Only Way Out: A Novel
by
Tod Goldberg
Thomas & Mercer, 12/01/2025
Failed lawyer Robert Green has such a good plan: Crack three hundred safe-deposit boxes and sail off to South America with his brilliant, morally ...
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Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta
by
Thomas Aiello
University of Nebraska Press, 12/01/2025
With Ali's career still in doubt, he found new support in shifting public opinion about the war and in Atlanta, a city still governed by white ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Snake-Eater
by
T. Kingfisher
47North, 12/01/2025
With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt's house in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Night Watcher: Callie Munro Thrillers #1
by
Tariq Ashkanani
Thomas & Mercer, 12/01/2025
As private investigators go, Callie Munro is tougher than most. She's had to be. Abandoned as a baby and raised by a succession of strangers, she ...
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Thrillers
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
by
Elizabeth McCracken
Ecco, 12/02/2025
Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake ...
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Before I Forget: A Novel
by
Tory Henwood Hoen
St. Martin's Press, 12/02/2025
Call it inertia. Call it a quarter-life crisis. Whatever you call it, Cricket Campbell is stuck. Despite working at a zeitgeisty wellness company, the...
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Canticle: A Novel
by
Janet Rich Edwards
Spiegel & Grau, 12/02/2025
Aleys is sixteen years old and unusual: stubborn, bright, and prone to religious visions. She and her only friend, Finn, a young scholar, have been ...
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Historical Fiction
Cells: The Illustrated Story of Life
by
Christian Sardet
The Experiment, 12/02/2025
In the fifteenth century, as astronomers charted the skies and explorers mapped the globe, the nature of life itself remained a mystery. It wasn't ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
by
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/02/2025
In the 1720s, the West African chief Tomba was abducted for organizing the local resistance against slave raiders and imprisoned on a British ship, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America
by
Trent Preszler
Algonquin Books, 12/02/2025
Every December, homes, offices, and town squares around the world are adorned with lavishly decorated evergreens to ring in the holiday season. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
by
Hwang Bo-reum
Bloomsbury Publishing, 12/02/2025
Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?
Rarely do we ask these ...
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Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
by
Neil Shea
Ecco, 12/02/2025
As warming reshapes our planet, the Arctic—a region that once seemed unchangeable, beyond the reach of modern problems—is quickly coming ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Galapagos: A Novel
by
Fátima Vélez
Astra House, 12/02/2025
Lorenzo is a painter who doesn't paint. He spends his days watching Jeanne Moreau films, luxuriating in his partner Juan B's bed, and swapping letters...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law
by
Terese Svoboda
OR Books, 12/02/2025
In a time like our own of intense propaganda and manipulation, the only WWII female correspondent who covered both theaters of war, Pat Hartwell ...
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House of Day, House of Night: A Novel
by
Olga Tokarczuk
Riverhead Books, 12/02/2025
When the narrator of
House of Day, House of Night arrives with her husband in a village in remote southwest Poland, she knows no one. Before long, ...
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
by
Samuel Miller McDonald
St. Martin's Press, 12/02/2025
Progress is power. Narratives of progress, the stories we tell about whether a society is moving in the right or the wrong direction, are immensely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses (2026)
by
Bill Henderson
Pushcart Press, 12/02/2025
The annual international gathering of the best Fiction, Poetry, Essays and Memoirs from small independent literary presses, including more than 60 ...
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Television: A Novel
by
Lauren Rothery
Ecco, 12/02/2025
An aging, A-list movie star lotteries off the entirety of his mega-million blockbuster salary to a member of the general viewing public before taking ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Aquatics
by
Osvalde Lewat
Coffee House Press, 12/02/2025
In the fictional African country of Zambuena, Katmé Abbia enjoys a life of privilege and influence married to Tashun, the powerful prefect of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Book of Luke: A Novel
by
Lovell Holder
Grand Central Publishing, 12/02/2025
Following the car accident that ended his football career and left his body scarred, 22-year-old Luke Griffin joins the cast of
Endeavor, a new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Book of Women's Friendship
by
Rachel Cooke
W.W. Norton & Company, 12/02/2025
As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel
Housekeeping, "having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house." Bringing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Day I Lost You: A Novel
by
Ruth Mancini
Harper, 12/02/2025
"I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen."
All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She's suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she...
