The Night Guests: A Novel
by
Marina Scott
Lake Union Publishing, 11/01/2025
Once a prominent fixture in Omaha's high society, Nina Wilson is now drowning in debt and disgrace following the untimely death of her father. Her ...
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Thrillers
What She Saw
by
Mary Burton
Montlake, 11/01/2025
Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come to a small mountain town in Virginia to solve a mystery.
Thirty years ago, her mother was one of four ...
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Thrillers
A Fate So Cold: A Fate So Cold #1
by
Amanda Foody, C.L. Herman
Tor Teen, 11/04/2025
For most of the year, Summer reigns peacefully over Alderland. Then, for six brutal weeks, Winter rages, obliterating towns and wreaking casualties. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Time Traveler's History of Tomorrow
by
Kendall Kulper
Holiday House, 11/04/2025
Genevieve Newhouse and Ash Hargreaves weren't supposed to meet like this. Unless it was always meant to be ...
Gen is a fastidious science ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Bitter Honey: A Novel
by
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
William Morrow, 11/04/2025
1978: A scholarship draws Nancy from Gambia's warmth into Stockholm's frigid winter. When her friendship with charismatic scholar Lars ...
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Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
by
Char Adams
Tiny Reparations, 11/04/2025
Black-Owned celebrates small businesses and their role in community building—and in liberation. Journalist Char Adams reports on how Black ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
by
Patti Smith
Random House, 11/04/2025
God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post–World War II ...
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Biography/Memoir
Cursed Daughters: A Novel
by
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Doubleday, 11/04/2025
When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child...
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False War: A Novel
by
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Graywolf Press, 11/04/2025
The characters in
False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's ...
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Flat Earth: A Novel
by
Anika Jade Levy
Catapult, 11/04/2025
Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance
by
Eliza Dumais
831 Stories, 11/04/2025
Alice is bored—romantically, professionally, creatively. So when her boss, a prominent wine importer, suggests she work a grape harvest in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Helm: A Novel
by
Sarah Hall
Mariner Books, 11/04/2025
Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and awe, part-elemental god, part-aerial demon blasting through the sublime ...
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Her One Regret
by
Donna Freitas
Soho Crime, 11/04/2025
When successful Rhode Island real estate agent Lucy Mendoza vanishes, leaving her baby behind in a grocery store parking lot, the news quickly makes ...
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Last Call at the Savoy
by
Brisa Carleton
Grand Central Publishing, 11/04/2025
Six years ago, Cinnamon Scott was a young writer on the rise in New York City. But since the sudden loss of her parents, she's been stuck in place, ...
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Historical Fiction
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
Crown, 11/04/2025
"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth,"
Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Lightbreakers: A Novel
by
Aja Gabel
Riverhead Books, 11/04/2025
In the beginning, there was happiness. Maya, an artist obsessed with the nature of beauty, and Noah, a quantum physicist preoccupied by the mysteries ...
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Like Family: A Novel
by
Erin O. White
The Dial Press, 11/04/2025
It was too much to ask. But sometimes too much is what we ask of the people we love most.
Radclyffe, New York, is an idyllic upstate town, nestled ...
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Literary Fiction
Only Son
by
Kevin Moffett
McSweeney's Books, 11/04/2025
His PE teacher says he runs like a pregnant ostrich. His mother takes out a personal ad. Everyone is trying to teach him a lesson but he is, it seems,...
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Literary Fiction
Other People's Fun: A Novel
by
Harriet Lane
Little Brown & Company, 11/04/2025
"I look. I can't stop looking. That's the deal, isn't it? We all know that's how it works. If someone wants to be seen—and oh, how they want to ...more
Otherwise Engaged: A Novel
by
Susan Mallery
MIRA, 11/04/2025
When Shannon gets engaged, her beloved mom, Cindy, is the first person she wants to tell—and the last. Cindy's engaged, too, and has already ...
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Literary Fiction
Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
by
Darrin Lunde
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/04/2025
From 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Queen Esther
by
John Irving
Simon & Schuster, 11/04/2025
Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. ...
