Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
by
Grace L. Williams
Little A, 01/01/2025
In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in the boys' club of banking and finance, women were still infantilized―no credit...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
What the Light Touches: A Novel
by
Xavier Bosch
AmazonCrossing, 01/01/2025
Seventeen-year-old Margaux doesn't realize one photo could change the course of her life. But in German-occupied Paris, nothing makes sense anymore. ...
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Historical Fiction
99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
by
Adam Chandler
Pantheon Books, 01/07/2025
"
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison's most famous quote, has been drilled ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Traitorous Heart
by
Erin Cotter
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 01/07/2025
Paris, 1572. Seventeen-year-old Jacqueline "Jac" d'Argenson-Aunis is lady-in-waiting to her best friend and former lover, the French Princess ...
more
Historical Fiction
After Life
by
Gayle Forman
Quill Tree Books, 01/07/2025
Because Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle she's inexplicably riding now.
This return doesn't only impact ...
more
All the Water in the World: A Novel
by
Eiren Caffall
St. Martin's Press, 01/07/2025
All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Among Serpents: Above the Black #2
by
Marc J Gregson
Peachtree Teen, 01/07/2025
It takes guts to rise to the top of Meritocracy. It'll take sheer ruthlessness to stay there. As militants and monsters lay waste to the Skylands, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Another Man in the Street: A Novel
by
Caryl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/07/2025
In London's swinging sixties, Victor Johnson, a young immigrant from the Caribbean, arrives in Britain with dreams of becoming a journalist in the "...
more
Literary Fiction
Baltic Souls: Fate in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
by
Jan Brokken
Scribe US, 01/07/2025
A remarkable number of talented people have come from this relatively small, sparsely populated area, many of them Jewish in origin. Brokken looks at ...
more
Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King
by
Preston Lauterbach
Hachette Books, 01/07/2025
After Baz Luhrmann's movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley's ...
more
Breath of the Dragon: Breathmarked #1
by
Shannon Lee, Fonda Lee
Wednesday Books, 01/07/2025
Sixteen-year-old Jun dreams of proving his worth as a warrior in the elite Guardian's Tournament, held every six years to entrust the magical Scroll ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island
by
David Campbell
New York University Press, 01/07/2025
While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainees awaiting the settlement of their cases, a smaller population have already been convicted ...
more
Darkmotherland
by
Samrat Upadhyay
Soho Press, 01/07/2025
In
Darkmotherland, Nepali writer Samrat Upadhyay has created a novel of infinite embrace—filled with lovers and widows, dictators and dissidents...
more
Homeseeking
by
Karissa Chen
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/07/2025
A single choice can define an entire life.
Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
How to Sleep at Night: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Harris
William Morrow, 01/07/2025
Meet Ethan and Gabe. A devoted couple for years, they have successful careers, an adorable daughter, and a house in the New Jersey suburbs. Sure, they...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
I'll Come to You
by
Rebecca Kauffman
Counterpoint Press, 01/07/2025
With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both ...
more
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
by
Irvin Weathersby Jr.
Viking, 01/07/2025
Amid the ongoing reckoning over America's history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mothers and Sons: A Novel
by
Adam Haslett
Little Brown & Company, 01/07/2025
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to ...
more
Mystery Royale
by
Kaitlyn Cavalancia
Disney-Hyperion, 01/07/2025
The only thing sixteen-year-old Mullory Prudence has left of her mom is a warning: "Run if the strange finds you." But mysterious warnings don't pay ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Playworld: A Novel
by
Adam Ross
Knopf, 01/07/2025
"In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and ...more
Rosarita
by
Anita Desai
Scribner, 01/07/2025
Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardin de San Miguel, Mexico, basking in the park's lush beauty, when she ...
more
Literary Fiction
Sweet Fury
by
Sash Bischoff
Simon & Schuster, 01/07/2025
Lila Crayne is America's sweetheart: she's generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic. She and her fiancé, visionary filmmaker Kurt Royall, have ...
more
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting
by
Natalie C. Parker
Candlewick Press, 01/07/2025
Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where ...
more
The Capital of Dreams: A Novel
by
Heather O'Neill
Harper, 01/07/2025
Sofia Bottom lives in Elysia, a small country forgotten by Europe. But inside its borders, the old myths of trees that come alive and faeries who live...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
by
Marlene L. Daut
Knopf, 01/07/2025
Slave, revolutionary, king, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island ...
more
The Granddaughter: A Novel
by
Bernhard Schlink
HarperVia, 01/07/2025
It is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany to join him: ...
more
The Heart of Winter: A Novel
by
Jonathan Evison
Dutton, 01/07/2025
Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into ...
more
The Last Bookstore on Earth
by
Lily Braun-Arnold
Delacorte Press, 01/07/2025
The world is about to end. Again.
