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...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. ...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Historical Fiction