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Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
by
Ashley D. Farmer
Pantheon Books, 11/04/2025
In the world of Black radical politics, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life, Queen Mother Moore ...
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Self Portrait
by
Ludwig Volbeda
Levine Querido, 11/04/2025
Yet Jip's thoughts keep wandering. To the new boy in class, to beetles and fireflies, to twilight dreaming, to the party next Friday, and especially ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Shade is a place
by
MaKshya Tolbert
Penguin Books, 11/04/2025
Shade is a place meanders east–west along Charlottesville's Downtown Mall, seeking "a Black sense of place" at the pace of stressed shade and ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Debut Author
That's Not How It Happened: A Novel
by
Craig Thomas
Hanover Square Press, 11/04/2025
Paige didn't set out to be a stay-at-home mom, but when her husband's screenwriting career took off right before they had a son with Down syndrome, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by
Tim Wu
Knopf, 11/04/2025
Our world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment, but also stand as some of the most effective...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dinner Party: A Novel
by
Viola van de Sandt
Little Brown & Company, 11/04/2025
Franca left the Netherlands behind to start her new life in England with Andrew. Andrew, whose parents lived in South Kensington but had a flat their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
by
Salman Rushdie
Random House, 11/04/2025
Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life's final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work&...
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The Fight of His Life: Joe Louis's Battle for Freedom During World War II
by
Randy Roberts
Basic Books, 11/04/2025
During the 1930s and 1940s, no African American athlete commanded the spotlight more than heavyweight boxer Joe Louis. His 1938 knockout victory over ...
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Biography/Memoir
The Forget-Me-Not Library: A Novel
by
Heather Webber
St. Martin's Press, 11/04/2025
Juliet Nightingale is lucky to be alive. Months after a freak accident involving lightning, she's fully recovered but is left feeling that something ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Ganymedan
by
R.T. Ester
Solaris, 11/04/2025
Verden Dotnet made an easy living mixing drinks for the creator of all sentient tech in the galaxy—until he decided to kill the creator. Now ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Good Daughters: A Novel
by
Brigitte Dale
Pegasus Books, 11/04/2025
In 1912, three young women from wildly different backgrounds are bound together by their desire to have a say in their future.
Charlotte, ...
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Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects
by
Bee Wilson
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/04/2025
One August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson's feet: the same one she had used to bake her ...
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The Hidden City: Charles Lenox Mysteries #15
by
Charles Finch
Minotaur Books, 11/04/2025
It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last investigation. But a desperate letter from an old servant forces him to pick ...
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
by
Gerald Howard
Penguin Books, 11/04/2025
Malcolm Cowley is not a household name today, but the American literary canon would look very different without him. A prototypical "man of letters" ...
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Biography/Memoir
The King Must Die
by
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Saga Press, 11/04/2025
Fen's world is crumbling. Newearth, a once-promising planet gifted by the all-powerful alien Makers, now suffers from failed terraforming, leaving its...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Predicament: A Gabriel Dax Novel
by
William Boyd
Atlantic Crime, 11/04/2025
1963, Guatemala. The country is in turmoil, with a presidential election looming and a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and trade union leader ...
more
The Tortoise's Tale: A Novel
by
Kendra Coulter
Simon & Schuster, 11/04/2025
Snatched from her ancestral lands, a giant tortoise finds herself in an exclusive estate in southern California where she becomes an astute observer ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The War Beyond: The Hollow Covenant #2
by
Andrea Stewart
Orbit, 11/04/2025
Hakara risked her life to find her long-lost sister Rasha, only to lose her all over again. Now she and her Unanointed rebels hunt for the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Year of the Wind: A Novel
by
Karina Pacheco Medrano
Graywolf Press, 11/04/2025
Nina, a Peruvian writer in Spain on the eve of the pandemic, is pulled back into her nation's fraught history after a fleeting encounter with a woman ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Town & Country: A Novel
by
Brian Schaefer
Atria Books, 11/04/2025
The trendy rural town of Griffin has become a popular destination for weekenders and the city's second homeowners, but now a congressional race in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Under a Fire-Red Sky: A Novel
by
Geraldine McCaughrean
Flatiron Books, 11/04/2025
With World War II on their doorstep, the children of Greenwich, England, are being evacuated. But on the train meant to take them to safety, four of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder
by
Philip Marsden
Counterpoint Press, 11/04/2025
The ground beneath our feet is full of riches: the ocher that allowed prehistoric humans to paint on cave walls; the tin that drove the early ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel
by
E. Lockhart
Delacorte Press, 11/04/2025
The invitation arrives out of the blue.