Ever since the first Storm wreaked havoc on civilization as we know it, seventeen-year-old Liz Flannery has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Lotus Shoes: A Novel
by
Jane Yang
Park Row, 01/07/2025
1800s China. Tightly bound feet, or "golden lilies," are the mark of an honorable woman, eclipsing beauty, a rich dowry and even bloodline in the ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Naming of the Birds
by
Paraic O'Donnell
Tin House Books, 01/07/2025
Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown ...
more
Mysteries
The Note: A Novel
by
Alafair Burke
Knopf, 01/07/2025
It was meant to be a harmless prank.
Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower....
more
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
by
Kate Winkler Dawson
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/07/2025
On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret ...
more
The Stolen Queen: A Novel
by
Fiona Davis
Dutton, 01/07/2025
Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, she leaps at...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Things We Didn't Know
by
Elba Iris Pérez
Gallery Books, 01/07/2025
Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Three Lives of Cate Kay: A Novel
by
Kate Fagan
Atria Books, 01/07/2025
Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she's one of the most ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf
by
Isa Arsén
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/07/2025
Up-and-coming stage actress Margaret Shoard has just taken a bow as Lady Macbeth, the role she has always believed was destined for her. At home, she ...
more
Historical Fiction
This Is the Year
by
Gloria Muñoz
Holiday House, 01/07/2025
"In outer space, no one will know me as the girl with the dead sister."
Seventeen-year-old self-proclaimed Goth and aspiring writer Julieta ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Who Owns the Moon?: And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space
by
Cynthia Levinson
Margaret Quinlin Books, 01/07/2025
For teens who are space fans, this book is loaded with fascinating facts, great stories, and new ways of thinking about the challenges of space. It ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
by
Kari Ferrell
St. Martin's Press, 01/07/2025
Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at a young age by a Mormon family in Utah, Kari struggled with ...
more
A Calamity of Noble Houses
by
Amira Ghenim
Europa Editions, 01/14/2025
Tunisia, 1930s. Against the backdrop of a country in turmoil, in search of its identity, the lives and destinies of the members of two important upper...
more
Historical Fiction
A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage: A Novel
by
Asia Mackay
Bantam Books, 01/14/2025
I wasn't smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it. Literally.
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing...
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Thrillers
Aflame: Learning from Silence
by
Pico Iyer
Riverhead Books, 01/14/2025
Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three decades to a small Benedictine hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur, ...
more
Biography/Memoir
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
by
Kyle Paoletta
Pantheon Books, 01/14/2025
Albuquerque. Phoenix. Tucson. El Paso. Las Vegas. Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Andromeda: A Novel
by
Therese Bohman
Other Press, 01/14/2025
The publishing house is anchored like a ship along Stockholm's main street, a large, bright building with an impressive rooftop terrace. The facade is...
more
Babylonia: A Novel
by
Costanza Casati
Sourcebooks Landmark, 01/14/2025
Babylonia across the centuries has become the embodiment of lust, excess, and dissolute power that ruled Ancient Assyria. In this world you had to ...
more
Historical Fiction
Beautiful Ugly: A Novel
by
Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 01/14/2025
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby...
more
Thrillers
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
by
Brooke Shields
Flatiron Books, 01/14/2025
Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
by
Caroline Eden
Bloomsbury Publishing, 01/14/2025
"With its union of practicality and magic," Caroline Eden understands a kitchen as a portal, "offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create ways ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Travel & Adventure
Confessions: A Novel
by
Catherine Airey
Mariner Books, 01/14/2025
New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's father is there, the poster she ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Death of the Author: A Novel
by
Nnedi Okorafor
William Morrow, 01/14/2025
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dirtbag Queen
by
Andy Corren
Grand Central Publishing, 01/14/2025
So began Andy Corren's unforgettable obituary for his mother, Renay Mandel Corren, a tribute that went on to touch the hearts of millions around the ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Dreamover
by
Dani Diaz
Top Shelf Productions, 01/14/2025
Amber's a headstrong goofball with a temper. Nico's a shy, self-conscious emo boy. But they've been best friends since third grade, and she can't hide...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Everything Is Poison
by
Joy McCullough
Dutton for Young Readers, 01/14/2025
Early Seventeenth-Century Rome
For as long as she can remember, Carmela Tofana has desperately wanted one thing: to be a part of La Tofana's, her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Going Home: A Novel
by
Tom Lamont
Knopf, 01/14/2025
Téo Erskine, now in his thirties, has moved on from childish things: He has a good job, a slick apartment in London, and when he heads back to ...
more
Good Girl: A Novel
by
Aria Aber
Hogarth Books, 01/14/2025
In Berlin's artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies
by
Manuel Betancourt
Catapult, 01/14/2025
"Hello stranger." As an opening line, you really can't ask for better.