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The Dream of the Jaguar: A Novel
by
Miguel Bonnefoy
Other Press, 12/02/2025
When a mute beggar from Maracaibo, Venezuela, takes in a newborn on the steps of a church, she has no idea of the extraordinary destiny that awaits ...
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Historical Fiction
The Forgotten Book Club
by
Kate Storey
HarperCollins Publishers, 12/02/2025
For three decades, Grace supported her husband Frank's passion for books, even though her own love for literature paled in comparison. Since his ...
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Literary Fiction
The Gallagher Place: A Novel
by
Julie Doar
Zibby Books, 12/02/2025
When Marlowe Fisher, an illustrator living in New York City, returns to her family's bewitching Hudson Valley home for the holidays, she discovers a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Heir Apparent: Reese's Book Club Pick
by
Rebecca Armitage
Cardinal, 12/02/2025
It's New Year's Day in Australia and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second year of her medical ...
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Romance
Debut Author
The Italian Secret: A Novel
by
Tara Moss
Dutton, 12/02/2025
Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground tunnels, a woman takes shelter from a wartime air raid and prays her husband will return ...
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The Jaguar's Roar: A Novel
by
Micheliny Verunschk
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 12/02/2025
In 1817, explorers Spix and Martius returned from their three-year voyage in Brazil with not only an extensive account of their journey, but also with...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Living and the Dead: A Novel About a Crime
by
Christoffer Carlsson
Hogarth Books, 12/02/2025
Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own.
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small ...
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The Six Loves of James I
by
Mr. Gareth Russell
Atria Books, 12/02/2025
From the assassination of his father to the explosive political and personal intrigues of his reign, this fresh biography reveals as never before the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Watch Us Fall: A Novel
by
Christina Kovac
Simon & Schuster, 12/02/2025
But when Addie, the group's queen bee, discovers that her ex-boyfriend Josh has gone missing, the Sweeties' worlds are turned upside down. In the days...
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A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
by
Adam Morgan
One Signal, 12/09/2025
Already under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde into a world not ready for it, Margaret C. Anderson's cutting-edge magazine
The Little ...more
Cape Fever: A Novel
by
Nadia Davids
Simon & Schuster, 12/09/2025
I come highly recommended to Mrs. Hattingh through sentences I tell her I cannot read.
The year is 1920, in a small, unnamed city in a colonial ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Dark Sisters: A Novel
by
Kristi DeMeester
St. Martin's Press, 12/09/2025
Anne Bolton, a healer facing persecution for witchcraft, bargains with a dark entity for protection―but the fire she unleashes will reverberate ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Far from the A-List: A Novel
by
Stephanie Burns
MIRA, 12/09/2025
Former child star Michaela Turner is ready for her next big role—she just doesn't know what it is yet. As someone whose days were once filled ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia
by
Maria Alyokhina
Beacon Press, 12/09/2025
Picking up where
Riot Days left off, Maria (Masha) Alyokhina takes us through her activist experiences between 2014 to 2022. In vivid, diary-like ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
by
Alex Wellerstein
Harper, 12/09/2025
In the eight decades since the United States deployed the most destructive weapon ever used, conventional wisdom has held that American leaders were ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Quiet Mother: A Detective Konrad Novel
by
Arnaldur Indridason
Minotaur Books, 12/09/2025
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad's phone number. ...
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Three Stories of Forgetting
by
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
FSG Originals, 12/09/2025
The discrete yet overlapping tales in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's
Three Stories of Forgetting explore the lives of three men―perhaps already ...
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The Red Scare Murders
by
Con Lehane
Soho Crime, 12/16/2025
July 1950: Mick Mulligan has just hung out his shingle as a private investigator in New York's sweaty Hell's Kitchen. A former Hollywood cartoonist ...
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Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
by
Martha Ackmann
St. Martin's Press, 12/30/2025
In
Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton, Martha Ackmann chronicles the life of an American Original. From her impoverished ...
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Biography/Memoir
Song of Ancient Lovers: A Novel
by
Laura Restrepo
HarperVia, 12/30/2025
Retelling the mythical love story between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in the refugee camps of the present day,
Song of Ancient Lovers is a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Rest of Our Lives
by
Benjamin Markovits
Summit Books, 12/30/2025
When Tom Layward's wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child left the nest. Now, while driving his ...
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Literary Fiction