In it, Matilda discovers a father she's never met. Kingsley Cello is a visionary, a reclusive artist. And ...
more
We're Not Safe Here
by
Rin Chupeco
Sourcebooks Fire, 11/04/2025
Wispy Falls is safe. The town motto is even "You'll be safe here!" But you aren't safe in the woods that surround the town. In the woods there are ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Merge: A Novel
by
Grace Walker
Mariner Books, 11/06/2025
How far would you go to never say goodbye?
Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer's. Her daughter Amelia, a once fiery and strong-willed ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
A Long Winter
by
Colm Toibin
Scribner, 11/11/2025
A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be ...
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Literary Fiction
Aphrodite: A Novel
by
Phoenicia Rogerson
Hanover Square Press, 11/11/2025
Aphrodite saw the gods on Mount Olympus and decided she wanted a piece of what they had. Only problem is, she's not a goddess, just a lowly being who'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
by
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger
Torrey House Press, 11/11/2025
The collection brings together twenty-two emerging and established writers whose poems and stories expand the imagination an. From a museum heist 177 ...
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Break Wide the Sea
by
Sara Holland
Wednesday Books, 11/11/2025
In the treacherous waters surrounding Kirkrell, sailors hunting magic whales live in fear of the finfolk--bloodthirsty sea fae who sink ships and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Carnaval Fever: A Novel
by
Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
Soft Skull Press, 11/11/2025
Ainhoa lives a protected life within the walls of her grandmother's house in the neighborhood of Limones. Surrounded by a gaggle of aunts who love, ...
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Literary Fiction
Daughter of the Otherworld: Gael Song #4
by
Shauna Lawless
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/11/2025
Over a hundred years after she went missing, Isolde, born to the family of a famous Irish king and a powerful immortal, inexplicably reappears.
Her...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Evensong
by
Stewart O'Nan
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/11/2025
The Humpty Dumpty Club is distraught when their powerhouse leader, Joan Hargrove, takes a bad fall down her stairs, knocking her out of commission. ...
more
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
by
Jen Percy
Doubleday, 11/11/2025
What does it mean to endure as a woman? Percy, who has written extensively on trauma responses and PTSD, revisits these subjects using her personal ...
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Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
by
John Blair
Princeton University Press, 11/11/2025
Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world's most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Listen: A Novel
by
Sacha Bronwasser
Penguin Books, 11/11/2025
In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris—even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program ...
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Lucky Girl: A Novel
by
Allie Tagle-Dokus
Tin House Books, 11/11/2025
Lucy Gardiner felt like she was put on earth to dance.
Amid the chaos of her Massachusetts upbringing―her loving, erratic brothers; her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Lucky Seed: A Novel
by
Justinian Huang
MIRA, 11/11/2025
The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties, emasculated uncles, scheming cousins, ...
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Next Time Will Be Our Turn
by
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Berkley Books, 11/11/2025
Izzy Chen is dreading her family's annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their ...
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Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World
by
William Rankin
Viking, 11/11/2025
Maps are ubiquitous in contemporary life—not just for navigation, but for making sense of our society, our environment, and even ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Terry Dactyl
by
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Coffee House Press, 11/11/2025
Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of ...
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The Burning Grounds: Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries #6
by
Abir Mukherjee
Pegasus Books, 11/11/2025
In The Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear.
The body is that of a ...
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism
by
Mikhail Zygar
Scribner, 11/11/2025
Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar was ten years old when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, after nearly ten years of research, he offers a timely ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Emergency: A Novel
by
George Packer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/11/2025
George Packer's bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With
The Emergency, he ...