Hello Stranger is a book about chance encounters—at a bar, through ...
more
Honeysuckle and Bone
by
Trisha Tobias
Zando, 01/14/2025
Carina Marshall is looking to reinvent herself, and what better place to do it than Jamaica, her mother's alluring homeland where she conveniently has...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
In Our Midst
by
Nancy Jensen
Dzanc Books, 01/14/2025
Nina and Otto Aust, along with their teenage sons, feel the foundation of their American lives crumbling when, in the middle of the annual St. Nikolas...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
by
Michael Albertus
Basic Books, 01/14/2025
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In
Land Power...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Darling Boy: A Novel
by
John Dufresne
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/14/2025
Aided by his terminally ill girlfriend and the colorful inhabitants of a local motel―including a doomsday prepper, an ex-nun, a pair of blind ...
more
Literary Fiction
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
by
Matthew Pearl
Harper, 01/14/2025
On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship's captain Frederick, his wife ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
by
Michelle Adams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/14/2025
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of
Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Forger's Requiem
by
Bradford Morrow
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/14/2025
Literary forger Henry Slader, assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, awakens in a shallow grave, suffocating in dirt. Concussed ...
more
Thrillers
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy - and Why It Failed
by
Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
Flatiron Books, 01/14/2025
Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is often ranked among Americans' most well-liked presidents. Yet what most Americans don't ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Kennedy Girl: A Novel
by
Julia Bryan Thomas
Sourcebooks, 01/14/2025
1960. New York, Paris and Milan fashion culture is starting to make an impression on the average American woman. When a mysterious bakery customer ...
more
Historical Fiction
The Last Room on the Left
by
Leah Konen
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/14/2025
It's the perfect getaway to finish her book and start fresh.
But as she hunkers down in a blizzard, she spots something through the window: a pale ...
more
The Last Word: A Novel
by
Elly Griffiths
Mariner Books, 01/14/2025
Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he's the oldest detective in ...
more
Mysteries
The Queen's Spade
by
Sarah Raughley
HarperCollins Publishers, 01/14/2025
A young lady can take only so many injuries before humiliation and insult forge a vow of revenge ...
The year is 1862 and murderous desires are ...
more
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey: A Novel
by
Astrid Dahl
Simon & Schuster, 01/14/2025
Meet the Garden State Goddesses, the cast of Huzzah's third most popular show:
"I may play for both teams, but when it comes to being real, I ...
more
Thrillers
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
by
Pagan Kennedy
Vintage, 01/14/2025
In 1972, Martha "Marty" Goddard volunteered at a crisis hotline, counseling girls who had been molested by their fathers, their teachers, their uncles...
more
the space between men
by
Mia S. Willis
Penguin Books, 01/14/2025
These piercing, surprising poems look to familial history, rituals of faith, and the natural world to explore how the intersecting cultures of ...
more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
The Suicides
by
Antonio Di Benedetto
New York Review Books, 01/14/2025
A reporter's boss assigns him to cover three unconnected suicides. The news agency wants to syndicate the story to color magazines, "For the blood, so...
more
Mysteries
The Swans of Harlem (Adapted for Young Adults): Five Black Ballerinas, a Legacy of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
by
Karen Valby
Delacorte Press, 01/14/2025
At the peak of the civil rights movement, Lydia Abarca was the first ballerina in a Black ballet company to grace the cover of
Dance magazine. ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by
Stephen Witt
Viking, 01/14/2025
In June of 2024, spurred by the frenzy of investment following the launch of ChatGPT, and thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny's restaurant,...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
This Love: A Novel
by
Lotte Jeffs
Harper Perennial, 01/14/2025
When Mae and Ari meet outside a crowded gay bar during their final year of university, their connection is instant, sparking a lifetime friendship. ...
more
Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between
by
L.M. Elliott
Algonquin Young Readers, 01/14/2025
Patty Appleton is making history. As one of the Senate's first female Congressional Pages, she's not only paving the way for other politically minded ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century
by
Bianca Mabute-Louie
Harper, 01/14/2025
In this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca Mabute-Louie ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Vantage Point: A Novel
by
Sara Sligar
MCD, 01/14/2025
The old-money Wieland family has it all―wealth, status, power. They're also famously cursed.
