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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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...
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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—...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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" ...
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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.
...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 "...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