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The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
by
David McWilliams
Henry Holt and Company, 11/11/2025
The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No innovation has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and changed the direction of our ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Land in Winter
by
Andrew Miller
Europa Editions, 11/11/2025
December 1962: In an English village deep in the West Country, two couples on neighboring farms begin their day. Local doctor Eric Parry, keeping ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Name on the Wall: A Novel
by
Hervé Le Tellier
Other Press, 11/11/2025
Struck by a name written on a facade of his new home, acclaimed author Hervé Le Tellier embarked on a quest to recover the history of André ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Pentecost Papers
by
Ferdinand Mount
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11/11/2025
His accomplices in this irresistible safari through the late modern world are two reformed alcoholics, the lovely and brilliant Lee 'Lethal' Thorold, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories
by
Barry Pearce
Cornerstone Press, 11/11/2025
The edgy enclave he fled haunts a South Side exile, upending his life. A boy who helps his father fake accidents for insurance claims reaches a ...
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The Silver Book: A Novel
by
Olivia Laing
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/11/2025
It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One, Nicholas, is a young artist, plausible, English, desperate. The other is Danilo Donati, the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Sunshine Man: A Novel
by
Emma Stonex
Viking, 11/11/2025
Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she's been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, ...
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The White Hot: A Novel
by
Quiara Alegria Hudes
One World, 11/11/2025
April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hide away in ...
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There Is No Antimemetics Division
by
qntm
Ballantine Books, 11/11/2025
They're all around us, hiding in plain sight.
One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Who Knows You by Heart: A Novel
by
C. J. Farley
William Morrow, 11/11/2025
Octavia Crenshaw, a Jamaican-American coder living in Manhattan, is broke, burned out, and haunted by her parents' deaths. Desperate to pay off some ...
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At Midnight Comes the Cry: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries, 10)
by
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Minotaur Books, 11/18/2025
It's Christmas time in Millers Kill, and Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne - newly resigned from his position as chief of ...
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Thrillers
Beasts of the Sea: A Novel
by
Iida Turpeinen
Little Brown & Company, 11/18/2025
In 1741, thirty-two-year-old naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller joins Captain Bering's Great Northern Expedition to scout out a sea route from Asia to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by
W. David Marx
Viking, 11/18/2025
Over the past twenty-five years, pop culture has suffered from a perplexing lack of reinvention. We've entered a cultural "blank space"—an era ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Dog Show: Poems
by
Billy Collins
Random House, 11/18/2025
Billy Collins's
Dog Show celebrates the joy of our canine best friends, honoring the love we feel for the animals who play such vital roles in our ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
by
Marissa van Uden
Violet Lichen, 11/18/2025
Featuring works by rising stars and established names, this anthology is an exploration of humanity's deep relationships with other species and of our...
more
Short Stories
Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
by
Ellen Huet
MCD, 11/18/2025
OneTaste hoped orgasm would change the world. Emerging in the midst of the late-aughts for-profit wellness boom, the company was unwavering in its ...
more
True Crime
Evil Bones: Temperance Brennan Novels #24
by
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 11/18/2025
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in the same...
more
Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
by
Tracy K. Smith
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/18/2025
Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been ...
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Poetry & Novels in Verse
Haven't Killed in Years
by
Amy K. Green
Berkley Books, 11/18/2025
Marin Haggerty, the daughter of a notorious serial killer, was only a child when they arrested her father. Ripped from her home and given a new ...
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How Girls Are Made
by
Mindy McGinnis
HarperCollins Publishers, 11/18/2025
Fallon is a fixer. From planning prom to organizing her college applications, she's got it all figured out…except for when her younger sister ...
more
I, Medusa: A Novel
by
Ayana Gray
Random House, 11/18/2025
Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents—both ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1971–2024
by
John Edgar Wideman
Scribner, 11/18/2025
John Edgar Wideman, renowned for his award-winning fiction and memoirs, first made waves in American literature with his sharp, insightful commentary....