Clara and her brother, Teddy, grew up on a ...
more
We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel
by
Erika Swyler
Atria Books, 01/14/2025
The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made
by
Eric Dezenhall
Harper, 01/14/2025
Gangsters and presidents have long captured the American imagination, but how much does the underworld actually affect presidential power? How deep ...
more
True Crime
Thrillers
A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel
by
Cynthia Weiner
Crown, 01/21/2025
It was the summer of 1986, when the girl was found dead in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum—half-naked, legs splayed, arms flung over...more
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir
by
Vidyan Ravinthiran
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/21/2025
Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Boudicca: A Novel
by
P. C. Cast
William Morrow, 01/21/2025
In Roman-occupied Britain, the Iceni tribe crowns an extraordinary new queen. Tall and flame-haired, Boudicca is devoted to Andraste, the Iceni's ...
more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by
Tao Leigh Goffe
Doubleday, 01/21/2025
In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the ...
more
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Finding Normal
by
Jen Doktorski
Fitzroy Books, 01/21/2025
Right after she escapes Children' s Hospital in Harrisburg, where she' s being treated for anorexia. Enter Lucas Polizzi, a high school wrestler with ...
more
Literary Fiction
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
by
Bonny Reichert
Ballantine Books, 01/21/2025
When you're raised by someone who once survived on potato peels and coffee grounds, you develop a pretty healthy respect for food.
Bonny Reichert...
more
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
by
Julian Borger
Other Press, 01/21/2025
In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of ...
more
Biography/Memoir
Let's Call Her Barbie
by
Renée Rosen
Berkley Books, 01/21/2025
When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other,
she knows what she's ...
more
Historical Fiction
Mask of the Deer Woman
by
Laurie L. Dove
Berkley Books, 01/21/2025
At rock bottom following her daughter's death, ex–Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr's father never ...
more
Thrillers
Mona Acts Out: A Novel
by
Mischa Berlinski
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 01/21/2025
Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of ...
more
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
by
Cheryl L. Neely
Beacon Press, 01/21/2025
When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as "N.H.I." – "No Humans Involved." ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Only If You're Lucky: A Novel
by
Stacy Willingham
Minotaur Books, 01/21/2025
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a...
more
Thrillers
Power of Persuasion
by
Stacey Abrams
Berkley Books, 01/21/2025
A.J. Grayson has come a long way from adopted orphan to fast-rising executive at a cutting-edge technology firm. Now an anti-terrorist agency wants to...
more
Romance
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union
by
Richard Carwardine
Knopf, 01/21/2025
How did slavery figure in God's plan? Was it the providential role of government to abolish this sin and build a righteous nation? Or did such a ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Save Me, Stranger: Stories
by
Erika Krouse
Flatiron Books, 01/21/2025
Erika Krouse's debut memoir,
Tell Me Everything, was hailed by the
New York Times Book Review as "lyrical, jarring, propulsive," and the
Washington ...more
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
by
Mary Frances Berry
Beacon Press, 01/21/2025
While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black ...
more
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Something Rotten: A Novel
by
Andrew Lipstein
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/21/2025
Cecilie is a fed-up
New York Times reporter. Her husband, Reuben, is a disgraced former NPR host and grudging stay-at-home dad. Neither can wait to ...
more
Literary Fiction
Song of a Blackbird
by
Maria van Lieshout
First Second, 01/21/2025
In the present day, teenage Annick is desperate to find a bone marrow donor that could save the life of her grandmother, Johanna. She turns to her ...
more
Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays
by
Thomas Dai
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/21/2025
Thomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his ...
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Essays
Debut Author
The New Internationals
by
David Wright Falade
Atlantic Monthly Press, 01/21/2025
Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and...
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Historical Fiction
The White Peril: A Family Memoir
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Omo Moses
Beacon Press, 01/21/2025
In
The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his ...
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Biography/Memoir
Those Fatal Flowers: A Novel
by
Shannon Ives
Dell, 01/21/2025
Before, Scopuli. It has been centuries since Thelia made the mistake that cost her the woman she loved—Proserpina, the goddess of spring. As the...
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Historical Fiction
Debut Author
To Save the Man
by
John Sayles
Melville House, 01/21/2025
In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
We Do Not Part: A Novel
by
Han Kang
Hogarth Books, 01/21/2025
One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at a hospital in Seoul. Inseon has injured herself in an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Where the Heart Should Be
by
Sarah Crossan
Greenwillow Books, 01/21/2025
Ireland is starving, and a poor Irish scullery maid falls in love with the British heir to the land. Can their romance stay hidden during the ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Beast of the North Woods: A Monster Hunter Mystery
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Annelise Ryan
Berkley Books, 01/28/2025
An ice fisherman is savagely mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and an eyewitness claims the man was attacked by a hodag. There's just one ...
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Mysteries
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Think They Love You: A Novel
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Julian Winters
St. Martin's Griffin, 01/28/2025
When Denzel "Denz" Carter's workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will ...
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Romance
Pretend We're Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the '90s
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Tanya Pearson
Hachette Books, 01/28/2025
In 2018, during an interview with journalist Tanya Pearson, Shirley Manson lamented: "It's a blanket fact that after September 11th, ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The English Problem: A Novel
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Beena Kamlani
Crown, 01/28/2025
Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India. But he is no ordinary young man. Shiv has been personally chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to come to...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Scorpion Queen: Limited Sprayed Edge Edition
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Mina Fears
Flatiron Books, 01/28/2025
Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie's life was ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
