenment-era, six-volume epic
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is to history what
In Search of Lost Time is to fiction...
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Biography/Memoir