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Leave It on the Track
by
Margot Fisher
Dutton for Young Readers, 11/18/2025
Morgan "Moose" Shaker barely survived the fire that killed her fathers in their beloved roller rink in small-town Utah. Now she has to move to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Mexico: A 500-Year History
by
Paul Gillingham
Atlantic Monthly Press, 11/18/2025
At the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Paul Gillingham writes, from its outset "Mexico was more profoundly, globally ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
My Ex-Husband's Ex-Husband: A Novel
by
Rachel Cohn, Melissa de la Cruz
Little A, 11/18/2025
Audrey and Ian were best friends―until they fell in love with the same man. To be precise, they fell in love with, married, and divorced the ...
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Literary Fiction
My Little Donkey: And Other Essays
by
Martha Cooley
Catapult, 11/18/2025
In 2021, in her mid-sixties, Martha Cooley moved with her husband from the United States to Castiglione del Terziere, a village in northernmost ...
more
P.S. You're the Worst: A Novel
by
Chloe Seager
William Morrow Paperbacks, 11/18/2025
Everyone knows the death card in a tarot reading isn't a literal death sentence. Well, everyone except Becky.
Becky is not doing well. Her dreaded ...
more
Slow Gods
by
Claire North
Orbit, 11/18/2025
My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself.
In telling my story, there are certain things I should perhaps lie about. I ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Bookshop Below
by
Georgia Summers
Redhook, 11/18/2025
If you want a story that will change your life, Chiron's bookshop is where you go. For those lucky enough to grace its doors, it's a glimpse into a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Botanist's Assistant
by
Peggy Townsend
Berkley Books, 11/18/2025
Plenty of people consider Margaret Finch odd. Six-feet-tall and big-boned, she lives alone in a small cabin in the woods, drives a 20-year-old truck, ...
more
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
by
Simon Winchester
Harper, 11/18/2025
What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Burning Library
by
Gilly Macmillan
William Morrow, 11/18/2025
On a frigid, windswept day in Scotland's Western Hebrides, Eleanor Bruton's body is discovered on the shore. To her family Eleanor was an ordinary ...
more
The Color of Hope
by
Danielle Steel
Delacorte Press, 11/18/2025
Following the unexpected death of her beloved husband, art gallery owner Sabrina Thompson finds herself adrift in their Malibu beach house. Her three ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Ferryman and His Wife: A Novel
by
Frode Grytten
Algonquin Books, 11/18/2025
Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, ...
more
Literary Fiction
The Pelican Child: Stories
by
Joy Williams
Knopf, 11/18/2025
"Night was best, for, as everyone knows, but does not tell, the sobbing of the earth is most audible at night." "Men are but unconscious machines and ...
more
Wheel of Wrath: The Fifth Realm #2
by
A. A. Vora
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 11/18/2025
Mayana is burning. Following the rupture of the barrier protecting the peaceful upper realm, soldiers from the lower realm of Malin invade and wage ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
To My Dearest Self
by
Nimna Vijay
Harper, 11/22/2025
Aditi always fought for everyone else-at home, at work, in love. But she never knew how to speak up for herself. And when heartbreak shatters her ...
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Romance
As Many Souls as Stars
by
Natasha Siegel
William Morrow, 11/25/2025
1592. Cybil Harding is a First Daughter. Cursed to bring disaster to those around her, she is trapped in a house with a mother paralyzed by grief...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Best Offer Wins: A Novel
by
Marisa Kashino
Celadon, 11/25/2025
Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Capitalism: A Global History
by
Sven Beckert
Penguin Press, 11/25/2025
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others,...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Disinheritance: The Rediscovered Stories
by
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Counterpoint Press, 11/25/2025
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala began publishing fiction in 1956 and continued to do so until her death in 2013.
Disinheritance showcases some of the finest of ...
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Family of Spies
by
Christine Kuehn
Celadon, 11/25/2025
It began with a letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story.
Your family. World War II. Nazi spies. Christine Kuehn was shocked and confused. ...
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Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
by
Carla Kaplan
Harper, 11/25/2025
Who could predict that a British aristocrat would so energize American antifascist and civil rights struggles that
Time magazine would crown...
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Biography/Memoir
